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What an exciting week full of fun and friendly competition. The girls were so creative with their outfits for Spirit Week and the Cheer Rally was a huge success. Click here to see more pictures from this week.
In math, we talked about adding and subtracting related fractions and adding mixed numbers with related fractions. Ask your daughter what a "related" fraction means. This unit is very heavy on word problems, which we will start discussing on Tuesday or Wednesday. The girls took notes in their composition notebooks and played a dice/spinner game to practice these skills. I will be placing a greater emphasis on taking detailed and accurate notes. The ultimate goal is for the girls to actually use their notes to help them study for tests or quizzes! Hopefully, you will start to see an improvement in your daughter's notes over the next few weeks. Also, there will be more frequent assessments for each unit moving forward. The units in Singapore Math are VERY long, and I think this will help me (and the girls) get a better feel for how well they understand the concepts long before the review week.
These are the concepts, which will be covered on this Friday's quiz:
1. Adding and subtracting related fractions
2. Adding and subtracting mixed numbers with related fractions
In Language Arts and History, the girls continued working on their persuasive essays. I added a fun twist and introduced a project where the girls will be choosing a form of persuasive advertising to go with their papers. We read about the Women's Suffrage Movement, and looked at several primary documents depicting that time period. The girls saw examples of skits, picket lines, persuasive letters, banners, billboards, songs, parades/marches, petitions, buttons/ribbons, political cartoons, posters, speeches, and much more. They chose a form of advertising, and they will read their essays and present their advertising to the class. The girls are incredibly excited about this project.
We have a new winner this week in the Prefix/Root Word Challenge! Congratulations to Elizabeth Thurmond!! She found 59 words that contained the prefixes: dis-, anti-, de-, com, con-, co-, contra-, and counter-. Way to go Elizabeth!
We also reviewed parts of speech. The girls took notes in their composition notebook and we listened to a fun song.
The girls had their first two Spanish classes this week. Please see below for a link to the projects the girls completed with Mrs. Dorian. She is very proud of their efforts.
1. Maeve Connell:
2. Sirena DiGiacomo:
3. Paige Durand
4. Serpell Edmunds
5. Harper Guare
6. Ruthie Huffman
7. Sophia Iuorno
8. Julianna King
9. Chloe Kurzawa
10. Annabel Mayer
11. Abigail McKay
12. Mary Mitchell
13. Grace Morrell
14. Ava Jane Orecchio
15. Mary Michael Spiller
16. Ryann Sutton
17. Elizabeth Thurmond
18 Holt Williams
Reminders and General Information
Information needing a parent response is highlighted.
**Parent How-To Videos for accessing Quia, Newsela, and That Quiz!
**Please bring your food donations for Shepherd's Way to school between 2:30-4:00 on Tuesday. Nira has graciously offered to take it downtown that afternoon. I was able to go and deliver food for Mrs. Cavallo's class last week, and I am really looking forward to spending time there on Wednesday.
**The Family Life class will be taught by Nurse Blanton in February. Here is the letter from Dr. Kapetanis, which outlines more information about this event.
**Homework- for family planning
**Carpool Helper(s)- Serpell will represent our class.
**Special Week- Paige
Class Leadership Week of 1/28/19
Ambassadors/Flag Raisers- Paige and Mary
Girls: Your blog question is...what concepts does the math quiz on Friday cover? Also, who won the Prefix challenge this week? Put both answers in one response. Post your answers here.
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