Update

 

                                We've got spirit, yes we do!

Exciting news: Children's book illustrator Angeli Rafer is visiting the lower school on Friday, March 28! She will be speaking to the fourthies from 9:30 - 10:30 in the library. If you are interested in pre-ordering a book for her to sign on the day of her visit, please visit this link to learn more.

Technology Update from Mrs. Kortas

Chinese Update from Mrs. Dorian 

In math this week, the girls worked hard to measure angles, and define/identify different types of triangles. They put their skills to use during a fun project! 

 

During reading this week, we continued reading about inspiring African Americans in history to celebrate Black History Month. The girls created an accordion book to highlight their top 4 people. These books will come home next week!

Reminders:

Carpool Helper: Ellie

Special Week: Andi 

March 6: Wordly Wise Dress up Day

March 7: Dismissal at noon for Spring Break 

We will be in full 4th-grade musical mode when we return from spring break! The 4th-grade musical is a special tradition where the Fourthies perform for the senior girls. I am including our rehearsal schedule HERE to help limit appointments and absences during these times. Thank you for your support! 

 

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I am proud of the girls' hard work over the snow days. Everyone completed the assigned work! Thank you for your support at home and here's to a normal week next week!

We will be in full 4th-grade musical mode when we return from spring break! The 4th-grade musical is a special tradition where the Fourthies perform for the senior girls. I am including our rehearsal schedule HERE to help limit appointments and absences during these times. Thank you for your support!

As mentioned in yesterday's email, we have rescheduled the PBL Culmination to Tuesday, February 25 from 10:30 - 11:00 am, starting in the Lower School Assembly Room.

Next week is a school-wide spirit week ending with a Gold/White Cheer Rally next Friday, February 28. Here is the schedule for dressing up and the practices.

 

Carpool Helper: Genevieve

Special Week: 

February 25: Rescheduled 4th Grade PBL Culmination from 10:30 - 11:00 starting in the Lower School Assembly Room - Please join us!

March 6: WW Dress Up Day

 

Update

 

We celebrated friendships and love today! Happy Valentine's Day to all.

We will be in full 4th-grade musical mode when we return from spring break! The 4th grade musical is a special tradition where the Fourthies perform for the senior girls. I am including our rehearsal schedule HERE to help limit appointments and absences during these times. Thank you for your support!

We have spent much of this week finalizing our PBL project on ocean animal adaptations. I am really proud of how hard the girls have worked on this. We look forward to showcasing our work at the PBL Culmination on Thursday, February 20 from 10:30 - 11:00 am. In their binders, the girls have an invitation that they created for you on Canva!

As we wrapped up Flora and Ulysses this week, we were inspired by Ulysses' passion for poetry. The girls began working on a Poet-Tree project. The first type of poetry we reviewed was haiku. See if your daughter can tell you what makes a haiku unique and the theme of her haikus.

In math we continued with our geometry unit. We practiced measuring angles with protractors. The highlight of the week for most was completing our first Leaping Numbers Challenge. Ask your daughter for the details!

Upcoming cheer rally practices and spirit week information!

Carpool Helper: Lizzy

Special Week: 

February 17: Presidents' Day-No school

February 20: 4th Grade PBL Culmination from 10:30 - 11:00 starting in the Lower School Assembly Room - Please join us!

February 21: WW Dress Up Day

Check out this week's riddle!

 

 

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Please see some important health updates from our amazing lower school nurse! 

So much of our time this week was dedicated to the PBL (project-based learning) project. The girls continue to impress me with their creativity. We are exploring the question how are different adaptations critical to survival in specific ocean zones? The girls worked hard on their writing portion of the project this week.

In math this week we began a new unit in math on geometry. We learned about rays, line segments, lines, and points. We reviewed important vocabulary and identified different angles. Next week we will practice our protractor skills. 

We are just about finished with our current novel Flora and Ulysses and the girls are getting a kick out of the cynical main character and her best friend squirrel. 

 

Check out an update from Mrs. Kortas 

Carpool Helper: Cora

Special Week: Pearl

February 17: Presidents' Day-No school

February 20: 4th Grade PBL Culmination from 10:30 - 11:00 starting in the Lower School Assembly Room - Please join us!

February 21: WW Dress Up Day

Check out this week's riddle!

 

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We welcomed our 8th grade buddies to kick off "day 0" on Wednesday. The girls read books, colored bookmarks and rolled dice to answer icebreaker questions. Afterwards, we met in the LSAR to learn all about the Chinese New Year from Mrs. Dorion. It was a busy afternoon full of fun projects and games!

Check out an update from Mrs. Kortas 

We are working hard on the 4th grade PBL project and could use some supplies from home. If you have any of the following and can send them in, we would really appreciate it! 

• paper towel/toilet paper rolls
• cardboard boxes (cereal/delivery)
• bubble wrap
• egg cartons
  

Carpool Helper: Caroline

Special Week: Cora

Switch to Chinese for the remainder of the year!

2/3: Wear red on Monday to celebrate the Chinese New Year

February 20: 4th Grade PBL Culmination from 10:30 - 11:00 starting in the Lower School Assembly Room - Please join us!

February 21: WW Dress Up Day

 

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Valentine's Day is right around the corner and we will have a class celebration on Friday, February 14. In class, we will decorate gift bags to hold their valentines. You do not need to have your daughter make a box or bag at home! They need to make a card for each student and here is a list of our classmates. 

The girls have added journaling each morning as part of their morning routine. They were so excited to received a little journal to call their gratitude journal and are enjoying reflecting on what they are most grateful for as we begin the day.

We had a nice, short week together. We have wrapped up our math unit and will review the skills before taking the assessment next week.

In social studies, we started our unit on the American Civil War. As we study this period, I am reading the girls another Ranger in Time book called A Long Road to Freedom. Earlier this year, we read another book from this series as we studied Westward Expansion. Because these novels come from the perspective of Ranger, a golden retriever, it helps to soften the severity of what happened during these times in history.

January 29 is an unnumbered day due to Upper School Conferences and it is also a Gold/White spirit day. Lower School has planned a fun-filled day that includes a big/little sister activity, special treats, a rotation of activities in the gym, and a viewing of the movie Frozen by kindergarten to grade 4 students. Girls are welcome to come in gold/white colors without accessories, but be mindful of their attires so they can participate in all the activities that have been planned in the gym. They may wear jeans or sweatpants with their team color. Girls will have a chance to earn points for their respective teams. As a reminder, the girls need to wear sneakers to participate in the gym activities just as they do for PE days. January 29 should be a fun winter day! 

Carpool Helper: Olivia T.

Special Week: Olivia S.

Switch to Chinese for the remainder of the year!

Jan. 29: Unblocked Day/Spirit Fun Day

February 20: 4th Grade PBL Culmination from 10:30 - 11:00 starting in the Lower School Assembly Room - Please join us!

February 21: WW Dress Up Day

update

 

We were back in full swing this week! This week, we launched into our 4th grade PBL (project based learning) project. Before Christmas, the girls studied ocean animals, ocean zones, and animal adaptations. On Wednesday, we zoomed with our first guest expert, Lila Wood's aunt, Dr. Philips. She is a scientist who lives in Oregon and studies zebrafish. We were all amazed by what she shared. Ask your daughter's to share the most interesting thing she learned. Next week, we will zoom with another guest expert. In the classroom, we are researching and making observations. We will complete this project towards the end of February.

Please mark your calendar for our PBL Culmination on Thursday, February 20, from 10:30 - 11:00. We will begin in the Lower School Assembly Room. We invite you to come and see what your daughter has learned!

 

Unit 4 in math covers number and shape patterns. We will move quickly through this unit and will finish by the end of the month. We continue to 

review 2 digit by 2 digit multiplication and long division. 

 

 

In reading, we started a new novel Flora and Ulysses. It's about a cynical girl named Flora and a new found friend that happens to be a squirrel. We are focusing on using context clues to define vocab throughout the book as well as using evidence from the text to answer comprehension questions. 

 

With many out of town today and this weekend, I decided to send home Friday Folders next Friday instead of today. Be on the lookout! 

*After the long weekend, we will switch to Chinese for the remainder of the school year.

*The girls will take their spelling quiz on a second set of homophones on 1/23 and their Wordly Wise List 8 quiz will be Friday, 1/24.

 

Reminders:

Carpool Helper: Ava Grace

Special Week: Olivia S.

Jan. 20&21: No school

Feb. 20th 10:30-11: PBL Culmination in LSAR 

Girls answer the riddle here!