The girls enjoyed a fun Friday with doughnuts and loveys as they celebrated their first twenty-five compliments! They are on their way to the next twenty-five.
Everyday our girls innovate. They are creating, exploring, collaborating, and thinking critically in all that they do. The girls were treated to a presentation by Danielle Feinberg. She is a Director of Photography specializing in Lighting and Pixar Animation Studios. There were many "aha moments" when the girls realized the similarity between Ms. Feinberg's demonstration and what they are learning with Mrs. Hamilton-Dixon during their technology design classes. Today, we got to experience a little of the Middle School's Innovation Day. The Fourthies were invited to visit with the middle schoolers and their guests and see the varied products created with Littlebits. Below is a quick video explanation of Littlebits.
Doughnuts were featured in math this week. Function machines were introduced; ask your daughter about Mighty Doughnut Head.
The girls used their innovative spirits and created their own doughnut function machine. They wrote about multiplication, explored factors and multiples using rainbows, and problem solved a Halloween without candy. Fact Checks will focus on the times tables for the next several weeks. Next week's check will be the 4 x table. Practice really does make progress! You can check your daughter's fact fluency by logging into her That Quiz account.
We have a couple of short weeks so Wordly Wise and spelling (list 4) will be assessed during the week of October 23rd. Wordly Wise was reinforced in many creative ways this week. The girls created movies in GoAnimate and made breaking news banners. Newsela is strengthening the girls critical reading skills. I encourage the girls to take advantage of this fantastic resource and read, read, read current events from around the world.
Wednesday's writing lab got us in the Halloween spirit. Ask your daughter about the witch's spell. Halloween writing will be posted outside the classroom for all to enjoy.
Fall conferences begin next week. Please refer to the sign-up schedule if you are unsure of your date/time.
Girls..... Your blog question is......
What are the two Wordly Wise words used in the featured Breaking News?
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