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This post will be a little backwards this week… we have some really important things coming up NEXT WEEK so want to make sure they are seen first on this post in case anyone has any questions!


IMPORTANT NEWS ABOUT
NEXT WEEK FOR FOURTH GRADE:


African American Living History Museum week is among us for fourth grade!!! We’ve worked hard to prepare our speeches and will now have two opportunities to share. Students who can attend (optional) are invited to join us on Tuesday night for the PTO meeting and present their projects there. This means costume if you have one and you will share your speech! This starts at 6 pm. We will also display their posters if they would like to.

We will do the same on Thursday the 28th during the school day from 8-10! Families are invited to join them if they would like (totally optional if you did not get a chance to come during the PTO meeting and would like to see us in action)! More announcements will come out via remind to remind you of events. Feel free to ask any questions!

Fourth grade also has a FIELD TRIP on Friday to the Virginia Museum of Culture and History. This field trip is FREE– students only had to return a signed permission slip. We are in need of a parent chaperone if anyone is interested in joining us! We will be gone from 9 until around 12:30. Students will eat lunch at school when we return so they can bring their lunch or pick up lunch from the cafeteria when we get back!

ALSO! IMPORTANT NEWS FOR EVERYONE!

FOURTH GRADE:

THIS WEEK: In fourth grade we started discussing cause and effect relationships in reading. In Writing, students continued to reviewed prepositions and prepositional phrases this week. Prepositions are words that link nouns and phrases in sentences. We also celebrated the 100th day of school by writing about what we thought the world would be like in 100 years or what we want our lives to have been like by the time we are 100. This writing will be on display in the hall starting next week if you have time to check it out! In VA Studies, we wrapped up our study of VS6 A New Nation. We learned about George Washington, James Madison, George Mason, and Thomas Jefferson and the impact they had on Virginia’s history and the history of the United States.

NEXT WEEK In VA Studies we will move on to VS7– The Civil War! Students will learn about the disagreements between the north (Union) and the south (Confederacy). Also, students will learn about the events that led up to the Civil War & the people involved with these events. Our class will have a discussion about how West Virginia was created, too! Here is the VS-7 Study Guide to review and study.

FIFTH GRADE:

THIS WEEK: We continue our study of the Northeast and wrapped up our week with a northeast states and capitals quiz. Students also continued working on their collage projects. They have been working SO HARD on these and I am so proud of their work. They really had to become experts on a state to represent the most important parts of their history and culture in the collage. This also allowed their creativity to shine. In English, we focused on quotation marks. Students wrote scripts, filmed, produced, and edited silent movies that used quotation marks to explain the plot. THESE WERE AMAZING, and the kids loved getting to watch each other’s movies on Friday!

NEXT WEEK: In reading we will continue to look at figurative language! Last week we covered similes, metaphors, and hyperbole. We will continue looking at these while also adding others like alliteration and onomatopoeia! In SS we will wrap up our study of the northeast. A study guide for a brief quiz will come home on Monday!

NEWS AND REMINDERS:

  • Panther Prowl: Hermitage HS is hosting a Panther Prowl (5K/Fun Run) on March 23rd.  Flyers were sent home this week. Click here for the flyer.
  • Career Day: Ms. Bushey is seeking presenters for Career Day on March 27th. Click here for the flyer and her if you are interested.
  • Tuesday February 26 @ 6 PM — PTO Meeting where fourth grade students are invited to share AAA Wax Museum in costume
  • Thursday February 28 8-10 AM– Fourth Grade School Wide Wax Museum; students share projects in costume
  • Friday March 1 — Field Trip to Virginia Museum of History and Culture

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