BEE a Speller in the SPELLING BEE

December 4, 2015

Dear Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Grade Parents,

St. Catherine’s School has registered for the Scripps National Spelling Bee, and all fourth, fifth and sixth grade students are invited to participate. This is an optional activity and will take place after school from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in the Lower School Assembly Room. The official spelling bee rounds will begin on Wednesday, January 13, 2016. If we do not have a winner on January 13, spelling rounds will continue each Wednesday after that until a winner is declared.

St. Catherine’s panel of judges is made up of Lower School and Middle School teachers, and Annie Kapetanis will be the caller/pronouncer.

If your daughter would like to participate, please return the form below by December 11. Once we receive the form, we will provide your daughter with a study guide. We are very excited to offer the girls this opportunity. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any questions.

Warmly,

Debbie Staley                                                                                   Annie Kapetanis, Ed.D.

Interim Director of Middle School                                                Director of Lower School

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My daughter will participate in the spelling bee competition. We understand that the judges’ decision is final.

Student’s Name: _________________________________

Student’s Grade: ________________________________

Your Name: _____________________________________

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Be Your Christmas Selfie

....and this class is!
We thought this would be the perfect theme for our classroom door.  We are moving into fun Christmas activities in the classroom, but our chief focus, at this moment, is still learning!  The girls are finishing up their presentations, some of which, includes a technology piece.  Most have chosen to use Google Drive or Google Slide, but they are all learning a lot about their subject.  In Math, we are finishing up Lesson 3, where the primary focus is on the use of parentheses and true and false sentences.  Slowly, but surely, they are gaining a clearer understanding of this concept, which you probably learned in sixth grade!

If your daughter is experiencing difficulty with grammar, which is to be expected at this age, please encourage her to utilize the many grammar sites located on the Fourthie Website.  They present a fun way to learn about nouns and verbs, which is what we are doing in class.

Study Link Page 61, NOT page 71!!!!

Sorry, girls, that was a Math Journal page!  If you already did page 71 in your Study Link, don't worry, you can do page 61 in your Study Link at school tomorrow!

Kickoff to Christmas at Dr. Scheckelhoff's House

Chillin' at the Scheckelhoff's!

Kindergarten and Roberts' Fourthies Engage in Creative Problem Solving

Yes, everyone, Mrs. Alexander's class and our class meet almost every Thursday morning to engage in a brilliant, innovative way of problem solving.  It is quite amazing to see these two different age groups interact to figure out the role of each cubelet.  From this discovery, they can make the cubelets do some pretty cool things!  Sorry! Please excuse these first two videos. For some reason, I am having trouble deleting them. They're very short.  Make sure to ask your daughters about cubelets!

 

Upcoming Events!

Dates to Remember

By November 23    Please bring canned goods to school for St. Stephen's Food Pantry
Gold- White for Good     Challenge!  Which team will bring the most food?

Book Fair    our class time    Wednesday, December 2  2:10 -2:30

Math Expo  Tuesday, November 24  9:00-10:25
St. Christopher's Fourth Grade will be our guests for a fun-filled, activities-filled morning.

Look for hard copies in your daughter's folder for more information about the Food Drive and the Book Fair!

The Fourthies Hit Mount Vernon

My favorite picture of our day at Mount Vernon is this one!  It doesn't get any better than rocking on the front porch of our first President's home with a view of the Potomac River...the best view in the country!  What a beautiful day we had! I hope that the girls told you all about George's strategy to win the war through the use of intelligence and spies. He was quite inventive. Make sure and ask them about the theater where his traits of character and leadership were flashed across the ceiling, and lastly, you might ask them where he also held meetings...quite unusual!  You might be surprised!