School News

Fourth Grade

Fourth grade is excited to have a new student join their class. They are very happy and made friends with Brayden very quickly. The students are working hard as we start the second semester of school. Fourth grade loves to work on group projects. The students just finished group state projects on the Atlantic states. Each student was assigned a state and as a group they presented their posters to the class. We are studying poetry. The class wrote a "free verse" poem about a pencil. Now each student is writing their own poems. We will soon start writing limericks to share with the class. February is full of holidays. We celebrated the 100th day of school with drawings of 100 objects which we put together as a quilt. In honor of President’s Day, we are graphing President Washington and President Lincoln. The students are getting their Valentines ready for the 14th. We will then begin to prepare for Lent with Ash Wednesday. If you walk down our hallway you can see the many projects that the fourth grade has completed.

Spanish

Grades 5-8 attend Spanish class twice a week. The fifth and sixth graders are working on animal names and their habitats. They are creating posters to reinforce these skills. The seventh grade students are beginning to identify classroom objects using Spanish vocabulary. Throughout this new unit they will identify objects, practice pronouncing the new vocabulary and begin translating information from Spanish to English. Eighth graders are working on expressing actions. They are learning how to answer and ask questions in Spanish and how to conjugate -ar verbs.