Visiting Artist Friday!

Dear parents of fourth and fifth graders,
This is a quick reminder that tomorrow we will host a visiting artist on our campus.
Hsi-Mei Yates,a local artist and Chinese ink painter, will be leading a fun but messy project.
Please send your child in with either an older dark shirt on or a t-shirt to pull over their clothes for this activity.
We could also use any volunteers willing to move wet (inky) paintings and assist students.
Thank you for helping make this program a success!


Mirinda Reynolds

Lower School Art

Fredericksburg Academy

Campout Day

Campout Day
Fri.(9:30-12:30)

For a culminating activity that has its ties to geography, literature, and science, we have decided to take our class outdoors! Below is a series of events that will take place on this day.

Make GORP
Set-up a good campsite, tent, gear, etc.
Nature hike
Picnic Lunch
Nature hike #2
Field games
Clean-up “leave no trace”

What should I bring???
Dress in layers
Hiking or tennis shoes
Empty backpack for…
Water bottles
Lunches/ we’ll get your hot lunch if ordered
Optional: camera, compass, binoculars

Time for the Outdoor Class!!!

Project minigoals

For the book project this month, the students will need to have either the project sheet or assignment book signed off that the goal was completed to 100%. They do not have to truck the pieces of the wind-sock in, which usually ends in complete destruction. The next big rally point is on Friday. See sheet.

We are completing the second novel of the year! Go Gary Paulson

Our Weather Station

In our science class we will be creating a complete weather station. We will collect and post our findings on this site every day. The data will be charted, graphed, and pondered, as well as compared twice each day. Here is what we have...

temperature
air pressure
wind strength and direction
humidity
barometric pressure
cloud identification

We will be masters of the weather-world.

What's up here.

Today we visited a great site about the author we are about to study. His name is Gary Paulson. We banned two words thus far "eat" and "big". In music we studied George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue(color). We are going to do another science experiment today involving paper towels and weights. Mini-goals are coming soon.

More to come.

Upcoming Events

Tuesday-Evans Math Quiz(counting $$$)
Thursday-Reading Mini-goal sheet due.
Thursday-Reading Genre Quiz
Thursday-Back-To-School-Night
Friday-History test(geography note cards)
Tuesday(9/22)Mini-goal 3 due

We are ready to ROLL!!!

Evans Class 4th

So our blog begins. Here we, the students, will add interesting facts about our fourth grade day. Today we are doing another science experiment dealing with paper towels. We are getting ready for our first Wordly Wise test tomorrow. We all are dressed up for our pictures. We hope that it doesn't rain again so we can go out to play Nation Ball! To be continued...

The Class