US Takes the Lead in the Fai-Tea

Girls, I will be out of town for a conference, but the US is winning!  Be sure to go on Manga High all week and accept the challenge! We are on a roll!  Let's keep up the momentum.  Also, the internet is working again, so maybe you will be able to work on the laptops tomorrow.  I hope so!  I will miss you, but work hard, do your best, and don't be too CHATTY!

The Brits vs. The Yanks

The Brits vs. The Yanks

The challenge is on!  Our class is on fire.  The girls have been active on Mangahigh.com since the beginning of the year.  This is a fabulous math site that allows the girls to work on many different concepts and levels. We have been so active that we have been chosen for a Fai-To several times.  This is when we compete with schools not only across the country, but also across the world!
That is the case now!  We have been invited to compete with an English school in a Fai-Tea.  Remember the good old Boston Tea Party....well, we're on!  We are competing with a school in Warwickshire.  I showed the girls the school website this morning, so they are raring to go.  Everything was going great until we lost internet access this afternoon, so their homework tonight is to work at the Fai-Tea at home!  Go Yanks!  Go Fourthies!

From Cupcakes to Garden, and Decades...What's This

The party started at 8:15....amidst squeals of delight, the girls scurried from classroom to classroom delivering their Valentines laden with lollipops, chocolate kisses, and various heart-shaped candies.  Creativity at its best...Valentines pouring from boxes decorated with Winston Churchill's words , or as an iPod, or with the top hits of the Fifties or as a Victory Garden...such flair.  Beautiful pink, white and green cupcakes, fruit cups, and flowers galore...what more could a Fourthie want or for that matter, a Fourthie teacher?  I know...a Fourthie mom devoted to health, fun, and the garden...one Russell Combs, equipped with juicer, apples, carrots, and kale....how green is that, how hip is that?

The girls were fascinated, and most of them tried some of the delicious, healthy juice.  Then, Russell, no stranger to our school garden, and all of us, trooped over there on this beautiful Valentine's Day to deposit the pulp in the compost... more learning, more climbing on bales of hay, much sunshine, and much laughing could be seen on Grove Avenue....just another day in the life of a St. Catherine's Fourthie. 

MLK Playing Soon in a School Near You

MLK Chapel - Monday, January 28

Hi Everyone,
Our chapel last Friday was postponed because of snow.  The good news is that we are rescheduled for Monday, January 28, at 8:30. The girls have worked very hard reading, researching, and planning this chapel.  They are such a creative and enthusiastic class, and their presentation proves it!  As well, they  designed film trailers to advertise this chapel!

All Kinds of Christmas Fun

On Parents' Night I told you that the band would rock and roll during Christmas week, and they did!  It is remarkable because they started band in September. The girls did a fabulous job, and we all loved it!  Today was a lot of fun also, as the girls in strings prepared for the service, the choir practiced, and the shepherds and ensemble got ready for our beautiful gift service.  Rebecca Merrick is truly a gifted music teacher.  The girls sounded like angels, and their wonderful teacher was fighting the flu.  You would never have guessed it.

Enjoy some of the pictures that I have taken over the course of the week.  I hope that all of you have a great rest and a Merry, Merry Christmas!

 Some of my former students singing Christmas carols today with their guitar playing teacher, Lewis James!

Roberts' Fourthies Have Some Fun

Hi Everyone,

Christmas spirits are high in the Fourthie classrooms!  You can hear the faint sound of Christmas songs everywhere, and then again, not so faint, as it was today.  The girls made and decorated stockings for our "fireplace." Glitter was abundant, music was loud, and a good time was had by all.

The choir girls are practicing hard for Friday's Gift Service at St. Stephen's.  The service will be held at 10:00.  Immediately after the service, you may pick your daughter up in the classroom.  Every girl is participating in the service.  We have the choir, strings, the readers, Mary, a king, the shepherds...we are all involved and having a wonderful time during this special season.

I am posting some pictures of activities today and recently.

See you on Friday,

Pam

 The stockings were hung...........

by the chimney with care!