This past week, 4th graders read five chapters in The Tale of Despereaux. We finished Book the Third, held our Book Club meeting, and began Book the Fourth. Thank you to all our families for bringing in yummy snacks to accompany our conversation.
We also learned several new vocabulary words from the second half of the novel.
Of course, we spent more time working on our research about famous Americans. Some are wrapping up note-taking and beginning to highlight and organize notes. We all took a look at students’ speeches from the past. With a framework to follow, everyone wrote a rough draft of their speech, met with me, and copied their final draft onto a notecard.
In social studies, we had a lot of fun with a tax simulation. With a few students playing the parts of the monarch, the Parliament, and the tax collector, everyone else got to experience the frustration of the colonists as they were taxed ‘unfairly.’ Smarties were taken away for such reasons as wearing glasses, sporting certain colored socks, having nail polish.
We also read about the Intolerable Acts, Patrick Henry’s fiery speech, and the First Continental Congress. Next week we’ll review the road to the Revolution and take a quiz before the war breaks out.
In Morning Meeting, we enjoyed played Scattergories, Mystery Winker and more!
Thursday night, I had the pleasure of attending the dress rehearsal of dance recital. It was AMAZING!! I so proud of all my student-dancers past and present. What a great show!
Friday’s assembly was a concert from the high school’s chamber singers and the orchestra.
Miss Earhart's Class 
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