In language arts this week, students read Chapters 43-49 in The Tale of Despereaux. They also completed comprehension questions in their packet. We will finish the book next week and have our final Book Club meeting on Wednesday. We also finished learning the vocabulary words from the novel, and our test on those will be next Friday.
We also spent lots of time outlining and writing paragraphs for our research reports. On Thursday we used a tool in Google docs to generate our bibliographies. Students also had fun designing cover pages for their reports.
In social studies, we read about the Second Continental Congress and the Battle of Bunker Hill.
On Tuesday, we celebrated Amelia’s 11th birthday!
Highlights of the week were Monday’s yearbook distribution and, of course, Friday’s Field Day. We gathered in Brown Gym and watched each 8th grader receive their personalized copy of the book. K-7 students were excited to get their copies back in their classrooms.
The school spirit at Ensworth is unmatched, and 4th grade’s participation in Field Day with the older students is a rite of passage. We had a beautiful day, lots of fun, great competition, and a victory for the Black Team. Congrats to Penny for breaking a record in the med ball toss. (She threw 31’11” and the record was in the neighborhood of 26′.) Congrats, too, to Samuel’s 4×100 relay team who also broke a record set just last year! (My assignment was to chaperone the Orange girls, so I didn’t have many opportunities to be with the boys.) The parents also got to play a little Newcomb against their daughters!
Miss Earhart's Class 
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