Snow, School, Snow, School....

Girls, remember to give the Foreign Language letter to your parents!  This is an exciting and important decision that you are making--the choice of whether to take Spanish or Chinese next year!
The paper has to be returned by January 25, 2018.

What a crazy whirlwind of school, snow, school, snow...we have had, but in spite of this, we have taken advantage of every minute of academic time we could.  In math, we are adding and subtracting mixed fractions with unlike denominators.  You may notice that Singapore suggests that computation be horizontal as opposed to vertical...probably different from what you learned!  In their written reflections the girls expressed a lot of curiosity about decimals, plus we are on the second unit of fractions, and they are a little tired of just fractions, so we deviated from the course this week.  Last night they looked for examples of uses for decimals.  You may have helped them do this, but I bet you would not have expected how truly excited they were in class today.  They LOVED it and asked for more homework like that. As I have said before...this is quite the unusual class!!!  Enthusiasm for everything!

Health and Wellness Month

Because this week the focus has been on the MIND, and the ways we can keep our minds healthy,
the Wellness Committee made a special labyrinth for the girls to experience. It is located in on the terrace on the Green.  They were invited to move along the path and meditate or think creatively or spiritually...pretty cool for the girls. This morning we had a total school Shouting Prayer on the Green. Girls who have gone to Shrine Mont have experienced this, but others have not.  Ask your daughters about it!

Your girls are bringing home letters today from the PE Department with wellness tips for the girls to try at home.  Great ideas!

Lots of action in M06....

I think that you know what this is!  Look familiar!  Say hello to your younger self and welcome back to the 80s!

Gold/White Cheer Rally Practice Tomorrow

Girls, remember how much fun you had last year practicing for the Gold/White Cheer Rally last year? Well, it's that time of year again, specifically tomorrow morning!

The LS girls will have Gold/White cheer practices tomorrow morning (1/19) and next Tuesday morning (1/23) from 7:30-7:55 AM.  Gold Team will be in the LSAR and White Team will be in the LSMPR.


When you come to school tomorrow, please go directly to one of these rooms and have some fun learning the cheers!

Another snow day.....maybe

What a wild and funny way to start 2018...lots of snow days and frigid weather!  Girls, you have your "marching orders" for work!  Remember to do your Wordly Wise and Spelling.  You have the assignments written down.  Also, don't forget to finish your math classwork from today, and you have some work for tonight.  Make sure to check the blog for more math work.  If we are out more than one day, I may have to add a little more!  Sorry!

You are doing a great job learning about fractions...so great that we are starting work with unlike denominators.  Soon we will be heading into decimals, a topic that you have been begging to learn.
I love your enthusiasm!

Stay in touch with your fellow readers over the next couple of days, and be prepared for a corresponding assignment when you return!

I hope that we get enough snow that you can sled and have fun, and we can write some "snow stories"!