Last Week of the 2024-2025 School Year!

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• Community Building
• Morning Meeting
• VI March
• 5th Grade Pledge
• Move-Up Day (visiting 6th grade classroom)!
• Reading Letters to Self From the Beginning of the School Year!
• Field Day!
• Class Superlatives Voting (awards in the "5th grade yearbook" from Ms. Hill)

• Math
• Using a Protractor to Draw Angles & Triangles (Right, obtuse, acute)
• Using a Compass to Draw Circles with a Specific Radius/Diameter
• More +, -, x, and dividing with positive and negative numbers!
• End of Year Escape Room!

• Cambridge Global Perspectives
• Dream Vacation Research, Slideshows, & Presentations!

• Civil Rights Unit (Social Studies/Literacy)
• Poem/Song Project

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• THANKS FOR A FABULOUS YEAR (2 YEARS FOR MOST!)
• Reminder: Tomorrow is a 12:30pm dismissal & there is no aftercare!

• ENCORE! A Summer Theater Experience kicks off this Monday, and we’re calling on our amazing GHCDS community to help spread the word and fill our camp with creative energy!

  This is an incredible opportunity for young performers—Matilda offers wonderful roles for ALL ages (8–16), and we’ve built a truly enriching program that blends acting, singing, movement, and stagecraft.

  As this is our first year, your support now will help us establish this as an annual tradition—something we can grow and build for years to come. A strong showing this summer will ensure we can continue offering this kind of meaningful experience to future students.

  Ms. Kiomie, Ms. Cereyna Bougouneau, Mr. Hayut, Ms. Forno, Ms. Mares, and Mr. Barnwell have poured their hearts into designing this program, and we’d LOVE to see as many of your smiling faces as possible on stage with us!

  Please help us spread the word—share with your friends, neighbors, and anyone who might be interested! Let’s make this first summer an unforgettable one.  SIGN UP TODAY!

• SUMMER TUTORING AVAILABLE WITH FORMER GHCDS 5th GRADE TEACHER, TONYA FITZGERALD

FIELD DAY & BEACH DAY PHOTOS

6.5.25 (+Concert Photos!!)

      Ask Your Child About...

• Community Building
• Morning Meeting
• VI March
• 5th Grade Pledge
• Spring Concert - well done students & music department!
• BEACH DAY TOMORROW 10-2pm @ Mermaid Beach, Buccaneer

• Math
• Multiplying & Dividing Positive and Negative Numbers
• Final Retakes (if needed)

• Social Studies
• Planning a Dream Vacation - Global Perspectives Challenge
• Girls' Puberty Lesson Part 2 (Boys will be next week)

• Read Aloud
• Completing the book, Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You, Adapted by Sonja Cherry-Paul

• Civil Rights Unit (Social Studies/Literacy)
• LGBTQ+, Education, Current Movements
• Finishing Hidden Figures

ANNOUNCEMENTS

• BEACH DAY: TOMORROW 10-2pm!
• Move-Up Day: Tues. June 10th (during school hours - parents/families do not attend)
• LS Field Day: Wed. June 11th @1pm 
• SUMMER TUTORING AVAILABLE WITH FORMER GHCDS 5th GRADE TEACHER, TONYA FITZGERALD

SPRING CONCERT PHOTOS

This Week & Last Week!

     Ask Your Child About...

• Community Building
• Morning Meeting
• VI March
• 5th Grade Pledge
• Friday Gathering - Bossy R! By: First Grade
• GAINS Lesson from Ms. Bird

• Math
• Completing May Number Corner Calendar on Plotting Coordinate Points (Mumford Mole Story!)
• Completing Unit 5 - Multiplication & Division Involving Fractions
• Sharing & Grouping Division Problems
• Unit Review Jeopardy
• Reviewing Classifying Quadrilaterals
• Last Unit Assessment
• Starting to work with positive and NEGATIVE integers (adding and subtracting)

• Science/Social Studies
• Continuing Last Science Unit: Chemical Reactions & Properties of Matter Unit (Dissolving & Particulate Nature of Matter Exploration and Properties of Matter - Acids - Exploration) ---- Hands-on Activity will be next week
• Sugar Project Group Presentations
• Science End of Year Survey
• Puberty Lesson (Girls and Boys Split)

• Read Aloud
• Reading Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You, Adapted by Sonja Cherry-Paul

• Literacy
• Fantasy Unit Reading Assessment
• Completing Graphic Novel Writing Unit - cover page & COMIC-CON!!!

• Civil Rights Unit (Social Studies/Literacy)
• Reading & Boxes & Bullets Notes on Influential Individuals During: Colonial America, Underground Railroad, Slavery, Civil War, Athletes, WWII, INventors/Science/NASA (starting to watch Hidden Figures)

Announcements - SAVE THE DATE FOR END OF YEAR ACTIVITIES:

• Puberty Lesson: Part 2 for STUDENTS will be Next Week
• COMIC-CON: Thanks to all who were able to make it! It was a successful event!

• Beach Day: Friday June 6th @ Buccaneer - More Details to Come
• 4th-6th Grade Art Show: Wed. June 4th (4-630pm) and after the Spring Concert 
• LS Spring Concert: Thurs. June 5th @8:45am
  
• Move-Up Day: Tues. June 10th (during school hours - parents/families do not attend)
• LS Field Day: Wed. June 11th @1pm TENTATIVE (could be the 10th)
• SUMMER TUTORING AVAILABLE WITH FORMER GHCDS 5th GRADE TEACHER, TONYA FITZGERALD