9.6.2024

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• Community Building 
• Morning Meeting
• VI March
• 5th Grade Pledge
• Growth Mindset Videos, Cont.
• Inspirational Video - Be a Mr. Jensen (tapping in class turned drummer)
• Breathing Video to Calm Emotions
• Team Building Games with 4th-6th Grades
• Forehead Dots
• Trust Walk
• What Time is it Mr. Wolf
• Stuck in the Mud Tag Game
• Human Knot
• Friday Gathering
• New Student & Teacher Intros
• Welcomed Abdullah in our 5th grade class this week!
• First Choice Time!

• Math
• What a Math Class Looks & Sounds Like 
• Reviewing Multiplication Strategies
• Playing the Product Game & Making Mathematical Observations About It
• September Calendar Pattern - Time, Money, & Fractions
• Addition Strategies Problem String

• Literacy
• BFG, by Roald Dahl
• Alma, by Juana Martinez-Neal
• Taking the Upper Elementary Spelling Inventory
• Sharing Name Stories
• Working on Book Cover Canvas'
• Decorating Reading & Writing Notebooks
• Starting Unit 1 in Reading - Analyzing Themes
• Goal Setting
• Pre-Assessment
• Wordle Challenges
• Finish the Proverb Team Challenge

Announcements:

• Schedule Note - The 2nd P.E. day listed is SWIM DAY
• Classroom Supplies
• Some of you expressed interest in donating more supplies. We could use Sharpies (any/all size & colors including metallic) & plasticware. Thanks to anyone able/willing to donate!
• If you have plants in pots or you would like to donate soil/seeds for our planters, we would welcome the donations! We are planning to make bush tea with what we grow!
• Thursday, September 12th 4-5pm
• Lower School Parent Information Night
• Begins in the Pavilion and then you will meet your children in our classroom
• Children will be watched on the slab while you are welcomed in the Pavilion
• COLOR DAYS CONTINUE
• Please have your child try to wear the day's color to help our ELC kiddos learn their colors!
• 9/9: Green Day
• 9/10: Purple Day
• 9/11: Brown Day
• 9/12: Black & White Day
• 9/13: Rainbow Day
• Week of Oct. 7th 
• School Photo Week
• Oct. 18th
• LS Conference Day

Photos From The Week (please check our class Instagram for more photos!):