10.25.24

Ask Your Child About...

• Community Building 
• Morning Meeting
• HILARIOUS POP QUIZ ON DIRECTIONS
• VI March
• 5th Grade Pledge
• Videos - Making Tough Choices, Beyonce & Kid President (World Needs More Kindness), Mass v. Weight 
• Discussion on Intent vs. Impact
• Halloween Themed Jokes
• ex. How can you tell when Dracula has a cold? (ask your child for the answer to see if you are correct!)
• Weekly Awards
• Sigma Citizenship: Caitlin
• Respectful Raptor: Lamees
• Integrity Iguana: Aiden
• Silver Scholarship: Rock
• Positive Platypus: Hannah

• Math
• Continuing October Calendar Pattern - Mystery Grid (3-D Structures)
• Starting New Collection
• Carrot Graph - Recording Decomposing Carrot Masses
• Order of Operations
• PEMDAS
• Song - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o110x-f4jYg
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• Starting Unit 2 - Adding & Subtracting Fractions
• Using Money & Clock Models
• Money ex. 1/4 + 1/5 = 25/100 + 20/100 = 45/100 = 9/20
• Clock ex. 1/4 + 1/5 = 15 min + 12 min = 15/60 + 12/60 = 27/60 = 9/20
• Literacy
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling
• Ask your child to summarize what we read today!
• Word Study
• Starting List #3 - Open Sort, Closed Sort, Rainbow Writing, Defining Words
• Reading
• Completing Book Club Flipbook Projects
• Writing
• Continuing Our Personal Narrative Unit
• Editing for Basic Punctuation (periods/exclamation points/question marks, commas, possession, semi colons, colons)
• Flash Drafting
• How does my writing measure up?
• Personal Narrative Checklist
• Partner Conferences

• Science
• Ecosystems & The Matter Cycle
• Big Fish Ecosystem Game & Connecting it to the Carbon Cycle
  

Announcements:

• Scholastic Fall Book Orders
• Order by Next Friday Class Code: 32MLDJ
• Thursday, Oct. 31st
• 4th-5th Grade Halloween Party - thanks to all who have signed up so far! 
• We are in need of more volunteers to help run stations - Sign-Up Here
• Friday, Nov. 1st
• No School - D. Hamilton Jackson Day
• Monday, Nov. 11th
• No School - Veterans' Day
• Friday, Nov. 22nd
• Dismissal @12:30pm
• Fall Trimester Ends

PHOTOS:

Unit 2 Bridges Math Family Letter

10.17.24

    Ask Your Child About...

• Community Building 
• Morning Meeting
• VI March
• 5th Grade Pledge
• Inspirational Videos - Reach For the Stars (about dreaming), Listening (Inside Out Clip)
• The Great Shakeout Earthquake Drill
• Weekly Awards
• Sigma Citizenship: Lily
• Respectful Raptor: Tyler
• Integrity Iguana: Joshua
• Silver Scholarship: Colton
• Positive Platypus: D'Sean
• Fun Run Class Rewards
• Cozy Day!

• Math
• Practicing Division Strategies, including what to do with a remainder in a story problem (i.e. how to split money, food, balloons, etc when dividing)
• Unit 1 Review Jeopardy
• Unit 1 Assessment

• Literacy
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling
• Home of the Brave, by Katherine Applegate
• Word Study
• Spelling Check-In #2
• Reading
• Working on Book Club Flipbook Projects
• Writing
• Continuing Our Personal Narrative Unit
• Adding Adjectives to Make Writing More Descriptive

• Science
• Ecosystems & The Matter Cycle
• Learning About How Ponds Recycle Matter
  
  
  

Announcements:

• Friday, Oct. 18th (TOMORROW)
• LS Conference Day
• If your haven't confirmed your appt, please e-mail me (Ms. Hill) back
• Thursday, Oct. 31st
• 4th-5th Grade Halloween Party
• Sign-Up Genius
• Friday, Nov. 1st
• No School - D. Hamilton Jackson Day

PHOTOS:

10.9.24

   Ask Your Child About...

• Community Building 
• Morning Meeting
• VI March
• 5th Grade Pledge
• Inspirational Videos, Kid President Video 20 Things You Should Say More Often, Change the World with Your Words, Another Pep Talk From Kid President, & Believe in Yourself
• Weekly Awards - Short Week so Will be presented next Tuesday!
• Fun Run Class Rewards
• Potluck Lunch - thanks to all who helped make it a great success!

• Math
• Continuing Out Oct. Calendar Pattern - Mystery Box!
• Finding Different Combinations By Creating Diagrams and/or Lists
• Ice creams & Flavors, Items to Buy with "$5"
• Multiplication Strategies
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• Reviewing Division Strategies
• Using Multiplication, Ratio Table, & Reverse Area Model
  
  
  
• Multiplication & Volume Checkpoint
• Beat Ms. Hill Game

• Literacy
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling
• Home of the Brave, by Katherine Applegate
• Word Study
• Continuing List #2: Speed Sorts & Whiteboard Writing, Blind Sort & Spell, & Glue Sort
• Check-in 2 next week
• Reading
• Linking Ideas to Build Larger Theories & Interpretations
• Continuing Book Club Books, Discussions, & Notes
• Books should all be completed at this time
• if not, students are to complete the novel by the end of the long weekend
• groups will be working on a book club project in class next week
• Writing
• Continuing Our Personal Narrative Unit
• Telling the story from inside it - as it is happening
• Using Details that are true to the event

• Science
• Matter & Plant Growth
• Completed our mold terrarium experiment - SPOILER: plain salt kept the mold away best compared to Tajin, Mushrooms, Water, Cinnamon, or the control
• Field Trip to the Nature Conservancy's Coral Lab

Announcements:

• Friday, October 11th (tomorrow)
• No school for students - Professional Dev. Day for Teachers
• Monday, October 14th
• No school for students - VI/PR Friendship./Indigenous Peoples' Day
• Thursday, October 17th
• Unit 1 Math Assessment Scheduled
• Friday, Oct. 18th
• LS Conference Day
• If your haven't confirmed your appt, please e-mail me (Ms. Hill) back

PHOTOS:

10.4.24

  Ask Your Child About...

• Community Building 
• Morning Meeting
• VI March
• 5th Grade Pledge
• Fun Run Character Videos - Trustworthiness, Creativity & Life-Learner
• Weekly Awards
• Sigma Citizenship - Zaina
• Silver Scholarship - Ayla
• Integrity Iguana - Colton
• Positive Platypus - Lamees
• Respectful Raptor - Luke
• Fun Run!
• CONGRATS 5th GRADE & FAMILIES ON RAISING OVER $150/LAP AND KIDS FOR RUNNING WILD!
• Fun Run Class Rewards
• Come as You're Not Day, Choose Your Seat Day
• Upcoming - Wednesday 10/9 Pot Luck Day & Cozy/Movie Day (TBD)

• Math
• Completing Sept. Calendar Pattern ($ and clock fractions/decimals) and Collection (volume of rectangular prisms)
• Starting Oct. Calendar Pattern - Mystery Box!
• Volume & Surface Area of REctangular Prisms
• Volume vs. Surface Area Work
• Work Sample on Volume & Surface Area
• Escape Room Challenge
• Factors vs Multiples & Prime vs. Composite Notes
• Multiplication Strategies - Breaking one number up by place value
• ie: 22 x 76 = (20x76) +(2x76)

• Literacy
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, by J.K. Rowling
• Home of the Brave, by Katherine Applegate (continued & discussed)
• Contractions & Homophones Work
• Word Study
• Continuing List #2: Definitions & Sentences
• Reading
• Continuing Book Club Books, Discussions, & Notes
• Studying Characters - Identifying Problems of  Main Character to Help Uncover Life Lessons or Messages
• Seeing a Text Through the Eyes of Other Readers
• Writing
• Beginning Personal Narrative Unit
• Generating Ideas
• Writing a Strong Lead - Setting the Scene
• Watching the Movie, Wonder (based on our summer reading book of the same title)

• Science
• Matter & Plant Growth
• Decomposers & Matter Cycle
• Continuing Mold Terrarium Experiment; so fa...
• Least amount of mold is growing on food covered in salt
• Most amount of mold is growing on the food that was soaked in H2O
• GAINS
• Impulse Control Lesson with Ms. Bird
• Bubble Pop Activity

Announcements:

• Tuesday October 8th - 5th Grade Picture Day
• Wednesday October 8th - POT LUCK LUNCH & CORAL FARM Field Trip
• October 11th - No school for students (Professional Dev. Day for Teachers)
• October 14th - No school for students (VI/PR Friendship./Indigenous Peoples' Day)
• Oct. 18th
• LS Conference Day

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