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
• Ex: 

  

• 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