10.4.24

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• 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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