10.9.24

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• 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

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