Happy Thanksgiving Break!

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• Community Building 
• Morning Meeting
• VI March
• 5th Grade Pledge
• 2024 Taste of Thanksgiving Community Meal

• Social Studies
• Making Moko Jumbies - Wire & Fabric
• Guardians of Culture Moko Jumbies Performance & Following Class Presentation by Mr. John
• SEL Lesson with Ms. Xio on Intrusive Thoughts

• Math
• Continuing the November Calendar - Tumbling Triangles (graphing coordinate points and analyzing transformation of different triangles around a graph: translations, rotations, & reflections)
• Completing River Trail Map (mapping fractions of the trail)
• More Fractions Practice
• Adding & Subtracting Fractions with Unlike Denominators
• Finding Fraction of a Whole Number
• Target Practice Game
• Better Buys
• ex. question: 10 granola bars for $8 or 4 for $6?
• ex. answer: 10 for $8 since 4 for $6 would be equivalent to 8 for $12
• Fraction Addition & Subtraction Checkpoint

• Read Aloud
• Finishing Home of the Brave & Continuing Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

• Word Study
• Continuing List #4 - Your Pile, My Pile & Glue Sort/Study
• Check-In #4

• Reading/Writing
• Starting to Read Current Events/Write as a Journalist

• Writing
• Personal Narrative Publishing Party with 1st Grade!

• Science
• Completing Unit 1 - Web of Life
• Protecting Environments
• Bloom Busters Activity
• Food Webs & The Flow of Energy
• Dinosaur Food Web

Announcements:

• Fri. Nov. 22nd
• Fall Trimester Ends & Thanksgiving Break Begins
• Report Cards Will be Sent Out After Thanksgiving Break 
• Annual Lower School Holiday Raffle Information
• Ticket Sales: Mon. Dec. 9th - Fri. Dec.13th 
• Before Classes Begin
• Each Ticket is $0.25
• All gifts Donated by Teachers
• Raffle: Monday, Dec. 16th
• Cannot Win 2x in One Year
• Winter Concert
• Wed., Dec. 18th

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