12.20.24 - WINTER BREAK BEGINS!

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• Community Building 
• Morning Meeting
• VI March
• 5th Grade Pledge
• Holiday Raffle Drawing
• Congrats to all who helped us raise over 1k for the Botanical Gardens!
• Winter Concert - First Band Concert!
• Making a Video with Advice & Good Luck for the USVI Women's Soccer Team
• Holiday Caroling
• Gift & Cookie Exchange

• Math
• Completing Unit 2 Assessments as Needed
• Fractions Practice

• Science
• STEM Fair Topic Survey & Question Brainstorm

• Read Aloud
• Continuing Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

• Literacy
• List #5 Glue Sort & Spelling Check-In
• Unit 2 Reading Pre-Assessment
• Completing our first class Newspaper - Fifth Grade Files

Announcements:

• Winter Break
• Early Dismissal Friday, December 20th @1230pm (NO AFTERCARE)
• School Resumes for Students Wednesday, January 8th
• STEM FAIR Display Board
• Due to school by Friday, January 10th

PHOTOS:

12.13.24

     Ask Your Child About...

• Community Building 
• Morning Meeting
• VI March
• 5th Grade Pledge
• Happy Birthday, Ayla!
• SEL Lesson with Ms. Xio 
• Follow-up on Managing Screen Time 
• Congrats to all of Thursday's GHCDS Spelling Bee Contestants!
• Lamees Abdallah, 5th grade
• Jayna Westby, 7th grade
• Nora Kammerzelt, 6th grade
• Saja Abdelghani, 4th grade
• Ah’Janique Morris: 8th grade (CHAMPION)
• Scarlett Sayre, 6th grade
• Nico Hutchins, 8th grade
• Wajee Abdallah, 7th grade
• Caitlin Kuczynski, 5th grade
• Nooreen Yusuf, 4th grade
• Turning Ms. Sinfield into a HAMBURGER!
• Fun Run Incentive

• Social Studies
• Map Skills Cont. 
• Labeling Continents & Oceans

• Math
• Number Corner
• Continuing December Calendar Pattern on Classifying Quadrilaterals
• Measuring Heights & Foot Lengths
• Creating X-Y Graphs From Our Class Data
• Fraction Addition & Subtraction Strategy Notes
• Fraction Story Problems
• Working with Fractions Checkpoint
• Unit 2 Review Jeopardy
• Unit 2 Assessment

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

• Word Study
• List #5 - Definitions, Sentences, & Your Pile, My Pile
• Wordle & NYT Spelling Bee Games

• Reading
• Non-Fiction Unit
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• Writing
• Continuing Working on News Articles for Our Class Newspaper

Announcements:

• Annual Lower School Holiday Raffle Information 
• Raffle: Monday, Dec. 16th
• Cannot Win 2x in One Year
• Winter Concert
• Wed., Dec. 18th: 8:45am-10am
• Holiday Caroling & Gift Exchange
• Fri. December 20th
• We will be caroling around campus from 945-1015am - families are welcome to join us if you wish!
• Gift & Cookie Exchange
• We will be hosting a holiday gift exchange. However, this is not your typical gift exchange. Students are going to bring in a USED AND WRAPPED grade-appropriate book, board game, or puzzle for an unknown classmate. In addition, they are to bake cookies for a cookie exchange (please have your child bring in a to-go container to bring home what they get!). If you do not want your child to participate in the gift exchange, please send us an e-mail. Otherwise, we will assume your child is participating. Further, your child must donate to receive.
• Winter Break
• Early Dismissal Friday, December 20th @1230pm (NO AFTERCARE)
• School Resumes for Students Wednesday, January 8th

PHOTOS:

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12.6.24 - Happy December!

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• Community Building 
• Morning Meeting
• VI March
• 5th Grade Pledge
• Happy Birthday, Makonnen!
• Hink Pinks - Word Puzzles (Thurs & Fri)
• Different Perspectives - Disney Holiday Short (if possible look it up on YouTube to watch at home with your child - our board connection was spotty this morning and we couldn't get it to load properly!)
• Making 3-D Snowflakes (works on executive functioning skills)
• Adding to Our New Bulletin Board - "What Brings You Joy?"
• Quick visit from Ms. Hill's sister & brother-in-law!

• Social Studies
• Map Skills
• G.A.IN.S Lesson with Ms. Bird on Balancing Screen Time

• Math
• Number Corner
• Starting December Calendar Pattern on Classifying Quadrilaterals
• Multiplication Ratio Table Problem String
• Measuring Heights & Foot Lengths
• Creating 2 Line Plots & Finding Min./Max., Mean, Median, & Mode of the 2 sets of class data
• Continuing Adding & Subtracting Fractions with Unlike Denominators using Multiple Strategies to find Common Denominators (ex. LCM, Double Number Line, Clock Model, Money Model)
• Finding Equivalent Fractions Using Clock & Ratio Table
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• Read Aloud
• Finishing Home of the Brave & Continuing Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

• Word Study
• List #5 - Open & Closed Sorts & Rainbow Writing

• Reading
• Beginning Unit 2 - Tackling Complexity - Moving Up Levels of Non-Fiction
• Thinking About.... While Reading NF Texts 
  
  
  

• Writing
• Working on News Articles - Starting with Who, What, Where, When & Using GOod NEws Vocabulary
• Article on Jump Up Based on Ms. Hill's Notes on "Who, What, Where, When, WHy, & Quotes"
• Own Article

Announcements:

• Annual Lower School Holiday Raffle Information 
• Ticket Sales: Mon. Dec. 9th - Fri. Dec.13th - NEXT WEEK!!
• 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: 8:45am-10am
• Holiday Caroling & Gift Exchange
• Fri. December 20th
• We will be caroling around campus from 945-1015am - families are welcome to join us if you wish!
• Gift Exchange
• We will be hosting a holiday gift exchange. However, this is not your typical gift exchange. Students are going to bring in a USED AND WRAPPED grade-appropriate book, board game, or puzzle for an unknown classmate. In addition, they are to bake cookies for a cookie exchange (please have your child bring in a to-go container to bring home what they get!). If you do not want your child to participate in the gift exchange, please send us an e-mail. Otherwise, we will assume your child is participating. Further, your child must donate to receive.
• Winter Break
• Early Dismissal Friday, December 20th @1230pm (NO AFTERCARE)
• School Resumes for Students Wednesday, January 8th

PHOTOS: