Friday, December 20, 2024

12.20.24 - WINTER BREAK BEGINS!

      Ask Your Child About...

  • 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
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Friday, December 13, 2024

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
  • 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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Thursday, December 5, 2024

12.6.24 - Happy December!

    Ask Your Child About...

  • 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
      • ex. 


  • 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:









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