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Ask Your Child About...

• Community Building
• Morning Meeting
• VI March
• 5th Grade Pledge
• G.A.IN.S. Lesson From Ms. Bird
• Task Initiation & Extra HW Assessment
• 1st Grader, Wadee: Head of School for a Day (Holiday Raffle Prize)
• Infinite Recess for 1/2 of the Day on Thursday
• February Bulletin Board
• Paper Chain
• Reading Buddies with 1st Grade
• This or That Worksheet
• Reading!

• Math
• Continuing Collection - Multiplying and Adding Fractions of an Hour (screen time earned for fictional "Susan") & Fractions of a Dollar (allowance earned for fictional "Susan")
• Continuing Unit 3 - Place Value & Decimals
• Extending the Great Wall of Base Ten: shading in decimals on a 10,000ths grid
• More Decimal Subtraction Using a Number Line
• Playing Draw & Compare Decimals
• Decimal Warm Ups
• I Have, You Have
• Comparing Decimal Numbers (ex. 0.16 > 0.4 since 16/100 > 40/100)
• Decimal Equivalencies Work Sample Assessment

• Science
• STEM Fair
• Students Should Have Completed the Following
• Question, Hypothesis, and Background Research/Paragraph
• Ask them to show you in their Google Doc

• Read Aloud & Word Study
• Completing Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Starting Lis # 6 With New Word Study Groups

• Literacy
• 5th Grade Files - Special Edition Breaking News Articles - LA Fires
• Completed & Distributed!
• Continuing to Read Non-Fiction - For Writing & STEM Fair Research
• Structure of Non-Fiction Texts

Announcements:

• STEM FAIR
• One Board Per Project Needs to Be Brought in ASAP
• Next Week in Class We Will Work on the Following
• Variables, Materials' List, & Procedure
• Faculty Day/Winter Conference Day (if requested)
• Friday, Feb. 7th
• Cupcake Contest (4th-6th Grades)
• Info to Come Feb. 1st!
• Ag Fair (GHCDS will have a booth!)
• Feb. 14th-17th
• Classroom Book Wishlist

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