First Post of 2025!

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• Community Building 
• Morning Meeting
• VI March
• 5th Grade Pledge
• Welcoming, Maddox, our Newest 5th Grade Student at GHCDS and helping to celebrate his birthday on Thursday!
• Community Building Games with 4th-6th Graders
• Circle Up Review Activity
• Common Denominator - group similarity game
• Group 2 Truths & A Lie 
• Scattergories Scavenger Hunt

• Math
• Beginning January Calendar Pattern on Numerical Patterns & Related Graphs of a Line
• Beginning Unit 3 - Place Value & Decimals
• Reviewing Adding Fractions Strategies
• Playing Beat Ms. Hill - Fractions
• Give & Take Strategy for Adding Whole Numbers & DECIMALS
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• Multiplying and Dividing by POwers of 10
• ex1: 80.0 x 10 = 800 (decimal moves right one place value)
• ex2: 80.0 /10 = 8 (decimal moves left one place value)

• Science
• STEM Fair Question Types & Writing
  
  
  

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

• Literacy
• New Years Journaling 
• Defining Failure, watching a Michael Jordan inspirational video, then defining success & writing about something that they might have failed at many times but that Jordan would consider as moving towards success
• What is really important in life poems/raps
• Continuing to Read Non-Fiction

Announcements:

• STEM FAIR
• Calendar Signed by Student & Guardian by MONDAY 1/13
• No School Monday, January 20th
• MLK Day
• Reminder - please try to get your children to school by 8:25am so we can start morning meeting on time with all students

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