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Ask Your Child About...
- Community Building
- Morning Meeting
- VI March
- 5th Grade Pledge
- Supreme Court Justice Discussion
- Ketanji Brown Jackson was on campus today (Thurs. 2/6)
- Reading Buddies with 1st Grade
- Adding Color/Art/Design to 5th Grade Ag Fair Poems
- They will be on display next weekend at Ag Fair!
- 5th Grade Community Building Games
- Core Value Award Nominations (monthly routine explained and nominations begun)
- Circle Walk/Turn Around Game
- Silly Relay Races
- Circle Sit & Blind "Capture the Flag"
- Ms. Bird's GAINS Lesson on Time Management
- The kids did great - much improvement from last month's lesson that ended with extra HW assigned!! :-)
- Math
- Introducing the New Calendar Pattern on Multiplying Fractions (using area model)
- Conversions
- Multiplying/dividing by powers of 10/moving decimal left or right
- ie: 671 deciliters = 67,100 milliliters and 67.1 liters
- Rounding Review (to nearest 1, tenth, & hundredth)
- Decimal Place Value Checkpoint Assessment 2
- STAR Math Assessment
- Reviewing Decimal Addition & Subtraction Strategies (constant difference, removal, give & take, standard algorithms)
- Science
- STEM Fair
- Developing the Data Table to Fill Out While COmpleting their Experiment
- EXPERIMENT NEEDS TO BE COMPLETED WITH DATA BROUGHT INTO SCHOOL BY MONDAY 2/10!
- Read Aloud & Word Study
- Continuing to Read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
- Continuing List #6 - Your Pile, My Pile, Whiteboard Writing, Speed Sort, Quizzing with Groupmates (check-in assessment will be next week)
- Literacy
- Bend II of our Non-Fiction Unit
- Personal Inquiry Projects
- Choosing Topics
- Developing a Research Plan
- Ag Fair Writing - Theme: "From Soil to Soul - Nurturing V.I. Agriculture"
- Completed Poems & Essays - Congrats to the following GHCDS 5th grade Ag Fair Winners (their essays have been submitted to the Ag Fair for the contest!); Poetry: Joshua Lima, Ayla Benton, Cecilia Burgos, Rock Roberts, & Sage Weiss; Essays: Ayla Benton, Maddox McCants, Tyler Langley, Lily Farraj, Caitlin Kuczynski, & Ronin Green
- STAR Reading Winter Assessment
Announcements:
- STEM FAIR
- One Board Per Project Needs to Be Brought in ASAP
- EXPERIMENT NEEDS TO BE COMPLETED & DATA BROUGHT IN BY MONDAY 2/10 (we will work on graphs & putting the board together in school)
- Faculty Day/Winter Conference Day (if requested)
- Friday, Feb. 7th (TOMORROW)
- If you didn't receive a request from me (Ms. Hill) then you do not have a conference scheduled
- Valentine's Day - Friday 2/14
- Cupcake Contest (4th-6th Grades) - please return permission slip if your child is competing!
- Pls have your child bring in an empty box (shoe, tissue, amazon) to decorate for Valentines' Cards/treats if they have yet to do so.
- Students who bring in Valentine's Day treats/cards need to bring in for the whole class
- Lamees
- Ayla
- Cecilia
- Colton
- Lily
- Ronin
- Makonnen
- Caitlin
- Tyler
- Joshua
- Luke
- Maddox
- D'Sean
- Rock
- Aiden
- Hannah
- Sage
- Zaina
- Ag Fair (GHCDS will have a booth!)
- Feb. 14th-17th
- 5th Graders wrote poems and essays, & will be making products out of aloe vera for the fair!
- Classroom Book Wishlist
- Thanks for the donations so far!
- Ag Fair Project Needed Ingredient - thanks to all who have donated/signed up to donate so far!
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