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• Community Building
• Morning Meeting
• VI March
• 5th Grade Pledge
• Reading Buddies with 1st Grade - Celebrated 100 days of school!
• Happy Birthday, Tyler!
• 4th-6th Grade Cupcake Competition - Gathering in Pavilion to Present Check to Guardians of Culture Moko Jumbies!
• Helping Upper School student, Zavier, with his STEM Fair project: Math Video Game (created by Zavier!)

• Math
• Continuing work with February's Calendar Pattern on Multiplying Fractions (using area model)
• I have, Who Has: Decimal and Puzzle
• Place Value Patterns (with decimals)
  
  
  
  
• Division Strategies - Reverse Area Model, Ratio Table, Version of Standard Algorithm
• Writing Division Story Problems
• Solving Student-Posed Division Story Problems

• Science
• STEM Fair
• Creating a Project Title
• Writing the Abstract
• Getting Everything Ready for Print!
• NEXT WEEK WE ARE PUTTING BOARDS TOGETHER!

• Read Aloud & Word Study
• Continuing to Read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• Starting List #7: Open Sort, Closed Sort, Rainbow Writing, & Definitions

• Literacy
• Bend II of our Non-Fiction Unit
• Personal Inquiry Projects
• Completing Outline for 1st Inquiry Topic (identifying main ideas and supporting evidence)
• Research for 2nd Inquiry Project - Black History Important & Unsung Influencers/Heroes

Announcements:

• CONGRATS TO ALL 5th GRADERS AND GHCDS ON A FABULOUS SHOWING AT LAST WEEKEND'S AG FAIR!!!
• Classroom Book Wishlist
• Thanks for the donations so far!
• Next Week: Melanin Magic SPirit Week (see below flyer)
• March 7th: Wall-E Movie Showing (see below flyer)

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