2.6.25

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• 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)
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• 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!
• Fresh Mint

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