3.28.25 - First Week of Trimester 3!

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• Community Building
• Morning Meeting
• VI March
• 5th Grade Pledge
• 4th-6th Grade Community Building - Quadrille Dancing & Having Patrick as a Guest during this time!
• March Madness Brackets
• 1st Grade Reading Buddies - Reading Non-Fiction Books With them Since they are Studying Animals!

• Math
• Continuing March Number Corner (multiplying decimals, & Reviewing +/- Fractions)
• Continuing Unit 4: Multiplying & Dividing Whole Numbers and Decimals
• Example Strategy: To find 25 x 23, you can find 0.25 x 23 then multiply the product by 100 - ie move the decimal to the right 2 times
  
  
  
• Mid-Unit Assessments: Multiplication Work Sample and Multiplication & Division Checkpoint

• Science
• Beginning New Unit on Earth & Space Patterns - Lesson 1 on Day, Night, & Earth's Rotation

• Social Studies
• Beginning a Global Perspectives Cambridge Challenge on Communication Changing over Time - multiple choice "quiz" to test knowledge of the topic & finding photos on their groups' communication era
• Continuing Research & Notes on History of Sugar on STX

• Read Aloud & Word Study
• Continuing to Read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• List #8: Sentences, Glue Sort, Your Word/My Word, Whiteboard Writing/Quizzing Each Other

• Literacy
• Publishing Inquiry Projects as a Special Edition of 5th Grade Files - Class Celebration Next Week!

Announcements:

• SATURDAY APRIL 5th @ 630pm - Movie Night - The Wild Robot
  
  
  
• THURSDAY APRIL 17th - Spring Conference Morning - Please contact Ms. Hill directly if you would like to meet
• FRIDAY APRIL 18th & MONDAY APRIL 21st - Easter Break - No School

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Week of 3.7.25 & 3.14.25

  Ask Your Child About...

• Community Building
• Morning Meeting
• VI March
• 5th Grade Pledge
• 1st Grade Reading Buddies
• STEM Fair!
• Space of Unknown to the Space of Knowing Mini-Lesson/Discussion
• G.A.IN.S. Lesson on Perseverance (game show activity)
• February Awards
• Workout Competitions! (pushups, squats, situps)
• Friday Gathering - David Sullivan 6th Grade Field Trip Presentation
• Lower School Shadow Day (& EARLY DISMISSAL TOMORROW 3/14)

• Math
• Finishing Up Feb. Number Corner Work (multiplying fractions/mixed numbers to find area & multiplying fractions x whole numbers)
• Starting March Number Corner (multiplying decimals, & specifically multiplying and dividing numbers by 10 while playing quotient bingo)
• Starting Unit 4: Multiplying & Dividing Whole Numbers and Decimals (family overview letter attached to last week's e-mail)
• Reviewing ratio table strategies for multiplication & division, half-ten strategy, doubling & halving strategy
• Cost & revenue VS. profit 
• Multiplying decimals (strategy example: to find 1.26 x 3.06, first find that 126 x 306 = 38,556, count 4 decimal spots and move the decimal left 4 times to represent dividing by 10 four times, and get your final product of 3.8556). 

• Science
• STEM Fair - setting up board in gym, exploring other projects with a scavenger hunt, and presenting to the judges!
• Class Presentations - started

• Social Studies
• History of Sugar Timelines
• Starting Research on History of Sugar on STX

• Read Aloud & Word Study
• Continuing to Read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
• List #7 Check-In Assessment
• Starting List #8: Open & Closed Sorts, Rainbow Writing, & Definitions

• Literacy
• Continuing Personal Inquiry Projects- Completing Inquiry Project #1 (typing, adding photo, including sources list, and editing) & Continuing work for Inquiry Project #2 (we will finish polishing off these pieces after break)

Announcements:

• SPRING BREAK
• Sat. March 15 through Sun. March 23rd

Photos:

STEM FAIR SUCCESS! (Video Footage)

Students were professional, scientific, and engaging at today's STEM Fair. Congrats to all and thanks to the judges who interacted with the students and projects!