Thursday, March 13, 2025

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
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