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- Community Building
- 4th Grade's Hispanic Heritage Month Friday Gathering Presentation
- Morning Meeting
- Compassion
- One Day Video (Kindness)
- Grit
- 6th Grade Canned Food Drive Announcement
- Donations accepted until October 13th
- Reading
- STAR Reading Assessment
- Thinking analytically while reading
- Started realistic fiction book clubs
- Created constitutions
- Establishing good habits
- Writing
- Keeping a story arc in mind
- Strategies for elaborating
- Adding scenes from past or future
- When to use commas
- Strong endings
- Word Study
- Started 2nd spelling list!
- Number Corner & Math
- STAR Math Assessment
- Finishing September Calendar Pattern (money and clock fractions) and Collection (building rectangular prisms with different bases)
- Constant Difference Strategy for Subtracting with Decimals
- Field Trip Snacks Story Problem
- Surface Area Challenge
- Building a Rectangular Prism with 36 omnifix cubes and finding the volume (base x height) and surface area (adding up the areas of all sides - top & bottom and pairs of opposite sides)
- Boxes Work Sample
- Assessment on volume and surface area
- Multiplication Strategy - partial products
- Science
- Visiting the Planetarium
- learning about constellations, eclipses and more
- designing their own constellation follow-up activity
- Web of Life Lesson 2 Exploration
- Matter & Plant Growth - What do plants eat?
Announcements:
- After School Activities: Clubs start the week of October 2nd & run for 6 sessions.
- The form went home this Tuesday and should be submitted to the office.
- Picture Day: Tuesday, October 3rd
- Every student will be taking a picture even if you're not interested in purchasing.
- Please see Mr. Mondesir's email for details.
- Parent Education Night: October 3rd at 5:30 in the Library
- Screentime Safety presented by Ms. Bird
- No School For Students: Friday, October 6th (Faculty Workshop Day)
- No School For Students: Monday, October 9th (VIPR Friendship Day)
This Week in Photos:
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