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- Community Building
- Morning Meeting
- Core Value Message From Ms. Thatcher
- The Power of Words Video
- Gratitude Kid President Video
- Teacher's Make a Difference Videos
- Follow the Leader Game
- Choice Time
- Reading
- Analyzing pre-assessment comprehension scores
- Creating reading goals for the year
- Practicing good habits for note-taking about our reading
- Read Aloud: The Wishtree by Katherine Applegate
- Writing
- Started Unit 1: Personal Narratives
- Generating ideas using various strategies
- Practicing writing strong leads
- Studying student narrarive samples to get inspiration
- Word Study
- Quiz for spelling list #1 will be next week!
- Number Corner & Math
- Introducing the September Calendar Grid and Collection
- Calendar pattern is on money and clock models and converting them to fractions of a dollar and hour, respectively
- Collection is on adding layers to rectangular prisms and finding and comparing their volumes
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- Problem String on Subtraction - Removal vs. Finding the Difference (involving decimals as well as whole numbers)
- First example is removal and second is finding the difference:
- Boxing Baseballs
- Finding different ways to make rectangular prisms out of 12 and 24 Omnifix cubes
- Social Studies/Science
- Starting Our First Science Unit: The Web of Life
- Bill Nye Video on the Food Web
- SEL Lesson from the Counseling Department on Identifying Emotions and Coping Strategies
- Continuing to Share Summer Collages
Announcements:
- Please follow our private class Instagram @ghcds5th_2023
- No School For Students Friday, September 15th - Faculty Workshop Day
- Friday Gathering on Friday, September 22nd @ 8:30am: 5th Grade Presenting on Their Elephant Research Project
- ALL PARENTS/FAMILY WELCOME!
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