Friday, September 22, 2023

9.22.23

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  • Community Building 
    • Presenting their Elephant Projects @ Friday Gathering
      • Great job, 5th Graders!
    • Celebrating Simon's Birthday!
    • Morning Meeting
      • Believing in yourself
      • Heroes in our life
      • Not giving in to negative thoughts
      • Being my unique self 
  • Reading
    • Being alert and prepared to take notes 
    • Go beyond summarizing and use your personal voice 
    • Analyze perspective by identifying the narrator 
  • Read Aloud
    • Finished Wishtree 
    • Started Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate
  • Writing
    •  Telling the story from inside out 
    • Using a checklist to goal set
    • Transferring drafts to Google Classroom 
    • Partner Feedback
  • Word Study
    • Spelling Quiz #1
  • Number Corner & Math 
    • Going Over Rock Hopping Problems and Sharing Strategies
    • Continuing to Investigate Area and Volume Concepts for Rectangular Prisms
    • Finding the Surface Areas of Different Rectangular Prisms
    • Numerical Expressions Checkpoint
    • Working on Finding Factors and Multiples
    • Identifying a Number as Prime or Composite
    • Doubling and Halving Strategy
      • ex. 16 x 25 = 8 x 50 = 4 x 100 = 1 x 400 = 400
    • Finding Ten Times a Number, More or Less
      • ex. 2 x 4 = 8, so 2 x 40 = 2 x 4 x 10 = 8 x 10 = 80
      • ex. 3 x 61 = (3 x 60) + (1 x 3)
      • ex. 3 x 59 = (3 x 60) - (3 x 1)
  • Social Studies/Science
    • Finishing Summer Collage Presentations
    • Food Chains, Producers, and Consumers Exploration and Food Chain Game
Announcements:
  • Thanks to all families who joined us yesterday for Parent Information Afternoon
  • Next week Tuesday & Wednesday, students will be taking the STAR Assessments
    • Encourage them to have a good night's sleep and a hardy breakfast in order to be focused!
  • No School For Students: Friday, October 6th (Faculty Workshop Day)
  • No School For Students: Monday, October 9th (VIPR Friendship Day)

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