9.29.23

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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
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• 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
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• 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)

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