Ask Your Child About...
- Community Building
- Morning Meeting
- Reaching for the Stars/Important to Dream
- Positive Thinking
- Responding to Big Feelings/Emotions in Appropriate Ways
- The Effect of Making Choices
- Friday Gathering
- A Midsummer Night's Dream Teaser Performance
- Bake Sale to Support Cancer VI
- Reading
- Unit 2: Informational Texts
- Main Idea
- How to identify it
- Looking out for several in one text
- Remembering that they're implicit
- News articles
- St. Croix Avis & Daily News
- Time for Kids & Scholastic
- Writing
- Unit 2: Journalism
- Taking notes using the 5 Ws
- Writing Mock Articles
- Using precise wording to create a mood
- Read Aloud
- Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste
- Number Corner & Math
- Continuing to Update our Mystery Calendar
- Analyzing Carrot Experiment Line Graphs
- Using a Clock Face to Help Add/Subtract Fractions
- Deciding Whether a Clock Face or Money Model is Best to Use to Add/Subtract Fractions
- Fractions Work Sample
- Multiplying Whole Numbers by Fractions
- Finding Common Denominators
Announcements:
- RELAY FOR LIFE is this weekend 10/28-10/29
- Tuesday, October 31st - HALLOWEEN!
- Ghost walk around campus @8:45am - families welcome!
- 4th & 5th Grade Class Party @1pm - Sign Up Genius here
- GHCDS Boo Bash & Trunk or Treat! @4-7pm
- Wednesday, November 1st - Parent Conference Day
- No School for students in observation of Bull & Bread Day
- Make sure you confirm your conference time slot with us!
- UPCOMING PLAYS IN THE COMMUNITY
- GHCDS presents A Midsummer Night's Dream
- Show Dates: November 3rd, 4th, 5th, 10th, and 11th at 7pm
- Caribbean Community Theatre presents The Tin Woman (starring Ms. Bishop!)
- Show Dates: November 3rd, 4th, 10th, 11th, 17th and 18th at 8pm
- Sunday Matinee on November 12th at 4pm
Ask Your Child About...
- Community Building
- Morning Meeting
- Growth Mindset
- Importance of Pep Talks & Believing in Yourself
- Listening Builds Relationships
- GAINS Lesson by Ms. Velez
- Hispanic Heritage Luncheon with Senora Nicholas
- Halloween Door Decorating Activity
- Great Shakeout
- Earthquake/Tsunami Safety Drill
- New Desk Spots!
- Reading
- Book Club Group Presentations
- Unit 1 Post Assessment
- Starting new unit: Nonfiction Texts
- Writing
- Starting new unit: Journalism
- Class Speaker- Reporter Mr. Knight from the St. Croix Avis
- Read Aloud
- Finished Home of the Brave by Katherine Applegate
- Number Corner & Math
- Continuing to Update the Mystery Calendar
- Completing the Carrot Masses Graph (& the Carrot Funeral)
- Finding the Volume of Irregular 3-D figures
- Strategies on Finding all the Possibilities of Combinations
- Ex: different combos of 3 ice cream flavors and 3 toppings
- Ex: different combos of the # of each of the items to purchase with a certain amount of money
- Unit 1 Assessment
- Starting Unit 2 - Adding and Subtracting Fractions
- Using money to add and subtract fractions
- Using clocks to add fractions
- Spanish
- Hispanic Heritage Month Culminating Food Experience
Announcements:
- RELAY FOR LIFE IS RESCHEDULED to next weekend 10/28-10/29
- Located at Complex High School (track and field)
- Wednesday, October 25th- Bake Sale after school!
- Funds go to Cancer Support VI
- See flyer below
- Tuesday, October 31st - HALLOWEEN!
- 4th & 5th Grade Class Party - Information in Friday email.
- GHCDS Boo Bash & Trunk or Treat! @4-7pm
- Wednesday, November 1st - Parent Conference Day
- No School for students in observation of Bull & Bread Day
- We will be in contact with details about time slots for meeting
Ask Your Child About...
- Community Building
- Morning Meeting
- Kid President - Letter to the Future & 20 Things We Should Say More Often
- Achieving Your Goals
- Friday Gathering
- Guardians of Culture presentation on history of moko jumbies!
- Reading
- Comparing and contrasting a 4th grade reading rubric with a 5th grade one
- Determining what types of statements are debatable
- Setting high expectations for strong book club conversations
- Writing
- Using dialogue tags
- Adding figurative language
- Unit 1 Publishing Party
- Number Corner & Math
- Figured out the Next 2 Mystery Grids for our October Calendar
- Continued to Chart/Graph the Masses of Our 2 Carrots
- Group it! Order of Operations Game
- Problem String #4 - Fraction Addition with Money
- Division
- Using square tiles
- Using base ten grid paper
- What to do with remainders
- Unit 1 Assessment is on Monday
- Science
- Matter & Plant Growth Activity - Weighing Air
Announcements:
- Snack Shack Has Reopened: 5th Graders may purchase snacks on M, W, and F
- Wednesday, October 18th- Scholastic Orders Due Online
- Thursday, October 19th- Parent Education Night (Screentime Safety)
- Located in the Library from 5:30-6:30
- Friday October 21st & Saturday 22nd- Relay For Life
- Located at Complex High School (track and field)
- Wednesday, October 25th- Bake Sale after school!
- Funds go to Cancer Support VI
- See flyer below!
- Tuesday, October 31st - HALLOWEEN!
- 4th & 5th Grade Class Party - Information in Friday email.
- GHCDS Boo Bash! - Organized by Parents Association
Ask Your Child About...
- Community Building
- Morning Meeting Topics
- Kindness
- Teamwork
- Setting Goals
- SEL Lesson from Counselor Ms. Lolli
- Being proud of unique attributes
- Class melting pot activity
- Embracing differences
- What do we have in common game
- Being respectful
- Types of comments that are in-bounds or out of bounds
- Reading
- Realistic Fiction Book Clubs
- Identifying Tension in a Story
- Establishing Good Habits in Book Club Conversations
- Building Larger Theories & Interpretations
- Writing
- Learning from Mentor Texts
- Using Writing Notebooks as a Workbench
- Stretching Out the Tension
- Word Study
- 2nd Spelling Quiz Completed!
- Number Corner & Math
- Starting the October Calendar Pattern and Collection
- Mystery Buildings: Views & Volume
- Carrot Graphing Experiment
- PEMDAS/Order of Operations/Grouping Symbols
- Multiplication & Volume Checkpoint Assessment
- Beat Ms. Hill Math Game
- Multiplication Strategies
- Science
- Final Constellation Design & Description
Announcements:
- Snack Shack Has Reopened: 5th Graders may purchase snacks on M, W, and F
- No School For Students: Friday, October 6th (Faculty Workshop Day)
- No School For Students: Monday, October 9th (VIPR Friendship Day)
- Friday, October 13th: Moko Jumbie Presentation/Performance @8:45am
- Families are welcome to join
- October 13th- Last Day for Food Drive
- October 18th- Scholastic Orders Due Online
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