1.12.24

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• Community Building 
• Morning Meeting
• Happy Birthday, Nora!
• Deciphering anagrams
• Teamwork, biggest dreams, empathy, appreciating diversity, naming emotions
• Nora's Birthday Celebration!

• Writing
• Writing SMART Goals
• 2024 Agomograph 
• Letter to MLK Jr. 

• Reading
• Reading SMART Goals
• Unit 3 Preassessment 
• Researching Debatable Issues 
• NEW Read Aloud Book
• Darnell Rock Reporting by Walter Dean Myers

• Math
• Beginning January Calendar Pattern and Collection
• Graphing patterns on a coordinate grid and writing its equation in y=mx+b form
• Collecting money amounts and time (including having to find fractions of a dollar or clock)
• Decimal Subtraction on a Number Line
• Removal vs. differencing strategies
• Getting to a friendly number 
  
• Extending the Great Wall of Base Ten
• Finding fractions of a decimal grid
• Labeling 1/1,000 and 1/10,000
• How to Input a Fraction on a Calculator (ie fraction sign is the same as division)
• Playing Draw and Compare Decimals vs. a Partner
• Playing Round and Add Tenths with a Partner
• Decimal Equivalencies Work Sample & Decimal Place Value Checkpoint 1

• Science
• STEM Fair Topic Survey
• Topic and Question Brainstorming

• Global Perspectives 
• Matching Sources with Purposes
• Healthy Eating Review 

Announcements:

• No School This Monday, January 15th - MLK Day
• STEM Fair Packet - Back page signed by a parent and student by next Wednesday Jan. 17th
• Calendar is also linked on the main blog page HERE and will be updated there as needed (also see photo below for where to find it on the blog)
  
• Lastly, there is another copy of the full calendar below on this blog post
• Announcement From Robyn Brunson
• Cambridge International Sessions for Lower School Parents - Parents, join school administrators on Wednesday, Jan. 17, from 4 - 5 p.m. for updates on our implementation of Cambridge International and the exciting plans for the 2024-25 school year. Please feel free to leave your little ones in After Care (free of charge) and join us for an engaging session! 

Photos From The Week: 

MONDAY	TUESDAY	WEDNESDAY	THURSDAY	FRIDAY
1/8 through 1/19 In Class - Topic and Question Brainstorming	1/23 Group Topic and Question Due	1/24	1/25	1/26
1/29	1/30 Research (Note Cards) Due	1/31	2/1	2/2 Bibliography & Variables Identified Due
2/5	2/6 Hypothesis Due	2/7	2/8	2/9 Materials List Due
2/12	2/13 Procedure Due	2/14 Start Experiment	2/15	2/16 NO SCHOOL - Faculty Workshop Day
2/19 NO SCHOOL - Presidents’ Day	2/20	2/21	2/22	2/23
2/26 Finish Experiment!	2/27 Data & Results Due	2/28	2/29 (Leap Year!)	3/1 Project Title & Chart(s)/Graph(s) Due
3/4	3/5 Printed/Emailed Photos of Experiment Due	3/6	3/7	3/8 Conclusion and Abstract Due SPRING BREAK 3/9-3/17
3/18 Display Board Due to School	3/19	3/20	3/21	3/22 Final Board Due
3/25 In Class Presentations	3/26 In Class Presentations	3/27 In Class Presentations	3/28 NO SCHOOL - Spring Conference Day	3/29 NO SCHOOL - Easter Break
4/1 NO SCHOOL - Easter Break/Transfer Day	4/2 SET UP BOARDS IN GYM	4/3 STEM FAIR JUDGING	4/4 CLASSES/COMMUNITY VISIT STEM FAIR	4/5 TAKE DOWN BOARDS