Ask Your Child About
- Community Building
- Welcome Gabriel Melendez & Knox Kohl - We are so excited to have you join our GHCDS community!
- Visit from our school counselors Ms. Bird and Mr. Addison
- Reading
- New Read Aloud - Zane and the Hurricane: A Story of Katrina by Rodman Philbrick
- Extreme Weather research groups
- Note taking on natural disaster subcategories: causes/effects, safety/preparation, & real life examples
- Writing
- Persuasive essays: shifting from personal opinions to broader world debates
- Brainstorming using 3 strategies: freewriting, listing, and word webs
- Word Study
- Introduced new word study groups based on mid-year spelling assessment
- Began work with spelling list #6
- Math
- Number Corner
- New Calendar Pattern - shapes
- Vocab - Isosceles right triangle, Scalene right triangle, Parallelogram, & Rhombus
- Finding area of the shapes using square units
- New Calendar Collection - 3 Quarters a Day
- Writing money amounts as fractions (including improper fractions and mixed numbers) and decimals
- Fair shares
- Using coins, manipulatives, & clocks to solve division problems that will lead to quotients that are fractions
- Fractions and Mixed Numbers
- Making construction paper fraction strips
- Unit 2 Assessment Returned before - Please make sure you signed it and that it is returned to school!
- Social Studies
- New Year's Reflections & Resolutions
Important Information
- No School this coming Monday January 17th
- MLK Day
- 12:30pm Dismissal Friday January 28th
- Teacher Workshop Afternoon
- Donations
- Please send in any wrappers or empty food containers with nutrition labels in tact for our Health & Wellness lesson on Wednesday
- Picture Day Make-Up will be Monday January 31st
- New students and students who were absent on the first picture day will have their individual photos taken
- We will also take a whole 4th grade class photo
- Trimester 2 Specials
- For Art, students need to bring in a sketchbook if they haven't already
- For Music, students need a folder and a highlighter if they haven't brought them in already
See photos below of Knox & Gabriel!
No comments:
Post a Comment