4.29.22

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• Community Building
• AeroMD Ambulance Tour
• Kindness Bingo
• Friday Gathering: First Grade Pocket Poems
• Literacy
• Reading
• Started Unit 4: Historical Fiction Book Clubs
• Practicing note-taking strategies on Historical picture books
• Created constitutions with their book club rules
• Having daily book club conversations on assigned chapter book
• Writing
• Ag. Fair Contest
• Drafting a poem or essay to align with this year's theme: A Golden Opportunity to Grow
• Started Unit 4: Literary Essays
• Learning how to close read and think critically
• Using thought prompts to annotate text
• Word Study
• Started list #12: Ask your child what their current spelling pattern is!
• Math
• Number Corner
• Analyzing line pots and graphs
• Using area and one dimension to find the perimeter of a give rectangle
• Color Ten - 3rds, 6ths, & 12ths game 2
• Multiplication and Division Strategies
• Area model: reviewed for multiplication and learned for division
• More ratio tables
• Revisiting the Doubling & Halving strategy for multiplication
• Science/Health & Wellness
• Began our next Science unit on Energy
• Twist-O-Matic Challenge
• Bumper Coaster Experiment
• Mental Health discussion

Important Information

• GHCDS Musical: Once Upon a Mattress ($15)
• Week 1: April 29th, 30th, & May 1st @ 8pm
• Week 2: May 6th, 7th, & 8th @ 8pm
• Week of May 2nd - Teacher Appreciation Week
• Monday May 9th - No School
• Long Mother's Day Weekend

This Week In Photos (TWIP)  

4.22.22

    Ask Your Child About

• Community Building
• Spring Activities
• Where's Waldo Game
• Last Student Standing Game
• This or That GoNoodle
• Friday Gathering by Stage Presence After-School Activity
• Congrats Mackenzie & Carmen!
• Literacy
• Reading
• Wrapped-Up Unit 3: Revolutionary War
• Created posters for a timeline
• Presented timeline to 5th grade 
• Writing
• Wrapped-Up 2nd Book on Revolutionary War Subtopics
• Publishing Party with special pencil cookies!
• Word Study
• Finished list #11 & took spelling test
• Math
• Number Corner
• Problem String on Doubling & Halving in Division
• Color Ten 
• Game 2 with halves, quarters, and sixteenths
• Game 3 with thirds, sixths, and twelfths 
• Comparing decimeters and centimeters
• Charting arm and hand span class measurements
• Unit 4 Assessment
• Division with money story problems
• Using a ratio table or the area model to connect multiplication problems 
• Science
• Finished our Waves of Sound Unit 
• Balloon activity
• Rope Activity
• Virtual Eco-Fair
• Organized by S.E.A
• Community Speakers covering the topics of sea turtles, mangroves, lionfish, shells, climate change, and more!
• Follow-up Jeopardy Game & Thank you cards 
• Guest Speaker from East End Marine Park
• Fish anatomy and printing
• Earth Day 
• Trail Hike with Ms. Coles
• Scavenger Hunt

Important Information

• Next Friday, April 29th - EARLY DISMISSAL @ 12:30pm
• Faculty Workshop Day
• Week of May 2nd - Teacher Appreciation Week
• Monday May 9th - No School
• Long Mother's Day Weekend

This Week In Photos (TWIP) 

4.8.22

   Ask Your Child About

• Community Building
• Morning meeting: shoe greeting and games
• Closing circle shout outs and "What's Different?" game
• Friday Gathering - Theatre Club Skit
• Wellness Wednesday - New Unit on Digital Citizenship
• Literacy
• Reading
• Expository vs. narrative informational texts
• Tackling tricky vocab during research
• Starting post Revolutionary War research
• Writing
• Primary vs. secondary quotes
• Synthesizing research to craft chapters of various genres
• Outlining narrative chapters
• Use checklist to revise work
• Goal setting
• Word Study
• Spelling test #10
• Started spelling list #11
• Math
• Number Corner
• Playing Color Ten - Ms. Hill's homeroom vs. Ms. Bishop's homeroom
• Introduced April calendar markers about shapes and their perimeters
• Introduced April calendar collector - a decimeter a day
• Problem String - Division using an area model 
• Vocab - dividend, divisor, and quotient
• Measurement
• Time notation
• Time word problems
• Mass/weight
• Volume/capacity
• Addition & subtraction algorithm review 
• Boom website
• Science
• Waves of Sound lesson 1 & started lesson 2 - vibration & sound connection

Important Information

• Easter Break (4 Day Weekend)
• No School Friday 4/15 - Good Friday
• No School Monday 4/18 - Easter Monday
• This week was the last week for After School Activities unless otherwise notified (if a class was missed)

This Week In Photos (TWIP) 

4.1.22

  Ask Your Child About

• Community Building
• Ms. Hill and Ms. Bishop's April Fool's Joke
• Friday Gathering Performance on the United States
• 1st Day of Reading Buddies with the Kindergarteners! 
• Transfer Day & Flags of the USVI
• Women's History Month - Dr. Jane Goodall, Zoologist Lucy Cooke, Maya Angelou and her poem "Phenomenal Women", Syrian American poet/rapper Mona Haydar and her music video "Hijabi", & investigative journalist Nellie Bly
• Ramadan
• Field Trip to Salt River Bay, including Taino jewelry making and the pre and post classroom presentations by Ranger McIntosh
• Literacy
• Reading
• Researching 2nd Subtopic
• synthesizing across multiple texts
• Strategies for tackling complex texts
• Studying all parts of a text to determine a main idea
• Writing
• Drafting American Revolution book #2
• Writing intros & using transitions
• Using Text Features
• Popping out the important information
• Word Study
• Continued working with List #10
• Word Search & Crossword Puzzle
• Math
• Number Corner
• Completed our calendar grid re: function machines
• Completed "The Great Fraction Race"
• Problem String re: deciding if two fractions are equivalent using a hundreds grid
• Don't Break 3.00 game 2
• Multiplying fractions story problems
• Number Corner Check-up Assessment #3
• Measurement
• Book: Hottest, Coldest, Highest, Deepest
• Measurement benchmarks
• Distance Challenge
• Using a ratio table to find equivalent kilometers to meters
• Social Studies
• Presented State's Project to small groups
• Prepared for our Friday Gathering performance

Important Information

• If you have any questions about the report cards that went home last week, please reach out to us!
• Easter Break (4 Day Weekend)
• No School Friday 4/15 - Good Friday
• No School Monday 4/18 - Easter Monday

This Week In Photos (TWIP) 

Friday Gathering Video - 50 States!

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April Fools Day Prank! Ask your child if they enjoyed their Oreos!

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