Friday, September 2, 2022

First Week of School!

Welcome to our blog!  Our blog is our newsletter.  Each Friday (except some shorter weeks), we will post bullet points of what we did for the week.  The intention is that it will spark conversations and get your student to share the details with you.  We also include important dates and reminders as needed.  

Ask Your Child About: 

  • Community Building 
    • Adjective Name Game 
    • Who's Who: Teacher Edition 
    • Class Charter 
    • Playground Games with 5th Grade 
    • Ms. Bird Introduction 
  • Routines & Procedures 
    • Classroom Scavenger Hunt 
    • Flex Seats 
  • Reading
    • Alma by Juana Martinez-Neal 
    • We Don't Eat Our Classmates by Ryan T. Higgins 
    • Each Kindness by Jaqueline Woodson 
  • Writing 
    • Letter to Self 
    • Name Story Share Out
  • Math 
    • Name Symmetry
    • Glyphs
    • Math Autobiography (used class Chromebooks for the first time!)
    • Survey
  • Science
    • Marshmallow & Spaghetti Challenge

Important Dates and Reminders:

  • Monday, September 5th:  Labor Day/No School
  • Thursday, September 22nd:  Lower School Parent Information Night - 6pm

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  • If anyone can/wants to donate a bottle of oil for a Science activity we are doing next Thursday that would be greatly appreciated (olive, canola, & vegetable all work)
  • Please have your child bring in their Art sketchbook if they have yet to do so
  • Next week the Early Learning Center will start the color day unit. You can support the children by wearing an article of clothing (dress, shirt, pants, socks, shoes, ribbon etc.,) to represent the color of the day.

The color days schedule is as follow:

Tuesday, September 6, 2022: Red Day

Wednesday, September 7, 2022: Blue Day

Thursday, September 8, 2022: Yellow Day

Friday, September 9, 2022: Orange Day

Monday, September 12, 2022: Green Day

Tuesday, September 13, 2022: Purple Day

Wednesday, September 14, 2022: Brown Day

Thursday September 15, 2022: Black and White Day

Friday, September 16, 2022: Rainbow Day    


This Week in Photos (TWIP) 

Please be sure to follow our private class Instagram for more photos each week @ghcds4th_2022  







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