January 27, 2023- Weekly News

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• Community Building 
• Welcome Mrs. Abdel!
• We're so excited to have you join our class community!
• Get to Know You Game: 2 Truths, 1 Lie
• Lunar New Year 
• Year of the Rabbit Origami 
• Friday Gathering- 2nd Grade Chinese New Year Presentation 
• Reading 
• Unit 2 Post Assessment - Informational Comprehension Check 
• Completed Natural Disaster News Reports
• Film project starts next week!
• Writing
• Finished 2nd Persuasive Essays
• Publishing Party next week!
• Word Study
• Unit 6 Spelling Check-In
• Math  
• Number Corner
• Continuing to identify and calculate the area of similar figures
• Representing different amounts of quarters as an improper fraction, mixed number, and decimal
• ex. 27 quarters = 27/4 = 6 3/4 = $6.75
• Division Capture Game - Class vs. Ms. Hill
• Representing and Comparing Fractions on a Geoboard
• Comparing, Adding, and Subtracting Fractions Using a Geoboard and/or Egg Carton Diagram
• Adding Fractions Using a Number Line and Ratio Table
• Dozens of Eggs Game - Class vs. Ms. Hill
• Health & Wellness
• G.A.IN.S Lesson with Ms. Velez
• More about the brain
• Working on Slides About Their Identity

Announcements:

• Wednesday, February 1st: GLOBAL PLAY DAY
• Students are allowed to bring in games from home to share with classmates. Please, make sure they choose group-based games- cards, board games, building sets, etc. 
• NO TECHNOLOGY!
• Friday, February 3rd: Parent Conferences - NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS!
• All conference time slots have been emailed. Please, confirm with us whether you'd prefer to meet in person or virtually. 
• Tuesday, February 14th: Valentine's Day
• Class Celebration: Students are encouraged to bring in cards, candy, or other little gifts.
• Please make sure to bring enough for all 20 students. 
• CUPCAKE COMPETITION! (Optional) Be on the look our for the directions next week. 
• February 17th & 20th - NO SCHOOL due to Faculty Workshop & President's Day
• Enjoy the Agriculture & Food Fair!
• See Flyer Below About the Upcoming Book and Toy Drive Hosted By Mrs. Hutchins' Middle School Advisory
• ADHD Summer Camp Webinar
• Click here to purchase a GHCDS Yearbook

This Week in Pictures: 

January 20, 2023- Weekly News

  Ask Your Child About...

• Community Building 
• American Activists following in MLK's footsteps
• Reading 
• Unit 2- Informational Texts
• Paraphrasing research on extreme weather 
• Identifying subcategories 
• Planning to write a news report script 
• Writing
• Unit 2- Persuasive Essays
• Reading scholastic articles to gather research as evidence 
• Interviewing teachers and peers on campus
• Planning for an essay using an outline 
• Math  
• Number Corner
• Continued making observations about our Jan. Calendar
• ex. area is doubling in each pair of shapes
• Jan. Collection 
• Adding 3 quarters a day and representing the total as a fraction and decimal amount
• Representing Fractional Amounts on an Egg Carton 
• Showing Equivalent Fractions Using an Egg Carton
• Equivalent Fractions Checkpoint Assessment
• Using the Geoboard to Represent Unit Fractions
• Science / Health & Wellness
• Mrs. Bird's Visit
• Negative vs. hype thoughts
• Alternative to using words like always and never in negative thoughts
• Ms. Velez's Visit
• Continuing lessons on our brain
• Intro to Identity Unit

Announcements:

• Monday, January 23rd: Afterschool Clubs Begin
• Friday, January 27th: Makeup picture day for students who were absent for the initial picture day back in October. See below for the respective times:
  8:30-8:45: N-K
  8:45-9:15: Gr7-12

  9:15-9:45: Gr1-6
• Friday, February 3rd: Parent Conferences 
• Unlike the first round of conferences, this will be by request only and not for all students. Either the teacher will email parents to request a conference or parents can request a conference if they don't hear from the teacher and have concerns.
• ADHD Summer Camp Webinar
• Click here to purchase a GHCDS Yearbook

This Week in Pictures: 

1.13.23 - Happy New Year!

 Ask Your Child About...

• Community Building 
• Happy Birthday, Nora and Lux (belated)
• WELCOME to our class, Olivia and Orion!
• Since our class has grown quite large since school first started (20 total now), we are in the process of hiring a teacher's aide. As a small, private school, we pride ourselves on having a small teacher to student ratio so that all students get the 1:1 time they deserve to be successful. We will inform you of who we choose once the interview process is complete. 
• New Years Resolutions 
• Honoring MLK Jr. - I have a dream reflection 
• 6th Grade Friday Gathering 
• MLK Jr. 
• Reading 
• Unit 2- Informational Texts
• Round two of our extreme weather unit has us focusing on: avalanches, wildfires, droughts, and floods. Ask your child which natural disaster they're studying!
• Read Aloud
• Zane and the Hurricane by Rodman Philbrick 
• New class chapter book about Hurricane Katrina 
• Those Shoes by Maribeth Boelts 
• Picture book about empathy used to update our Class Charter
• Word Study 
• Homophone Memory Game
• Optional Spelling Homework (sent home ) 
• Writing
• Unit 2- Persuasive Essays
• New Focus: Opinions about the world. 
• Moving away from personal statements and doing more research based essays.
• Ask your child what their thesis statement is for their current persuasive essay!
• Math  
• Number Corner
• January Calendar Pattern 
• Naming shapes and their properties on a grid and finding their area
• Fractions on a Number Line (halves, fourths, and eighths)
• Division Strategies Problem String
• Relating Multiplication to Division (i.e. the relation between 10 x 9 and 90 / 10)
• Reviewing Skills
• Fair Shares - how to share food, money, and time resulting in fractional amounts
• Making Fractions Strips (that represent a whole, halves, thirds, fourths, sixths, eighths, twelfths, and sixteenths) 
• Using Fraction Strips to represent improper fractions as a mixed number and vice versa 
• Representing a Whole When You Know the Fraction
• Science / Health & Wellness
• Continuing our Unit on Volcanoes
• Ring of Fire
• Cone vs. Shield Volcano
• Continuing Multiple Intelligences Work

Announcements:

• Monday, January 16th: NO SCHOOL in Honor of MLK Jr. Day
• Click here to purchase a GHCDS Yearbook
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