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
- This Week In Pictures:
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