February 24, 2023- Weekly News

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• Community Building 
• Frederiksted Field Trip!
• Students had a blast learning about the history of the fort, playing on the playground, and enjoying ice cream at Polly's. It is so important to understand the rich history of the beautiful island we live on. Thank you to chaperones who joined and to all parents for paying the tour guide fee!
• Black History Bios.
• Muhhamad Ali, John Lewis, Ray Charles, Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Sarah Breedlove, Jacob Lawrence, and Faith Ringgold 
• Reading 
• Unit 3: The Revolutionary War
• Shifted our focus from causes of the war to the battles and war itself (1775-1783)
• Students are researching in order to prepare to write their 2nd informational booklet
• Read Aloud
• Picture Book: Because of You, John Lewis by Andrew Davis Pinkney 
• New Chapter Book: I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
• Writing
• Unit 3: Writing About History 
• Completed first informational booklet on a pre-war American Revolution topic
• Using a checklist to self assess 
• Peer Feedback 
• Adding Illustrations and Diagrams
• Word Study
• Check your child's homework folder for their new word list!
• Health/Wellness
• Sharing Out Bio Poems with the Class
• Math  
• Number Corner
• Drawing Different Triangles, Rhombuses, Parallelograms, and Trapezoids
• Rounding to the Nearest Ten, Hundred, and Thousand
• Using the Great Wall of Base Ten to Identify Different Numbers
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Announcements:

• Saturday, February 25th: GHCDS Gala
• Wednesday, March 1st: Scholastic Book Order Due Online 
• March 13th - 17th: SPRING BREAK!

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February 16, 2023- Weekly News

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• Community Building 
• Valentine's Day Fun!
• Cupcake Contest: Congratulations to Hazel (1st Best Decorated), Emma (3rd Best Decorated), and Lucia (3rd Best Tasting)
• Thank you to all parents for sending in treats for our Valentine exchange!
• Black History Bios.
• Booker T. Washington, Serena Williams, Mary Jackson, Dorothy Vaughan, Rita Dove, Oprah Winfrey, Michael Jordan, and Langston Hughes  
• Reading 
• Unit 3: The Revolutionary War
• Goal Setting 
• Synthesizing information from multiple texts to paraphrase
• Primary vs. Secondary Sources 
• Read Aloud
• Finished Zane & The Hurricane by Rodman Philbrick 
• Writing
• Unit 3: Writing About History 
• Drafting informational booklets 
• Using notes as a reference for facts 
• Choosing a perspective for a historical narrative
• Social Studies 
• Landforms of the United States
• Mountains, canyons, plateaus, lakes, rivers, and plains 
• Relative vs. Absolute Location 
• Health/Wellness
• Ms. Velez's Lesson on Task Initiation
• Finishing Bio Poems - Finger Painting! 
• Math  
• Number Corner
• Continuing the Feb. Calendar
• Instead of different angles each day, we have transitioned to adding line segments each day to create different triangles
• Adding Fractions with Unlike Denominators by Thinking About Money
• Making a Human Number Line Outside to Order Fractions and Decimals
• Unit 3 Jeopardy Review Game
• Unit 3 Assessment

Announcements:

• February 17th & 20th - NO SCHOOL due to Faculty Workshop & President's Day
• Enjoy the Agriculture & Food Fair!
• Thursday, February 23rd- Field Trip to Frederiksted Fort!
• Please sign the permission slip and return with the $8 tour guide fee. 
• Saturday, February 25th- GHCDS Gala

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February 10, 2023- Weekly News

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• Community Building 
• Happy Birthday, Orion!
• Sign Language Greetings 
• Reading Buddies- Kindergarten will be visiting every Friday for 20 minutes to be read to by their 4th grade reading buddies!
• Black History Bios.
• Kamala Harris, Simone Biles, Prince, Kobe Bryant, Katherine Johnson, Sojourner Truth, Jesse Owens, Shirley Chisolm, Maya Angelou, & Frederick Douglass 
• Reading 
• Unit 3: The Revolutionary War
• Paraphrasing Strategy: The Four W's (Who? When? Where? What?)
• Note Taking Do's and Don'ts 
• Researching Pre-War Events 
• Writing
• Unit 3: Writing About History 
• Selecting a pre-war topic 
• Planning each chapter of an informational booklet by creating a table of contents 
• Agriculture Fair Poetry Contest (All students' poems will be on display at the GHCDS Ag. Fair booth in the form of a class anthology.) 
• Congratulations to the 5 students whose poems were chosen to enter the contest!
• Simon, Sarima, Nora, Lux, and Orion!
• Social Studies 
• Started our US Geography Unit 
• Map labeling: equator, prime meridian, and four hemispheres 
• Health/Wellness
• Continued writing bio poems
• Math  
• Number Corner
• Continuing our February Calendar Pattern
• Adding 45 degrees to our angle each day
• Zero vs. acute vs. obtuse vs. straight vs. reflex angles
• Decomposing Fractions Problem String 
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• Thinking About 10ths and 100ths 
• Building and adding fractions with Base 10 pieces
• Taking the Fraction and Decimals Checkpoint Assessment
• Work Station Games
• Decimal 4 Spins to Win
• Decimal More or Less 
• Fractions and Decimals

Announcements:

• Supplies Needed: It's that time of year where we're running out of things and needing a few parents to donate. Here are the things we're low on: tissues, paper plates, and plastic utensils
• Sunday, February 12- Valentine Jr. Duathlon: See flyer below 
• Tuesday, February 14th: Valentine's Day
• Class Celebration: Students are encouraged to bring in cards, candy, or other little gifts.
• Class roster attached to the weekly Friday email.
• CUPCAKE COMPETITION! (Optional) Permission slips must be signed by parents 
• February 17th & 20th - NO SCHOOL due to Faculty Workshop & President's Day
• Enjoy the Agriculture & Food Fair!
• ADHD Summer Camp Webinar
• Click here to purchase a GHCDS Yearbook

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February 3, 2023 - Weekly News

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• Community Building 
• Happy Birthday, Ramsey!
• Global Play Day
• Black History Bios
• Thurgood Marshall, Amanda Gorman, Jackie Robinson, & George Washington Carver
• Reading 
• Started Unit 3 
• The American Revolution
• Video Project on VIMEO
• Extreme Weather News Report (videos coming soon!)
• Writing
• Agriculture Fair Poetry Contest 
• Top entries will be chosen to represent GHCDS Lower School in the competition
• Ag Fair Theme: Today for Tomorrow- You, Me, All Ah We!
• Math  
• Number Corner
• Wrapping Up our January Calendar Pattern and Collection of Quarters
• Playing Division Capture with a Partner
• Multistep Division Story Problems - no remainder & with remainders
• Starting the February Calendar Pattern - angles 
• Multiplying Whole Numbers By Fractions 
• ex. 5 x 3/4 = 5 x ( 3 x 1/4) = (5x3) x 1/4 = 15 x 1/4 = 15/4 = 3 3/4
• Using Base 10 Pieces to Represent Fractions as Decimals
• Using Base 10 Pieces to Compare Decimals using < or > signs
• ex. 
   so 1.09 < 1.2
  
  
• Health & Wellness
• Optional Shares about Our Identities (what you can see, not see, what you are proud of, etc.)
• Bio Poems 

Announcements:

• Sunday, February 12: Valentine Jr. Duathlon: Information attached to weekly Friday email
• 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) Permission slip sent home this week
• February 17th & 20th - NO SCHOOL due to Faculty Workshop & President's Day
• Enjoy the Agriculture & Food Fair!
• ADHD Summer Camp Webinar
• Click here to purchase a GHCDS Yearbook

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