Dec. 1st-5th (1st week of Trimester 2)!

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Note: Holiday Raffle & Gift Exchange Letters Are Copied Onto the Bottom of this Post!

• Community Building
• Morning Meeting
• VI March 
• ET Greeting
• Riddles
• Shares about break, least favorite school rules, rule they would make if head of school, & holiday raffle prize they are most excited for
• Cleaning, Organizing, & Changing Desks
• Fakhri's Birthday Celebration

• Math
• Beginning Cambridge Stage 6 Unit 1 - The Number System (Place Value - Standard vs. Expanded vs. Word Form, Multiplying and dividing a number by 10, 100, & 1,000, & Writing Fractions (tenths, hundreds, & thousandths) as decimals and vise versa
• Place Value Bingo activities
• Place Value Matching activity
• True or False Activity
• Notes

• Literacy (Read Aloud, Word Study, Reading, Writing)
• Starting our new read aloud, Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You, Adapted by Sonja Cherry-Paul (original authors: Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi)
• Starting Word Study List #3 - cut words out and open sort
• Presenting Book Club Newspapers
• Reading Articles & Picking Out the 5 Ws

• Science/Social Studies
• CNN10 & Notes
• Completing our first GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES CHALLENGE on communication over time (looking at survey & finding pictures for communication time periods, matting them, creating the timeline) - completing KWL chart from the beginning of the challenge will wrap up the challenge next week!
• Starting Our Watery Planet Unit - Hydrosphere & Water Distribution

  Exploration

• Homework
• Read 30+ min M-Th (weekend optional) - BOOK CLUB READING IF NEEDED
• Math HW Assignment
• Bring in Holiday Decorations
• Start Working on Homemade Gift Exchange

- Announcements - 

• Class Items We Still Need (optional donations)
• Madras Fabric for an Upcoming Social Studies Project (need before we start making the wire jumbies we need/want to start soon!)
• Spelling Bee - Class Bee is THIS MONDAY, Dec. 8th & School Bee (4th-8th Grades is THURSDAY Dec. 11th
  
  
  
• Holidays
• Raffle - Tickets Sale Next Week 12/8-12 (M-F) & Drawing on Tuesday 12/16
• LS Concert - 12/18
• 5th Grade Cookie Exchange For Students - 12/18
• 5th Grade Homemade Gift Exchange & Caroling Around Campus - 12/19
• Winter Break 12/20- 1/6 (notes: full day of school on 12/19 & school resumes 1/7)
  
  

- Photos (from book club newspaper presentations!) - 

Holiday Raffle Letter: 

Holiday Gift Exchange Letter:

Monday 11.10.25 through Thursday 11.20 (Friday 11.21 is a Faculty Workshop Day - No School for Students)

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• Community Building
• Morning Meeting
• VI March 
• Silly Mirror Face Greeting
• Gratitude Challenge Shares
• Gratitude Chain
• Veteran's Day Video, Kahoot!, Poem, & Poppy Pin Making Activity
• Taste of Thanksgiving Celebration
• Moko Jumbie Presentation (dancing & Ms. John as 5th grade guest speaker)
• Nooreen's Birthday Celebration

• Math
• Perimeter
• P = 2 times the length + 2 times width = length of all sides added together 
• 1-D
• Area of Rectangles
• A = length x width
• Volume of Rectangular Prisms
• V = length x width x height = base x height
• 3-D
• Units cubed
• Metric Conversions
• ex: 1 km = 1,000 m; 1 liter = 1,000 ml; 1 mg = 0.001 g
• Khdbdcm (ask your child what this stands for and how they remember)
• Graphing Coordinate Points
• Classifying Quadrilaterals
• Right, Acute, Obtuse, Straight, Reflex Angles
• Measurement & Geometry Assessment

• Literacy (Read Aloud, Word Study, Reading, Writing)
• Completing our read-aloud, Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson (historical fiction - American Revolution Setting)
• Completing their Book Club Newspaper
• Starting Journalism Unit for Writing and Non-Fiction Reading Units (reading current events & taking notes on the "5 Ws" from the article, and watching CNN10 and taking notes)

• Science/Social Studies
• Making Moko Jumbies out of Wire
• Continuing our first GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES CHALLENGE on communication over time
• Science Big Fish Ecosystem Game, Saving Laketown from Algae Activity, & Food Webs/Flow of Energy Lesson/Activity (Why did the dinosaurs go extinct?)

• Homework
• Read 30+ min M-Th (weekend optional) - BOOK CLUB READING IF NEEDED
• Math HW Assignment

- Announcements - 

• THANKSGIVING - THANK YOU FOR ALL HELP!
• NO SCHOOL TOMORROW, 11/21 (Faculty Day)
• NO SCHOOL NEXT WEEK 11/24 through 28th - THANKSGIVING BREAK
• PLEASE COME AND SUPPORT MS. HILL & THE USVI WOMEN'S NATIONAL SOCCER TEAM ON THANKSGIVING DAY!
• The Lady Dashing Eagles are back on home soil for a massive Women’s World Cup Qualifier!
  USVI vs St. Lucia

  Bethlehem Soccer Complex

  Thursday, November 27, 2025

  Kickoff: 4:00 PM AST
  Let’s pack Bethlehem Soccer Complex and lift our women to victory! Bring the noise, bring the pride, bring the VI energy!
  Purchase your tickets today!!

  https://www.usvisf.com/upcoming-events

  EMPOWER THE GAME. INSPIRE THE NATION. #USVISF #usvisoccer #nationalteam #womenssoccer #CONCACAF #empowerthegame #inspirethenation
• Class Items We Still Need (optional donations)
• Madras Fabric for an Upcoming Social Studies Project

- Photos (more on the class Instagram @ghcds5thgrade_2526) - 

10.27 through 11.7

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• Community Building
• Morning Meeting
• VI March 
• Greeting
• Halloween Activities/Mini Lessons (mummies, history of Halloween etc.)
• Boggle & Wordle
• Halloween Ghost Walk & Party!
• Celebrating Karsyn's Birthday!
• Silly Stringing Mr. Sinfield (Fun Run!)
• Publishing Party with Staff & 2nd Graders!

• Math
• Fractions Operations Practice, focusing on division
• Kentucky Chicken Fried Method (Keep, Change, Flip)
• ex: 1/4 divided by 2/3 = 1/4 x 3/2 = 3/8!
• Assessment on Fractions Operations (+, -, x, & div.)

• Literacy (Read Aloud, Word Study, Reading, Writing)
• Continuing Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson (historical fiction - American Revolution Setting)
• Completing List #2 Work & Quiz
• Starting their Book Club Newspaper
• Completing Our Personal Narrative Writing Unit & PUBLISHING PARTY - CONGRATS AUTHORS!

• Science/Social Studies
• Making Vejigante Masks - Paper Mache & Paint!
• Starting our first GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES CHALLENGE on communication over time
• Science Lessons on DEcomposers & Soil Nutrients (worms!) & Starting to Investigate Ecosystems & Matter Cycle (why do you have to clean a fish tank and not a pond?)

• Homework
• Read 30+ min M-Th (weekend optional) - BOOK CLUB READING IF NEEDED
• Math HW Assignment

- Announcements - 

• THANKSGIVING
• Our LS Thanksgiving Celebration is Approaching - be on the lookout for a sign-up via email from Ms. Thatcher with more details on the event
• Break Dates - No School Fri. 11/21 (Faculty Workshop Day) & Break Runs 11/22 through 11/30
• After School Activities (Fall Session) - ENDS 11/14
• Class Items We Still Need (optional donations)
• Madras Fabric for an Upcoming Social Studies Project

- Photos (more on the class Instagram @ghcds5thgrade_2526) -