9.2.25 through 9.12.25

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• Community Building
• Morning Meeting
• VI March 
• 4th -6th Grade Activities
• A-Z Scavenger Hunt
• More Trivia
• Steal the Stuffy
• Choice Time
• Welcoming Class Visitors for a Shadow Day
• Katelyn (& she is now officially part of the GHCDS community!)
• Malakai
• Friday Gathering 9.5.25
• New Student Intros (Welcomed Karsyn, Ben, & Marin!)

• Math
• Math Autobiography
• Reviewed Place Value, Rounding, and Addition & Subtraction Standard Algorithms
• Reviewed Multiplication - Focusing on Solidifying Mult. Facts using good old fashioned flash cards and playing multiplication war, & multi-digit multiplication strategies (ratio table, area model, partial products, and standard algorithm)
• Multiplying by powers of 10 (i.e. 23 x 2 = 46, so 23 x 20 = 460 and 230 x 200 = 46,000)
• 6s-8s Facts Quiz (9s-12s Quiz will be Next Week!)

Ratio Table:

Doubling & Halving Strategy:

Area Model/Array to Algorithm:

• Literacy (Read Aloud, Word Study, Reading, Writing)
• Class Dismissed, by Allan Woodrow
• Decorating Reading and Writing Journals
• Sketching and Painting Creative Book Covers
• Sharing Story of My Name Homework Assignment & Summer Top Pics Class Assignment
• Writing Story Grids - Character, Setting, Object, Situation

• Science/Social Studies
• Summer Top Pics Slide Creation & Share
• SEL Lesson w/ Ms. Bird (zones of development (blue, green, yellow, & red)
• Starting Our First Science Unit: Ecosystems & the Food Web
• Food Chain & Matter Flow (Activity: Eat & Be Eaten Game)
• STX Culture - Music (Quelbe, Calypso, Reggae, Soca, Zouk)
• 9/11 Lesson/Discussion
• Setting Up Science/Social Studies Binders

• Homework
• Read 30+ min M-Th (weekend optional)
• Weekly Math HW

- Announcements - 

• Tuesday, 9/16: STAR Math Assessment
• Wednesday, 9/17: STAR Reading Assessment
• Thursday, September 25th @4pm: Parent Information Afternoon (meet in Pavilion for greeting from Admin and light refreshments and then pick up your child from the playground and meet me in our classroom!)
• After School Activities (Fall Session) begins 9/29 and runs through 11/14
• Run Club - Thursdays
• Friday, October 24th: Fall Conference Day (more information to come)
• Class Items We Still Need (optional donations)
• SHARPIES (all colors and sizes)
• Amazon Wishlist Link! 

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