PANTHER NEWS: October 2025

Tuesday, October 21, 2025

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VI March
Greetings - Growing Sound & Gesture (last week) & Halloween GReetings (this week)
Learning About Easter Island & Aztecs/Other Mexican Empires
Halloween Work - learning about mummies, writing a story from the perspective of a piece of candy, & trivia

Assessment on Fractions on 10.17 (no division in this assessment as previously planned)

Continuing Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson (historical fiction - American Revolution Setting)
Starting List # 2 (open sort, closed sort, rainbow writing, definitions, sentences, your pile, my pile, sped sorts, & whiteboard writing)
Completing Realistic/Historical Fiction Book Club Books - project next week
Reading skills taught - I.D. main characters & their problems leading to big/main ideas, being open to seeing book through other readers' eyes (through read aloud convos & book club discussions), Connecting Ideas to Form Theories
Continuing Personal Narrative Writing - typing, making cover, & editing

- Announcements -

Halloween is Approaching - sign up to volunteer to help out at our 4th-5th grade class party or donate supplies via the link below!

After School Activities (Fall Session) - 9/29 and runs through 11/14
Sign Up for YOUR Fall Conference via the link below if you haven't yet & thanks to those who I have met with already!

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

- Ask Your Child About -

VI March
Greetings - Growing Sound & Gesture (last week) & Silly Voice Echo (this week)
Hispanic Activists - Lizzie Velasquez, Roberto Clemente, Sophie Cruz, Sylvia Mendez, & Berta Caceres
Hispanic Inventors - Domingo Santo Liotta, Alejandro Zaffaroni, & Guillermo Gonzalez Camarena

Assessment on Rounding, Factors, Multiples, 4 operations with whole numbers including standard algorithms and turning a remainder into a fraction
Fraction Review and Extension of Skills - Comparing/converting tenths and hundredths, +/- Fractions with Unlike Denominators, Finding Fractions of Whole Numbers, Decomposing Fractions & Multiplying Fractions & Mixed Numbers
UPCOMING: FRACTIONS ASSESSMENT NEXT WEEK ON ABOVE SKILLS + DIVIDING FRACTIONS
"Fraction Stuff" notes from 10/8 for insight into strategies I taught them (they loved the title!):

Completing Class Dismissed, by Allan Woodrow
Starting Chains, by Laurie Halse Anderson (historical fiction - American Revolution Setting)
Finishing Word Study List #1 (including quiz & retake if needed)
Starting Realistic/Historical Fiction Book Clubs
Continuing Personal Narrative Writing - partner feedback, editing checklist, flash drafting, story arc outlines