10.14 through 10.23

  - Ask Your Child About - 

• Community Building
• Morning Meeting
• 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
• Soccer Training Morning with Concacaf Coaches
• Making Origami Bats
• Earthquake/Tsunami Procedures
• Celebrating Dylan's Birthday!
• Celebrating Riley's Birthday!
• Celebrating Dane's Birthday!

• Math
• Assessment on Fractions on 10.17 (no division in this assessment as previously planned)
• Adding & Subtracting
• Finding Fraction of a Whole
• Multiplying Fractions
• Continuing to work with fractions (+, -, x, & equivalent fractions)
• Review Work with Sub (Khan Academy, Review Packet, & Jeopardy)

• Literacy (Read Aloud, Word Study, Reading, Writing)
• 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

• Science/Social Studies
• VI/PR Friendship Day & Making Vejigante Masks
• Monthly Class SEL Lesson w/ Ms. Bird
• Identity, Insecurities, & Mask Activity

• Homework
• Read 30+ min M-Th (weekend optional) - BOOK CLUB READING IF NEEDED
• No Math HW this past week but back to regular scheduled HW next week!
• Bring in an empty glass jar

- 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!
• https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0A4BAAAF2DA2FB6-59360538-2025#/
• 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!
• https://www.signupgenius.com/go/60B0A4BAAAF2DA2FB6-59006673-5thgrade#/
• Class Items We Still Need (optional donations)
• HAND SANITIZER
• Madras Fabric for an Upcoming Social Studies Project

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