Wednesday, October 8, 2025

9.29.25 through 10.9.25

 Ask Your Child About - 

  • Community Building
    • Morning Meeting
      • 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
    • Celebrating Katelyn's Birthday!
    • School Photo Day
    • FUN RUN!
    • Field Trip to CMCArts, Park for Lunch and Playing, & Pollys for Ice Cream
  • Math
    • 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!):



  • Literacy (Read Aloud, Word Study, Reading, Writing)
    • 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
  • Science/Social Studies
    • Continuing STX/VI Culture
    • Web of Life Lesson 3 - Decomposers & Matter Flow (Where did all the leaves go? - activity)
  • Homework
    • Read 30+ min M-Th (weekend optional) - BOOK CLUB READING IF NEEDED
    • Weekly Math HW
    • Return Signed Math Assessment
- Announcements - 
  • Hispanic Heritage Week - Next week:


































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

See Separate Blog Posts for Fun Run & Field Trip Photos!

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