10.27 through 11.7

 - Ask Your Child About - 

• 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) -