Tuesday 1.20.26 through Friday 1.30.26

    - Ask Your Child About - 

• Community Building
• Morning Meeting
• VI March 
• Daily Greeting
• Bogle
• Wordle
• 2 Truths & A Lie Challenges
• Sharing what they love about themselves, their family, and school
• Starting Reading Buddies with 1st Grade! (see photos below!)

• Math
• Cambridge Stage 6 Unit 2 Assessment on Sequences/Function Machines, Special Numbers (particularly squared & cubed), & Common Factors and Multiples
• Cambridge Stage 6 Unit 3 - Averages Lessons, Practice, & Assessment
• Median, Mode, Mean, Range, & Mean

• Literacy (Read Aloud, Word Study, Reading, Writing)
• Morning independent reading
• Continuing One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia
• Continuing Researching for our Civil Rights Essays - books & articles & notes

• Science/Social Studies
• CNN10
• Continuing STEM FAIR Work - Purpose, Research, Background Paragraph
• AgFair STX Fruit Slides!

• Homework
• Math - 1 Assignment Per Week
• Read 30+ min./night
• Check STEM FAIR CAL FOR DEADLINES & remember that we will be working on STEM Fair each day at school. If students need more time, they may work at home on assignments as well.

- Announcements - 

• Ms. Hill is out Fri. 1/30 & Mon. Feb. 2nd - Traveling for Soccer (Mrs. Vaughn is my sub!)
• Thursday, Feb. 5th - KAYAKING FIELD TRIP with Bush Tribe (permission slip and waiver due Tues. Feb. 3rd)
• Permission Slip Due on Monday
• Friday, Feb. 13th - Valentine's Day Card Exchange & Cupcake Contest
• Students will need to bring in a box to decorate for Valentine's cards/treats exchange
• Contest info will be sent home on Monday, Feb. 2nd
• Monday, Feb. 16th - President's Day
• Tuesday, Feb. 17th - NO SWIM, regular PE instead (sharing pool with National Guard)

- Photos - 

1.7.26 through 1.16.26

   - Ask Your Child About - 

• Community Building
• Morning Meeting
• VI March 
• New Years Resolutions/Traditions
• Closed Eyed Greeting
• MLK/History mini Lessons - MLK Day Significance, Susan B. Anthony & Frederick Douglass Legacies,  Athletes who became activists (Tommie Smith & John Carlos, Colin Kaepernick), Kahoot on Black History, & Activism through Music (specifically Hip Hop)
• SEL Lesson w/ Ms. Bird on Identity (what people can see vs. what they need to get to know you to learn) & Making Identity Avocados!
• Celebrating Reagan & Ian's Birthdays! 
  
  
  

• Math
• Cambridge Stage 6 Unit 1 Part 2 - The Number System (Rounding - to the nearest whole, tenth, & hundredth)
• U1 Assessment
• Continuing Cambridge Stage 6 Unit 2 Part 1 - Sequences/Patterns/Rules
• Cambridge Stage 6 Unit 2 Part 2 - Special Numbers (focusing on squared & cubed)
• Cambridge Stage 6 Unit 2 Part 3 - Common Multiples and Factors (ask your child about factor bugs!)
• Unit 2 Review & Assessment Next Week!

• Literacy (Read Aloud, Word Study, Reading, Writing)
• Morning independent reading
• Starting Our New Read Aloud, One Crazy Summer, by Rita Williams-Garcia
• Researching for our Civil Rights Essays - with classroom books and books they checked out from our GCHDS library (thanks, Ms. Alma!)

• Science/Social Studies
• CNN10
• Starting STEM FAIR Work - Overview, Topic Brainstorming & Forming
• Solidifying Question/Group for STEM fair & approval by parents/guardians
• Making Wire Moko Jumbies & Designing a Costume Out of Madras Fabric
• Creating a VI flag/hats/masks etc. for their Jumbie 

• Homework
• Math - 1 Assignment Per Week
• Read 30+ min./night
• Check STEM FAIR CAL FOR DEADLINES & remember that we will be working on STEM Fair each day at school. If students need more time, they may work at home on assignments as well. Next week: Research (Note Cards) Due, Sources List Due, Background Paragraph Due
• OPTIONAL - AGFair Assignments (poetry assignment will be required in school) - see email attachment from Ms. Hill

- Announcements - 

• MLK Day - No School this Monday, January 19th

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