March Update!

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• Community Building
• Morning Meeting
• VI March
• Greeting
• Celebrating Women's History Month & VI History Month (ex: Queen Mary & Fireburn Labor Revolt, Malala, & Michelle O'Bama)
• March Madness NCAA Bracket Competitions (women's & men's)!
• Lower School Eid Celebration

• Friday Gathering
• Cupcake Contest Check Presentation to LION HAVEN ($408 raised!!)
• Celebrating VI History Month with a Group VI March Choral Sing
• Celebrating March Birthdays

• Spring Bulletin & Door Decorating

• Math
• Working on Unit 5 - 2D Shapes
• Classifying Quadrilaterals
  
  
  
• Circles - parts & drawing with a compass (note: they don't need to know area & circumference formulas yet)

  

  
  

• Literacy (Read Aloud, Word Study, Reading, Writing)
• Reading Buddies with 1st Grade
• Completing our New Read Aloud,  Warriors Don't Cry, by: Melba Pattillo Beals
• Writing Letters to Ms. Pattillo-Beals
• Voting on Our Fantasy Genre Read Aloud
• Ranking Fantasy Book Club Novels - clubs to start next week!!
• Graphic Novels: sketching, summaries, plot diagrams, & bookmaps
• Completing & Presenting Civil Rights Slide Shows

• Science/Social Studies
• CNN10
• STEM Fair - congrats to all student participants on a wonderful STEM Fair and a special shout out to Fakhri & Dane for winning the ENVIRONMENTAL AWARD!

• Continuing Watery Planet Unit
• Groundwater as a Natural Resource
• Water Cycle

• Homework
• Read 30+ Min. each night
• Math Due Fridays

- Announcements - 

• We are in desperate need for more tissues - donations encouraged!!
• Trimester 2 Report Cards Were Sent Out VIA Email Friday 3/20 (if you didn't receive your child's or you have a question/concern, please email khill@ghcds.org)
• Spring Conference Day is Next Thursday, 4/2 (by invitation/request only)
• Thanks to all who attended/supported USVI soccer in our match vs. PR. It was amazing to have the support and it looked like the kids had a blast!!