4.27.26-5.13.26

- Announcements - 

• WE LEAVE FOR THE MOUNT VICTORY OVERNIGHT FIELD TRIP TMRW (Thursday)!
• Please read the attached PDF on the email sent out today. 
• End of Year Dates
• Memorial Day (School Closed) - Monday, May 25th
• 5th Grade Math & Reading STAR Assessments - Week of May 26th
• Spring Sports Banquet - Friday, May 29th @ 6pm in the Pavilion
• Spring Concert - Tuesday, June 2nd @ 845am
• 5th Grade Beach Day - Monday, June 8th (more info to come)
• Lower School Field Day - Wednesday, June 10th @1pm

- Ask Your Child About - 

• Community Building
• Morning Meeting
• Starting Work on Ms. Bird's Mural (This week: Shaving Cream Paintings!)
• Walking the GHCDS Nature Trail
• Book Madness Gathering & Final Voting - Ask your child which book won the 2026 competition!
  

• Math
• Fraction, Decimal, & Percent Conversions
• Fraction, Decimal, & Percent Equivalencies and Comparisons
• Games for Fluency (First to 100, Who Scores the Goal, & Dec/Fraction Equivalencies Bingo)
• Unit Assessment (Fractions and Percentages) will be NEXT WEEK!
• Next Unit - Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, & Division with Decimals

• Literacy (Read Aloud, Word Study, Reading, Writing)
• Continuing our Chronicles of Narnia Series for Read Aloud: Prince Caspian
• Completing Fantasy Book Club Novels & Starting to Work on Group Presentations
• Completing Writing Graphic Novels (COMIC-CON NEXT WEEK - INVITE BELOW)
• Reading Buddies
• Spelling/Vocab List
• Definitions, Packets, Sentences/Paragraph, & Quiz

• Science/Social Studies
• CNN10
• Mapping North, Central, South America & the Caribbean
• Mapping Practice Game - they will be tested on their knowledge of all the countries in the Americas in a few weeks!
• US history time periods of interest - research
• Earth's Rotation & Daily Shadow Patterns - creating a Sun Dial

• Homework
• Read 30+ Min. each night (any unfinished book club goals needs to be a priority)
• Graphic Novels - extension to finish over the weekend and bring back to school on Monday (if needed)
• No math HW this past week (there was an extension on last week's HW for those who didn't turn it in!)

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