1.26.24

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• Community Building 
• Morning Meeting
• 2 Truths & 1 Lie 
• I Wish My Teacher Knew Share 
• Boggle 
• Friday Gathering 
• Ms. Coles' middle schoolers presented on composting 
• GAINS Lesson - Ms. Velez
• Congratulations to Johnathan for being nominated by his teachers for most flexible thinker!

• Writing
• Published Ag Fair Soil Poems
• Informational Booklets on Pre-Revolutionary War
• Planning using a table of contents 
• Drafting using research notes 

• Reading
• Continued Reading I Survived the American Revolution by Lauren Tarshis
• Paraphrasing in note taking 
• Choosing a group topic to research from the options below:
• Colonial America 
• French & Indian War
• British Taxes 
• Boston, Massachusetts 

• Word Study 
• Starting New Word Study Groups/List
• Open Sort, Word Search, Crossword Puzzle, Closed Sort, Rainbow Writing

• Math
• Continuing to Update January Calendar (similar figures) & Collection (representing quarters as mixed numbers, improper fractions, & decimals)
• Playing Division Capture
• Fractions on a Geoboard (modeling, comparing, adding, subtracting, & playing the Last Equation Wins Game)

 

• Science/Health & Wellness
• Completing Identity Portraits (see photos below & more on our class Instagram!)
• Weathering & Erosion Exploration 
• What happens to rocks over time?
• Root wedging
• Ice Wedging

Announcements:

• Monday, Jan. 29th - Lower School Afterschool Clubs Begin Next Week!
• Clubs meet from 3:45 to 4:30pm 
• Sign Up Form HERE

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1.19.24

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• Community Building 
• Happy Birthday, Johnathan!
• Morning Meeting
• Closed Eyes Greeting
• MLK Video & SHare Out (if MLK was alive today, what is one thing you would want to tell him about our world today?)
• Athletes Becoming Activists
• Agitators - Frederick Douglass & Susan B. Anthony

• Writing
• Historical Note Taking 
• Timelines, Diagrams, and Recording Sources 
• Ag Fair Poem Contest 
• Topic: Soil

• Reading
• STAR Reading Check-Point 
• American Revolution Research 
• Pre War Topics - How did the war begin? 
• Answering the 5 Ws 
• Using a table of contents 
• Text structures 
• BUDDY READING! 
• Today was our first week of meeting with our Kindergarten Reading Buddies!

• Math
• Continuing to Update Our Calendar Pattern (Similar Figures & Their Areas) and Collection (3 Quarters a Day)
• Similar Figures on the Geoboard
• (Reverse) Area Model for Division - building up vs. breaking down
  
  
  

• More Egg Carton Fractions (i.e. finding equivalent fractions dealing with halves, thirds, fourths, sixths, and twelfths)
• Equivalent Fractions Checkpoint

• Health & Wellness/Read Aloud/Word Study
• GAINS Monthly Lesson 
• Ms. Velez taught us about Railroad vs. Flexible Thinking
• Continuing to Work on Identity Portraits - Almost Done!
• Continuing to Read I Survived the American Revolution, 1776
• Starting New Word Study Groups & List

Announcements:

• Friday, Jan. 19th - Spaghetti BINGO at 5-7pm in Pavilion 
• Monday, Jan. 29th - Lower Schol Clubs Begin!
• Be on the lookout for the club signup sheet SOON
• Clubs will run for 6 weeks - ending the week before Spring Break

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1.12.24

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• Community Building 
• Morning Meeting
• Happy Birthday, Rock!
• Happy New Year Greeting in Different Languages 
• Spanish, French, German, Mandarin, & Hebrew
• Making Resolutions 
• Boggle 
• MLK Jr.'s Birthday 

• Writing
• Writing SMART Goals 
• 2024 Agomograph 
• Letter to MLK Jr.

• Reading
• Reading SMART Goals 
• Started Unit 3!
• PreAssessment on Ellis Island 
• Research on Colonial America 

• Math
• Starting January Calendar Pattern and Collection
• Similar figures
• 3 quarters a day
• Using a # Line to Recognize Patterns in Division & Multiplication Problems (fact families)
• Started Our Unit on Fractions (see family letter below about the unit)
• Fair shares
• Making fraction strips 
• using them to represent different fractions and turn improper fractions into mixed numbers and vise versa
• Egg carton fractions

• Read Aloud/Word Study/Health & Wellness
• Starting New Read Aloud: I Survived the American Revolution, 1776 by Lauren Tarshis
• Historical notes to go along with the novel
• National 4th Graders Day Work (in place of word study this week)
• Reflection & advice for 3rd graders
• Making crowns
• Mid-Year Spelling Inventory (for those who were absent before break)
• Continued Working on IDentity Portraits

Announcements:

• No School This Monday, January 15th - MLK Day
• Announcement From Robyn Brunson
• Cambridge International Sessions for Lower School Parents - Parents, join school administrators on Wednesday, Jan. 17, from 4 - 5 p.m. for updates on our implementation of Cambridge International and the exciting plans for the 2024-25 school year. Please feel free to leave your little ones in After Care (free of charge) and join us for an engaging session! 

Math Unit 3 Family Letter: