4.12.24

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• Community Building 
• Morning Meeting
• Eyes Closed Greeting 
• Zip, Zap, Zoop
• Follow the Leader
• Friday Gathering in the Library 
• 5th Grade presented on STEM Fair

• Writing
• Unit 4: Literary Essays 
• Choosing a Text 
• Brainstorming by Asking Questions 
• Conversing using sentence starters

• Reading
• New Unit - Historical Fiction Book Clubs 
• Summarizing practice 
• Asking deeper questions 
• How to lead a book club conversation 

• Read Aloud 
• Number the Stars by Lois Lowry

• Word Study
• Blind Sort, Glue Sort, & Spelling Check-in

• Math
• Continuing April Calendar Pattern (perimeter)
• Starting April Calendar Collection (adding decimeters and converting to centimeters)
• Intro to Line Plots & Data Set Terms (minimum, maximum, range, mode, and median)
• Playing Color 10 with 3rds, 6ths, and 12ths
• Playing Target 5 Subtraction Game
• Time & Volume Story Problems

• Social Studies
• Government Types (communism, democracy, dictatorship, monarchy, empire, theocracy)
• Our Federal Government (republic, constitutional democracy)
• Starting State Project - Research & Setting up Slideshow

Announcements

• GHCDS SPRING MUSICAL 
• The Music Man - April 19th - 20th, 26th-28th, May 3rd-4th

• SUMMER PLANNING!