10/10/25

  Announcements - 

* This coming Wed afternoon through Monday, I will be off island. Ms. Marlow will be my substitute. If you need anything, please contact the school. I will be available in case of emergencies via text/email.

• Fun Run points that your child earned should be available online. Follow the link from their page to the booster store and use them up :)

• Now - 10/15 - Can Food Drive for World Food Day (6th Grade is hosting!) 

            BRING IN THOSE CANS!!!

• 10/13  No School - VI PR Friendship Day
• 10/24  Parent-Teacher Conferences (staff are scheduling sibbling conferences, then I can let you know your exact time. If you need to schedule for another day, just let me know.)
• 10/31  Halloween Ghost Walk (costume parade) and Boo Bash/Trunk-or-treat (I don't plan to have a "party" in class, as I know the sweet treats are flowing over several days for some of your children, but if a parent wished to send in a healthy afternoon snack that would be fine.)

 - Ask Your Child About - 

• Morning Meeting, wellness/personal growth
• We reviewed appropriate use of school computers at home. This week they've had Adventure Stories and a Spanish essay that they were working on. Students are allowed to take the computers home to work on assignments if they wish, but only for school use. They can also access their schoolwork from their Google account on any computer at home.
• Ayla, Makonnen, and Caitlin have been in charge of our Can Drive project and they are doing a great job! Groups were created to visit each lower school classroom to get them excited about donating. Cans collected will be weighed during an island competition next Thursday at UVI. Let's go GHCDS!!
• Ms. Bird continued her very informative lessons about the brain, the class has been engaged with the concepts and tasks
• Coach Jacob gave kudos to some of our class members for working so well together in designing a synchronized swim routine!

• Math
• Math test - students did quite well overall
• Review Order of Operations
• Intro to Algebra (ex: There are an unknown amount of items in a bag and you add 5 more of those items. How many items are in the bag?  x + 5)
• Equation vs expression

• English
• Adventure stories! Outlining, designing "grabber" openers, listening to mentor texts and discussing

• Science
• New Unit! Atoms, elements, and the periodic table
• We learned about the periodic table and investigated different elements
• Students researched an element and created an info cube

• Social Studies/Global Perspectives
• completed Neolithic newspapers and shared with the class
• Test review: peer study, Kahoot game, verbal pop quiz style, discussion of how to answer test questions based on what it's asking (ex: list, describe, explain)
• Final test on prehistory humans
• BEGAN Global Perspectives unit highlighting the skills of Research and Communication

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