10/3/25

   Announcements - 

* MONDAY (10/6) we will celebrate their Fun Run rewards of Movie and Pajama Day!

The students showed interest in Jumanji: The next level and Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse. We will watch one of these tomorrow morning. Please let me know if you are not comfortable with your child seeing either of these movies.

* Math test on Tuesday (positive and negative integers, square and cubed roots, lowest common multiple and greatest common factor)

* Social Studies quiz on Thursday (Early humans, first farming)

• Now - 10/15 - Can Food Drive for World Food Day (6th Grade is hosting!)
• 10/10  No School - Teacher In-service day
• 10/13  No School - VI PR Friendship Day
• 10/24  Parent-Teacher Conferences
• 10/31  Halloween Ghost Walk (costume parade) and Boo Bash/Trunk-or-treat
• Just to let you know, I will be out of school 10/16-20.

 - Ask Your Child About - 

• Morning Meeting, wellness/personal growth
• Morning Meeting topics: Fun Run support videos, World Food Day Can food drive, classroom "jobs" (they are really taking responsibility of these new roles, we will switch out every 2 weeks or so)
• FUN RUN!!  Thank you for ALL of your support :)

• Math
• Square and cube roots, integers, lots of review, and taking a deeper look at using these skills to solve more intricate equations
• Made flash cards to help them review the rules for integers
• Mash Up Math brain challenge

• English
• Latin root words: -tract- (attract, extract, contract, retracting)
• Reading groups - Identifying setting, what effect does the setting have on the character(s) and their behaviors and actions
• Elements of adventure stories, identifying verbs in a passage and the effect they can have
• Outlining and starting their own adventure stories!

• Science
• Lab! - changes in states of matter, graphing results of water temperature readings as it comes to a boil
• Identifying particle models as gas, liquid, or solid
• Water cycle

• Social Studies/Global Perspectives
• working on Neolithic time period newspapers (and partnership practice!)

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS:

The class earned a lot of rewards for their Fun Run participation. We will have movie/pajama day on Monday, then fit in the other rewards throughout the week (including game time, recess period, "yes" period, and twin day). Their special lunch will be at a later date (probably pizza on a Friday).

GHCDS Can Food Drive: our 6th Grade is very proud to host the World Food Day can donation drive for our school. Please start to send in canned goods to help support hungry people in our community. Thank you!

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