03/20/26

              Announcements - 

Happy Eid Mubarak! The Lower School will be celebrating the breaking of the fast with our Muslim friends this Thursday at lunchtime. If you are able to donate $5 to the lunch it is appreciated, as it will help cover the costs of all items needed. Thank you for your support :)

• 4/2  - No School (Conferences: I will reach out to some of you for conferences, but feel free to go ahead and contact me about scheduling one if you'd like)
• 4/3 and 4/6  -  No School, Easter weekend
• 5/25 - No School

- Ask Your Child About - 

• Morning Meeting, wellness/personal growth
• READING BUDDIES! 
• Special project: to honor Women's History month and Virgin Island's history month the class researched and reported on 10 amazing women in V.I. History. The collection is now displayed along with Ms. Belardo's beautiful art. Check out the board at the end of our building, facing the road. See if you can you recognize these women of impact.
• SEL with Ms. Bird - continuing the Middle School Prep unit. They are reviewing the interviews and putting together a quick presentation to show each other so everyone can have the information shared by teachers and Middle Schoolers.

• Math
• Began unit on Symmetry: lines of symmetry, order of rotational symmetry, graphing symmetry (see photos)
• MashUp math
• St. Patrick's day fraction review game

• English
• Root word: pel, puls
• Completed two final poems and presented their favorite. They will now be made into a 6th Grade Class Poetry Book!
• Went over the outline for designing Claim Essays. Students then chose a character from The Rock and decided on their 3 main characteristic claims about the character. Now they will begin choosing their text evidence to support each claim.

• Science
• Began our next unit, learning about the characteristics of living things and identifying species. They completed early work with using keys to identify species.

• Social Studies/Global Perspectives
• We began our journey into Ancient India! Students learned about the diverse geography and identified how it affected the people who lived there (and now). They read about the first cities and the incredible achievements they had, like plumbing!

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