Announcements -
- 5/25 - No School
- 6/2 - Lower School Concert
- 6/5 - No School faculty workshop
- 6/8 - **6th Grade Beach Day (tentative date)
- 6/10 - 1pm Lower School field day
- 6/11 - Last Day! (full day of school)
- Ask Your Child About -
- Morning Meeting, wellness/personal growth
- Pay It Forward Day and why it's really every day! Students learned that there are 88 countries official partnered with Pay It Forward! Each student received a card that they were encouraged to pass along to someone they did something kind for. That person in turn hopefully would continue the train of good deeds.
- The class told a collective story for National Storytelling Day :)
- Math
- Percentages (short unit, test next Thurs)- relationship of %/decimals/fractions, percentages larger that 100 and smaller than 1, some real-world application like finding out test grades (fraction to percent) and discounts on items, using calculators
- English
- Root -voc-, -voke-
- Information EBooks: using quotes in their books, transitional phrases to make sentences and ideas flow, spotting good sources (NO AI or Wiki)
- Mystery reading groups going well, great discussions so far about characters in the books as well as predictions. Groups meet every Mon, Wed, and Fri and that is when they decide what to read for the next session. Please encourage your child to be doing the assigned reading. If the pace feels like too much, let me know and I can work with the group. The goal is for them to be reading at a comfortable pace so they pick up on details in the text.
- Science
- Unit 6: Earth Physics - Sound waves, layers of the Earth, continental drift, diagrams and writing about science
- Social Studies/Global Perspectives
- China: review and test, China vases as final project
- Began final Global Perspectives unit - Why people migrate from their home country (skills focus is on research, reflection, and analysis)
- Students learned about and discussed what it means to reflect and why it is good for us. They wrote an initial reflection on their understanding and feelings about migration and people who migrate. At the end of the unit they will write a second reflection on the same question then analyze how their thoughts and opinions may have changed and why or why not.
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