I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving break celebrating and relaxing with friends and family! I’m looking forward to hearing all about the it on Monday!
Fall Makeup Picture Day
Don’t forget that makeup picture day has been rescheduled for December 1st due to delays in printing and delivery of our Fall pictures. This link will allow families to sign up to receive updates via email regarding your child’s school portraits. These updates include promotions, additional deals and the ability to order more pictures at a later time.
EVERY Wednesday is House spirit day. Show your house colors and connect with other house members throughout the school!
Computer Science Week
December 6th – 10th is computer science week. Students will be learning about how it relates to different subjects, industries, career paths, and everyday life! Join in the fun by participating in our spirit days!
12/6 – Monday: Innovation Day – wear something neon for bright ideas!
12/7 – Tuesday: Bugs you encounter – wear something buggy
12/8 – Wednesday: Following directions to reach a destination – wear a travel shirt
12/9 – Thursday: Binary Code Day – Wear red & white
12/10 – Friday: Cozy Coding – wear your cozy PJs
Weekend: Unplugged Coding – create an algorithm
12/1 Makeup Picture Day (this is a change)
12/2 IB Writing prompt for 5th grade students who applied
12/6 PTA Spirit Night at Chick-fil-A Tuckernuck Plaza
12/6 – 12/10 Computer Science Week/Spirit Week
12/10 House Steam Challenge, Half day dismissal beginning at 11:00
Math: This week in math we will begin learning all about converting decimals to fractions and fractions to decimals. Keep practicing those multiplication and division facts as mastery of these facts is so beneficial to the unit on fractions!
Reading: Making inferences and drawing conclusions in both fiction and nonfiction text will continue to be our focus this week. Our vocabulary this week will be all about animals Vocab. List 9. Many of these words will be familiar to students from their study of science.
Science: In science this week wwe will be learning all about sound! Creating our instruments gave us great background knowledge on this topic and was the perfect segway into this unit!
Social Studies: We will learn about the 5 regions that make up the United States this week (Southeast, Northeast, Midwest, Southwest and West). We will then begin our focus on the Southeast Region learning about the 12 states that make up this region and the capitals of each state.