Ms. Baker 5/6

 Hello families, It was so nice to see so many of you over the last two days.  This week students were tasked with finishing up their fractured fairy tale rough copies so that they can revise and hand in their good copies by Wednesday. The stories are so interesting and their ideas have really shown off their creativity.  We have started our Sky Science and jumped into objects that emit and reflect light. Students have started their new concept maps for the unit and are encouraged to practice their jot notes and ability to create connections between topics.  In Social Studies we have continued discussing Ancient Athens and the idea of a fair democracy. Students were tasked in analyzing ideas from Pericles and Socrates and comparing the ideas of the importance of contributing to a democracy. They learned about three major pieces of Ancient Athens democracy, The Court, The Assembly and The Council of 500. Ask them what each of these are and how they contributed to the idea of democracy i

 Hello families, This week the students started a new unit in Social Studies and Science! We have started exploring Ancient Athens and Sky Science. Students have been learning about the different roles that people have in Ancient Athens based on their social ranking and the students were assigned a random person to describe the "day in the life" on Friday. The students did a great job getting into character and describing the different jobs, hobbies, and rights they would have as that person.  In Grade 6 Math students have been practicing multiplication and division with decimals. Grade 5's have been learning the Lattice Method for multi-digit multiplication. On Friday we took the opportunity to have all 5/6 communities come together for some Math problem solving together which was amazing to see how they worked with new people and worked together on some tricky problems.  We will be starting our rough copies of our fractured fairy tales this week and be moving on to revi