Week of November 14th - November 18th

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 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 revise their writing and finish their good copy by the end of next week. 

We have also begun working on basketball this week! We have been practicing dribbling and have started passing as well. The students have been working well together and respecting our gym rules as it has become colder and we are outside less and less. 

Parent teacher conferences are this week! Please schedule a time to meet in PowerSchool.

Below is a link for you if you are interested in signing up for our Arts Commons trip in February. Please let me know if you have any questions. 

https://www.signupgenius.com/go/10C094EABAD2FA5FDC43-arts

Have a wonderful week! 

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