Week of November 21st

Thank you to all who donated to our Fresh Harvest Food Drive! Fresh Harvest Food Bank is so appreciative of our school working with them this year to help our families in need in Highlands Ranch!

21st Cent. Class: None this week

Specials: Music

Misc:

HAPPY THANKSGIVING WEEK!!!! We will not have school Wednesday - Friday. Have a great, relaxing, and quick break!

*Class Party will be on Monday - We will be having ice cream and watching Star Wars: A New Hope!

*Design Thinking Challenge: Special Olympics

Purpose: Specifically foster students' developing sense of empathy, and overall to learn about design thinking. Students will learn to immerse themselves in learning from experts.

- The students interviewed two local Special Olympians (as pictured below) to continue empathizing to their needs and know what their struggles are and how they overcame them

- They then met with the parents of those two Special Olympians so they can continue their questions

- After our interviewing is complete, we will synthesize information to develop a point of view statement and generate potential ideas

*Research & Reasoning: The students have been finalizing their ideas for their genius hour projects - now they will start researching on the topic they've chosen

- We will go over various ways to research and the reasoning behind the methods this week

- Some students were wanting to know how to annotate their research - last week we went over a new extension for chromebooks called "Scrible"

Ms. Morgan's Math:

*No Math's Mates this week!

Chapter 6: Multiply and Divide Decimals

*Estimating Products of Whole Numbers and Decimals - Monday

*Multiply Decimals by Whole Numbers - Tuesday

Reading:

Unit 6 Vocabulary Test will be on November 30th

*Practice activities are in their Flocabulary site

*Hands-on Vocabulary Games are within the classroom for your child's use if they'd like as well to support them with their studying habits

Novel Studies

*All Novels should be completely read - Project information is below. The students had the last two weeks to work on their projects in class.

- Student summative projects for their chosen novel (that must include their novel's comprehension skill) will be due on November 22nd!

Writing:

*DLI Week 9 practice (Comma Review & Appositives) will be due on Tuesday - December 6th

- DLI Quick Write 9 will be due Wednesday, December 7th.

BOY Writing Anchors

*Now that we've gone over multiple writing techniques, we will be pulling out the students Beginning of the Year Writing Anchors and continue editing and revising those papers this week

- Most students are done editing and revising so now their focus will be working on adding their personal writing goal into their final draft

- Once students have revised and edited their writing they will then meet with 3 writing buddies to edit and revise each other's work

Science:

*Students will continue their Earth Systems Unit with Mr. Orlowski this week

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