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General News The final part of their Theme project is due this Monday, March 3rd. We will start presenting our speeches and visual art creations. Get ready for a Gamma Soul Food Potluck on Wednesday, March 5th. Details can be found on this flier and we’ll offer this sign-up sheet so others can get a feel for your offering. We’d love to have your participation, but know that bringing a dish is optional. If you can bring one, great! (Don’t forget an ingredient card!) Don’t forget about these awesome events coming up at the Haskell house! Check out this document […]

General News Sadly, the weather wasn’t on our side this week for Shipe Park day but we had a lovely friendship day anyway! There were crafts, Valentine cards, and treats! Remember there is no school this coming Monday for Presidents Day/Family Field Day! ELA Update This week in Gammaland ELA we had our usual Monday discussion about last week’s reading. We are quickly approaching the climax of the book! On Tuesday and Thursday we spent a little more time on figurative language and looked at more quotes from the text to really solidify our knowledge of what different literary devices

General News ELA Update This week in ELA we started to spend more time diving into our novel. On Monday we went over P&P and got into small groups for discussion about our reading response questions. On Tuesday and Wednesday we explored figurative language and vocabulary from the novel. We learned about how to make an inference about the meaning of an unfamiliar vocabulary word through the equation of schema + context = inference. We did a little storytelling about times we were in a situation similar to characters in the book. We talked about our worst injury ever, a

General News ELA Update This week was all about finishing up our fiction stories and the laborious task of editing. Ms. Ansley played the role of publisher and editor! As each student finished their writing she went through and highlighted areas to be reviewed for CUPS (capitalization, understanding, punctuation, and spelling). Once that was all done they had the super fun task of making cover art, back covers, and about the author pages in Canva. These were then sent off to the publisher (Ms. Ansley) for lamination and binding. If your kiddo hasn’t quite finished typing up their story you

General News All Subject Update In the spirit of the funky week, we’re keeping this section consolidated as all classes took a slight curve in the road to accommodate the holiday, snow day and Flu-Fest 2025. With half the class out (teachers included!) the name of the game was flexibility. For kiddos in class, we accomplished a long division scavenger hunt to practice those pesky long division steps. In theme, we explored the Underground Railroad to follow-up on last week’s exploration of the abolitionist movement. We did a mapping activity on Wednesday and followed it with a “meaningful quote” technology