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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

General News ELA Update This week in ELA we continued to toggle between typing up our fiction stories and discussing our novel study of Freewater. We sandwiched our publishing in the middle of the week with Freewater discussion on Monday and Thursday. On Monday we went over our homework and discussed many of the twists and turns of the novel so far. Those first chapters are action packed and introduce many new characters quickly! On Thursday we were able to slow down and make connections between the characters by breaking apart the two major worlds of the book: Freewater and

General News We had a wonderful first week back from break! The Gamma class was hardworking, thoughtful, kind, and enthusiastic – as always! ELA Update This week we began by introducing our new novel study. We are reading Freewater by Amina Luqman-Dawson. This story is set pre-civil war, during the Antebellum era. It is a story of friendship and community. We started the week off by exploring the setting of the novel by taking a look at the Great Dismal Swamp. This massive, forested wetland once covered millions of acres in Southwest Virginia and Northeastern North Carolina. We read an

General News We’ll be having our bi-annual movie and PJ day next week on Wednesday, December 18th! This is a Gamma tradition to relax and celebrate all our hard work preparing for POP! It’s hard to believe it’s already the last week before winter break! ELA Update We had a fun week with more fiction writing! Early in the week we talked about descriptive language and the key role it plays in helping the reader engage with the story. We also talked about how authors create hooks for the reader by using different styles of leads. A few techniques authors