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March 10, 2025

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Digital Planners

If your student starts their day with Ms. Boelter: Boelter Young Digital Planner
If your student starts their day with Mr. Young: Young Boelter Digital Planner

Curriculum

Tuesday, March 12 – Geometry Unit Test

  • Students will complete their Geometry Unit Test, covering concepts including classifying triangles and quadrilaterals by their sides and angles.
  • After the test, we will begin our new unit: Volume of a Rectangular Prism.

Thursday, March 14 – Water Cycle Experiment Application Questions Due

  • Students conducted an experiment last Thursday in which they created a mini water cycle including pollution and clouds, and will submit their application questions by Thursday.
  • This assignment will be graded for accuracy and understanding (science grade).

Thursday – Kindness Parent Night

  • Last week, students took home a letter from Mr. S and Mrs. Teunis with important information to support their success for the rest of the school year and help them prepare for 6th grade. This information will also be discussed at a Parent Night next Thursday, March 13th, at 3:15 PM. If you RSVP’d, we’ll see you there!

Ongoing – Earth’s Spheres Project

  • Students are working on their Earth’s Spheres Project, where they explore interactions between the geosphere, hydrosphere, atmosphere, and biosphere.
  • The final project is due before students leave for spring break (3/14). This will count as a science project grade.

Special Events This Friday, March 15

🎉 Career Day

  • We are excited to welcome guest speakers from a variety of professions!
  • Students will engage in Q&A sessions and hands-on activities to learn about different careers.

🥧 Pi Day Celebration

  • We will be celebrating Pi Day (3.14) on Friday with fun math activities!
  • If your child would like to participate in the optional Pi Recitation Challenge or donate a pie for our celebration, please refer to my previous Class Dojo messages for details.

Thank you for your ongoing support! If you have any questions, feel free to reach out.

November 4, 2024

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If your student starts their day with Ms. Boelter: Boelter Young Digital Planner
If your student starts their day with Mr. Young: Young Boelter Digital Planner

Important Upcoming Dates

  • House Challenge Food Drive: November 4-15
  • Staff Development Day: November 5 (No School)
  • Veterans Day: November 11 (No School)
  • First Game Club/We the Meeple Meeting, November 12 – Sign Up Here
  • First Math League Meeting After School, November 16 – Signup Here

Curriculum

Last week, we started a new unit on multiplying decimals. The overarching concept for this unit is that multiplying a number by a decimal less than one results in a smaller value, while multiplying a number by a decimal greater than one yields a larger value. We’ve multiplied a whole number by a decimal and will multiply a decimal by a whole number on Tuesday. We will close out the week with a variety of strategies to multiply decimals by decimals. By the end of this week, students should be able to use a strategy that works for them when multiplying decimals. Below is a video that walks through the area model step by step, which helps students understand what is happening to that decimal numbers as we multiply them.

In our SEL lesson this week, we discussed communication and how to make a sincere apology. We reflected that we shouldn’t apologize until we are ready and we mean those words. We also discussed why apologizing can seem so hard, because we have to self reflect and accept ownership of that mistake.

Thank you for sending in such wonderful and thoughtful students. We do have so much fun each and every day. 🙂