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November 9th, 2025
November 9th, 2025
Snack
Snack
Snack will be at 9:10 each morning. If your child wants a snack, they need to bring a nut free snack. Due to allergies, we are no longer allowed to provide snacks.
Library
Library
Library will be each week. Please remind students to keep their library books safe in their backpack!
Ms. Amy homeroom: Tuesdays
Mrs. Cottle homeroom: Mondays
Ms. Lee homeroom: Wednesdays
ELAR
ELAR
This week: We will begin Module 5: Art Everywhere, exploring this essential question- How far can your talents take you? Our focal text this week will be "The Beatles Were Fab (and They Were Funny.)" We will discuss text structure and figurative language, learn about modal auxiliaries, and begin writing expository essays.
Next week: We will review skills, strategies and texts from this nine weeks so far. This week will lead us into Thanksgiving break!
Math
Math
This Week: We will be working with ALL four operations in order to solve multistep word problems. We will use visuals and model to help us stay organized in our thinking. We will also be using a problem solving strategy called UPScheck. I will attach a sample in a link below.
Next Week: Next we will continue problem solving with operations and introduce input/output tables. This will take us into Thanksgiving Break! 😮
Science
Science
This Week : We began our unit on food webs and energy exchange in ecosystems. This first week was about producers (plants) and how they get energy (from sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide through photosynthesis). We wrote a CER about this process and did an experiment on what plants need to survive. We had one radish plant that got everything it needed, one that got no sunlight, one that got no water, and one that was in an airtight container.
Next Week : We will continue our unit on food webs and energy exchange in ecosystems. This week will be about consumers / decomposers and their important place in ecosystems. We will make a food web in different environments and be able to label all components.
(If you would like to follow along with our learning this chapter is pages 323-332 in McGraw-Hill)
Social Studies
Social Studies
This Week : We took our test on Exploration and Settlement on Tuesday (weeks 8-11 in Studies Weekly). We began our week 12 newspaper over the Texas Revolution, including American immigration to Texas (while a part of Mexico), the beginnings of revolution, the battle of the Alamo, Texas declares independence from Mexico, and we completed a timeline of these events to prove understanding.
Next Week : We will begin our week 13 newpaper all about important figures of the Texas revolution. These include William B Travis, James Bowie, Davy Crockett, Placido Benavides, Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Jose Francisco Ruiz, Juan N Seguin, Enrique Esparza, and Susanna Dickinson.
Contact Information
Contact Information
Ms. Amy (Science/Social Studies): julia.amy@gcisd.net
Mrs. Cottle (Math): jennifer.cottle@gcisd.net
Ms. Lee (ELAR): maisie.lee@gcisd.net
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