Ask Your Child About...
- Community Building
- Happy Birthday to Kaden & Cecilia who celebrated over Thanksgiving Break!
- Morning Meeting
- Snowball Fight Greeting
- Identifying & Managing Stress
- Gingerbread Craft
- Friday Gathering
- Ms. Thatcher Sundae Fun Run Prize!
- Writing
- Unit 2: Persuasive Essays
- Practiced Editing Skills
- Fragments vs. Run-Ons
- Using commas with conjunctions
- Drafting Essay #2
- Using a checklist for proofreading
- Partner feedback
- Reading
- Unit 2: Extreme Weather
- Completed research paragraphs
- Designed poster plans
- Worked in groups to assemble and decorate posters
- Read Aloud/Word Study
- Completed the Book Front Desk, by Kelly Yang
- Completed List #4 & Quiz
- Making Sympathy Cards for Ms. Bird & Her Family
- Number Corner & Math
- Completing the November Calendar Pattern on Elapsed Time
- Continuing to Update our Collection and Converting Between Cups, Quarts, and Gallons
- Playing Roll and Compare - Working on creating either the largest or smallest number with a set of rolled numbers
- Comparing Numbers in Story Problems - using place value to compare numbers
- Playing Division Capture - Working on early division
- Estimating the Answer to Multi-Digit Multiplication Problems
- Sketching Using the Area Model to Find Partial Products and Final Products to 2-Digit by 2-Digit Multiplication Problems (ex. Below)
- Multiplying by 10, 100, and 1,000
- Building Ratio Tables for a Given Number with a Partner (ex. for 10 below)
- Multiplying Single Digits by Multiples of 10
- i.e. 9 x 20 = 9 x 2 x 10 = 18 x 2 = 36
- Science/Health & Wellness
- Started our New Unit: The Birth of Rocks, about Earth's Processes and Features
- Lesson 1: Volcanoes and Patterns of Earth's Features
- Ask Your Child About the "Ring of Fire"
- Completing Bio Poems (see photos of a few of them below)
Announcements
- Sunday, December 3rd- Splash & Dash
- SEE POSTER BELOW
- Monday, December 11th - LS Holiday Raffle Week
- Send your child in with some money to buy tickets to possibly win a prize!
- All the money raised will be donated to CCT's Afterschool Theatre Program
- Raffle names will be drawn on Monday, December 18th in the Pavilion at 9am
- Thursday, December 14th - GHCDS Spelling Bee
- Wednesday, December 20th - LS Winter Concert in Pavilion at 9am
- FAMILIES WELCOMED!
- Thursday, December 21st - EARLY DISMISSAL AT 12:30
- Winter Break Begins!
- School resumes on Monday, January 8th
Pictures This Week:
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