12.1.23

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• 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: