12.1.23

 Ask Your Child About...

• Community Building 
• Morning Meeting
• Gratitude Challenge Shares - Place @ School, Place in Classroom, Animal, and Sense You are Thankful For
• Videos/Shares About Believing in Yourself, Responsible Decision Making, Rainbow Breathing, Friendship, & Never Giving Up
• Friday Gathering
• Ms. Thatcher Sundae Fun Run Prize!

• Writing
• Unit 2: Journalism
• Publishing Party!
• Delivered Newspapers Around Campus 
• Emailed to all parents on Wednesday
• Cards for Mrs. Bird & her family 

• Reading
• Unit 2: Informational
• Summary Structure 
• Comprehension Assessment
• Read Aloud - Finished Jumbies by Tracey Baptiste
• Trinidad & Tobago Colonial History 

• Word Study 
• Started Spelling List #5

• Number Corner & Math 
• Completing November's Calendar Pattern on Translating Triangles & November's Collection of Meters
• Ask your child how to convert 10 meters into Kilometers, Decameters, Decimeters, and Centimeters
• Order of Operations "Taylor Swift Song"
• Watch/Listen Here!
• Playing Expression Bingo
• Working With Fractions Checkpoint
• Continuing to Practice/Review Strategies to Add & Subtract Fractions (see below & ask your child about the giant 1 strategy), including finding common denominators 
  
  
  

• Science/Health & Wellness
• Playing Bloom Busters to Try and Save their Town From Algae Blooms!
• Winter Door Decorating - 6 Pointed Snowflakes & Penguins

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 

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