12.15.23

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• Community Building 
• Morning Meeting
• Holiday & winter themed jokes/riddles
• SEL Videos/Discussions about increasing good vibes and decreasing negative vibes, what makes you strong/your strengths, giving & receiving gifts, and heroes
• Spelling Bee Warm Up! 
• GHCDS Spelling Bee 
• Congratulations to Jasem for winning 1st place, Zaid for 2nd place, and Toby for 3rd place! Well done to all the Spelling Bee contestants! 

• Writing
• Script Writing 
• Fractured Gingerbread Tales
• Structure of a script 
• Role of a Narrator 

• Reading
• Readers Theatre 
• Fluency Practice 
• Holiday skits 
• Voting on Theatre Club Script to prepare for next week's field trip

• Word Study 
• Started List #6

• Number Corner & Math 
• Continuing to Categorize Quadrilaterals - Trapezoids vs Parallelograms vs Kites
• Quadrilaterals Song
• Creating a "zoomed in" graph of our foot lengths vs. heights
• Creating a line plot with data about different worm's lengths
• Reviewing Using a Ratio Table for Multiplication
• Decimals
• Practicing the Give & Take Strategy to Add Decimals
• Multiplying and Dividing Decimals by 10 and 100
• Great Wall of Base Ten - Transferring it to Decimals
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• Modeling, Reading, & Comparing Decimals

  
  

• Science
• Starting New Unit: Water Cycle & EArth's SYstems
• Hydrosphere and Water Distribution Exploration & Activity
• Visually represented how much more salt water there is on Earth than fresh/frozen fresh water
• Groundwater as a Natural Resource Exploration & Activity
• Playing Wanted: A Well Game

Announcements:

• Classroom Donations - We are in need of more tissues and plastic utensils!

• Monday, December 18th - LS Holiday Raffle WINNERS  Announced 
• Pavilion at 9am 

• Monday, December 18th - 5TH GRADE FIELD TRIP TO CCT 
• Permisson slips due today 12/15
• Bus leaves campus after lunch and and returns by 3:15 for Closing Circle 

• Wednesday, December 20th - LS Winter Concert in Pavilion at 9am 
• FAMILIES WELCOMED!
• Message from Ms. Thompson Below

• Thursday, December 21st - EARLY DISMISSAL AT 12:30
• Winter Break Begins!
• School resumes on Monday, January 8th 

• STAR Assessments - You will receive your child's results by Winter Break!

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