12.8.23

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• Community Building 
• Morning Meeting
• Holiday Animated Short Films 
• How to achieve goals
• Friday Gathering
• 6th Grade Presentation on Different Ways New Year's is Celebrated

• Writing
• Brainstorming for Newspaper #2
• Holiday Writing 
• Where should Santa vacation persuasive essay 
• Mad Libs - nouns, adjectives, and verbs 

• Reading
• Informational Post Assessment for Comprehension 
• Mini Holiday Unit 
• Comparing & Contrasting Different Versions of the Gingerbread Man Stories 
• Read Aloud
• Started a new book: Flying Lesson & Other Stories Edited by Ellen Oh

• Word Study 
• Spelling List #5 Assessment 

• Number Corner & Math 
• New December Calendar Pattern - Classifying Quadrilaterals
• New December Collection - Our Foot Lengths vs. Arm Spans
• Review Bingo
• Unit 2 Assessment on Fraction Addition and Subtraction & Multiplying a Fraction by a Whole Number
• Beginning Unit 3 on Place Value & Decimals
• Adding and Subtracting Decimals 
• Give & Take Strategy (example below)
  
  
  
• Beat Ms. Hill Fractions Game
• Fraction & Decimal Equivalencies

• Science
• Finishing Up our Web of Life Unit
• Food Webs & The Flow of Energy
• Creating a Dinosaur Food Web

Announcements

• Classroom Donations: We are in need of more tissues and plastic utensils!
• Sunday, December 10th- CCT Children's Show at 4pm (Flyer Below)

• Monday, December 11th - LS Holiday Raffle Week (Letter attached to email)
• 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 

PHOTOS

School pictures have been emailed!