Friday, December 5, 2025

Dec. 1st-5th (1st week of Trimester 2)!

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Note: Holiday Raffle & Gift Exchange Letters Are Copied Onto the Bottom of this Post!

  • Community Building
    • Morning Meeting
      • VI March 
      • ET Greeting
      • Riddles
      • Shares about break, least favorite school rules, rule they would make if head of school, & holiday raffle prize they are most excited for
      • Cleaning, Organizing, & Changing Desks
      • Fakhri's Birthday Celebration
  • Math
    • Beginning Cambridge Stage 6 Unit 1 - The Number System (Place Value - Standard vs. Expanded vs. Word Form, Multiplying and dividing a number by 10, 100, & 1,000, & Writing Fractions (tenths, hundreds, & thousandths) as decimals and vise versa
      • Place Value Bingo activities
      • Place Value Matching activity
      • True or False Activity
      • Notes
  • Literacy (Read Aloud, Word Study, Reading, Writing)
    • Starting our new read aloud, Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You, Adapted by Sonja Cherry-Paul (original authors: Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi)
    • Starting Word Study List #3 - cut words out and open sort
    • Presenting Book Club Newspapers
    • Reading Articles & Picking Out the 5 Ws
  • Science/Social Studies
    • CNN10 & Notes
    • Completing our first GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES CHALLENGE on communication over time (looking at survey & finding pictures for communication time periods, matting them, creating the timeline) - completing KWL chart from the beginning of the challenge will wrap up the challenge next week!
    • Starting Our Watery Planet Unit - Hydrosphere & Water Distribution

      Exploration

  • Homework
    • Read 30+ min M-Th (weekend optional) - BOOK CLUB READING IF NEEDED
    • Math HW Assignment
    • Bring in Holiday Decorations
    • Start Working on Homemade Gift Exchange
- Announcements - 
  • Class Items We Still Need (optional donations)
    • Madras Fabric for an Upcoming Social Studies Project (need before we start making the wire jumbies we need/want to start soon!)
  • Spelling Bee - Class Bee is THIS MONDAY, Dec. 8th & School Bee (4th-8th Grades is THURSDAY Dec. 11th

  • Holidays
    • Raffle - Tickets Sale Next Week 12/8-12 (M-F) & Drawing on Tuesday 12/16
    • LS Concert - 12/18
    • 5th Grade Cookie Exchange For Students - 12/18
    • 5th Grade Homemade Gift Exchange & Caroling Around Campus - 12/19
    • Winter Break 12/20- 1/6 (notes: full day of school on 12/19 & school resumes 1/7)

- Photos (from book club newspaper presentations!) - 








Holiday Raffle Letter: 


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Dec. 1st-5th (1st week of Trimester 2)!

   -  Ask Your Child About -  Note: Holiday Raffle & Gift Exchange Letters Are Copied Onto the Bottom of this Post! Community Building M...