12.8 through 12.19 & HAPPY WINTER BREAK!

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• Community Building
• Morning Meeting
• VI March 
• Salute, Pinky Touch or Bow Greeting
• Learning About Winter Holidays - Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, New Years (traditions)
• SEL Lesson w/ Ms. Bird on Assertive Communication
• GHCDS Spelling Bee! Congrats to David Vaughan (Avery's brother) on the victory and to Reagan and Ben on their excellent representation of the 5th grade class on the big stage!
• Winter Concert (1st Band Concert in the books!!)
• Cookie Exchange
• Homemade gift exchange
• Caroling

• Math
• Cambridge Stage 6 Unit 1 Part 2 - The Number System (Rounding - to the nearest whole, tenth, & hundredth)
• U1 Assessment
• Cambridge Stage 6 Unit 2 Part 1 - Sequences/Patterns/Rules

• Literacy (Read Aloud, Word Study, Reading, Writing)
• Completing our read aloud, Stamped (For Kids): Racism, Antiracism, and You, Adapted by Sonja Cherry-Paul (original authors: Jason Reynolds & Ibram X. Kendi)
• Class Spelling Bee! 
• Continuing Word Study List #3 - closed sort, rainbow writing, definitions, sentences
• Writing Class Dengue Article & Survey for GHCDS Faculty Members
• Researching/Planning, & Drafting Articles for Our Class Newspaper
• "Publishing" Our Class Newspaper & Deliverying via "Paper Routes"!

• Science/Social Studies
• CNN10 & Notes
• Starting Our Watery Planet Unit
• Hydrosphere & Water Distribution Activity (+ making a bar graph to represent our data)

• Homework
• ENJOY THE HOLIDAY BREAK!

- Announcements - 

• Spelling Bee - Congrats to the 5th grade contestants, Reagan & Ben, who both performed so well in the GHCDS Bee!
• Holiday Raffle - LS raised $778.50 for the St. Croix Animal Welfare Center! AMAZING!
• Winter Break 12/20- 1/6 (note: school resumes 1/7)

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