Announcements -
- 12/8 - Classroom spelling bee
- 12/11 - School spelling bee at 11:30
- 12/8-12/12 - Lower School raffle, tickets can be purchased by students each morning
- 12/18 - Lower School Winter Concert 8:45 am
- 12/21-1/6 - Winter Break
- 1/7 - School resumes
- 1/19 - No School
- 2/3-6 - 6th Grade Denis Sullivan field trip (afternoons)
- Ask Your Child About -
- Morning Meeting, wellness/personal growth
- SEL lesson about forming pathways in the brain (the more you do something the stronger the pathway). It's helpful for students to understand they may need to practice something over and over before it feels easier. They played a fun game like "telephone" but with a physical message! The more they did the signs, the easier it was to remember.
- Team building games
- Math
- Progress check for rounding and decimal place identification, exponents
- continued practice, tessellations
- English
- 6th grade authors continued to draft short stories with a twist
- Formal email writing practice - especially important when writing to teachers :)
- Reading chapter 3 from the Epic of Gilgamesh
- Latin root -flect, flex-
- Science
- Formation of the planets and gravitational relationships of the planets/sun
- recording data and graphing results
- Social Studies/Global Perspectives
- SS projects identifying the G.R.A.P.E.S. of Mesopotamia
PHOTOS:
No photos this time. We were busy, and they were in to making funny faces if I tried!
