November 30 - December 3

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 Upcoming December Dates 

  • Deck the Windows: Classes will be decorating the outside windows beginning next week. Check out all the windows!
  • Music in the Hall: The last week before break, we will start the day with some music. Students can send in requests through the link in Google Classroom.
  • Festive Wear Week: December 14-17 students are invited to wear festive clothes or hats at school.
  • Winter Celebration: December 16th we will be sharing our Winter Celebration school wide.
Art

"We got a picture to match our poem and used cross hatching." Levi
"We did a rough copy in our visual journals and for our good copy we used water colour paper. We made a horizon line and made it into hills and kept building on to it." Mila




Flags

"We did rough copy flags and then we did our good copy flags. We did the good copy flags with fabric markers." Jake
 "We drew pictures that represented us." Tally
"We put our initials or the first letter of our name on our flags. And put 2 or 3 things that represented us." Makena



Math

"We did a check in for our pictographs. We also were working on data." Evelyn
"We had to do different pictographs and figure out what they meant. Each on had this little figure or picture and it represented how much it represents." Isla

Gym

"We started our December Dance. We got into groups and had to pick one dance out of five dances. They were Kidz Bop videos." Charlie
"We went to the playground outside for DPA this week." Dorela
"After we are done doing our dances we are going to show everyone in the class what we are doing." Jacob




Poetry

"We have been working on Haiku poetry and Acrostic poems. We chose one of our poems to edit and make the words more juicy or make the words more better. After we did that we had to write about it for our art." Owen





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