Student Highlights 12/4/2023 – 12/8/2023
Language Arts- Forests of the Congolese, non-count plural noun- Math- using a number line to solve travel stories with landmark number 100
- Science- using scales to measure the amount of water a sponge can hold
- PE- played Ultimate Ball based on ultimate frisbee
- Spanish- making poinsettias for the Virgin Mary
- Art- drawings of lolli-popolis cities with a lot of curves
- Chapel- St. Nicholas Story and gifts in our shoes
- Music- singing for the Christmas Concert, solo tryouts for Fum, Fum, Fum
In our Community time this week, we finished making angels that we then delivered to the lower school students in TK-4th grade. We also had some fun decorating our own little trees to keep at our desks (and ultimately take home!) It’s beginning to look (and feel) a lot like Christmas!
Students have been practicing travel story problems by showing solutions on a number line, which demonstrates their conceptual understanding and helps students build their mastery of place value. They are working toward fluently adding and subtracting, understanding different types of addition and subtraction stories. In the final investigation, students will compare lengths and heights, and compare quantities. Later in the week, is our unit math test.
What’s the best way to get things done? This is the big questions third graders will explore in unit 4 Language Arts. To answer it, students are reading, writing, and talking about how working together can make things better. The main reading selection next week is Mama Panya’s Pancakes. This realistic fiction story tells about something that could really happen in a village in Kenya. Students will learn to analyze characters by what they say and do in a story. Theme is determined by focusing attention on the most important details of setting, characters and plot events. Grammar lesson focus on verbs in the present tense and subject verb agreement.
Third graders’ holiday celebration, December 19th, includes a holiday sock exchange with both classes. The spending limit is $5.00 and we encourage you to find fun holiday themed socks. All December holidays are welcome. Please, wrap them and do not include any to/from tags. The socks may come in anytime, now through December 18th.
As a reminder for our field trip on Friday, December 15th to the Tucson Presidio, there are a few details:
Wear red and khaki and outerwear appropriate for a chilly morning. We are outside the entire field trip and the tall downtown buildings shade the Presidio.- Bring a lunch in a ‘brown bag’ or Ziplock bag, including a drink. Lunches are stored in a cooler.
- Departure is 8:45 am and our return to school is at approximately 1:30pm, just in time for the Holiday Program.
- Food at various stations include: wheat flour in tortillas, hard tack, and baked bread. Butter is served with the bread.
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Reminders
- Mon 12/14 Christmas Giving Drive Begins
- Thu 12/14 Upper School Band Holiday Performance, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
- Fri 12/15 Field Trip to Tucson Presidio Museum, official school uniform required
- Fri 12/15 Lower School Holiday Performance, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
- Fri 12/15 Upper School Choir Holiday Performance, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
- Tuesday 12/19 Relaxed Dress (Awarded for food drive goal)
- Wed 12/20 Las Posadas Chapel, 10:00 – 11:15am
- Wed 12/20- Half Day (no aftercare)
- Thu 12/21–Wed 1/3 Christmas Break
- Thu 1/4 Classes Resume
Spelling List Lesson 15 Words with spl, spr, str:
- splash
- strip
- strong
- spray
- stream
- spring
- split
- sprout
- spread
- strange