Tuesday, December 17

Messages and Reminders:
Our LWW chapter 13-17 quiz is tomorrow. Many students still need to have previous math and LA quizzes signed and returned. Please send them back before the break. Tomorrow is red and green or Christmas sweater day (the December school spirit day). Thursday is fun lunch, the last day of school before winter break, the December pillars of care assembly at 12:30, and report card day. There is no school on Friday and winter break goes until January 5.

Morning recap:
This morning after music, we finished up yesterday's math problems together as a class. In language arts, we did our December writing sample. It was a bit different this month. Instead of a picture prompt, the guidelines were to write a bonus chapter for LWW. We talked about how it could be a prologue (something that happened before the story in the book), an extra chapter in the middle of the story, or something that happened after the story (another adventure or the story of what happened when the characters returned to our world). Instead of writing by hand this month, the plan was to type our stories on the laptops, but since the laptops are being updated this week and are super slow, many of us ended up writing by hand anyway. During gym, we played a Christmas version of capture the gold. When we went back up to class, our buddies met us there and we did some guided drawing of a winter snow globe.

Upcoming important dates:
Wednesday, December 18 - red and green or Christmas sweater day

Wednesday, December 18 - LWW chapter 13-17 quiz
Thursday, December 19 - fun lunch
Thursday, December 19 - pillars of care assembly - 12:30pm
Thursday, December 19 - last day of school - report cards sent home
Friday, December 20 - non-instruction day
December 21 - January 5 - winter break
Monday, January 6 - school resumes