Last Week Before Christmas Break
Hi Families - We have finally made it to the last week before Christmas Break. Here is a few things you need to know about this final week. 1) This is our week for gathering (Dec. 16-21). Since Friday is a half day, our gathering will be on Thursday at 2:20 pm. We will be sharing about our study of Jamestown, our weather unit, and some students want to share poems they wrote. These three things will easily take up our 20 minutes of gathering! 2) As I already mentioned, Friday is a half day. I told students that Friday will be an optional pajama day. We might do a movie, play games, extend explorations time, and enjoy ourselves before the break. This final week will be about finishing projects before we go to our break: 1) In reading, we completed reading Blood on the River. Now we are almost through When You Reach Me . This book won the Newberry Award several years ago. I read this book because it has many details that must be paid attention to in order to understand the cl