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Next week is our Christmas Concert on Wednesday, December 16th. Because of
the concert, our Health and Gym will be switched. The students will have
Health on Wednesday, December 16 and gym on Thursday December 17th. Please
make sure your child brings the appropriate clothes for the gym day.
The fourth graders won a pizza party from the Greece Fire Department! We
will be having our pizza party on Tuesday, December 15th during our regular
lunch time! Thanks Fireman Pete!
In Social Studies, we are continuing to study explorers. This week we will
begin a book called Pedro's Journal. It's about a young ship's boy on
Christopher Columbus's ship. While we are reading this, we will begin to
pretend we are on an explorer's ship coming to the area of NYS. The students
will be writing their accounts in the first person and we'll be talking about
point of view. The students will need to design a cover for their journal at
home. The explorer journal writing will be done in school.
Another point of view activity we will be doing is we are going to retell the
Nativity Story from a different point of view. Students will either pretend
to be Mary, Joseph, or the donkey Mary rode on to Bethlehem. We will be
watching the DVD Silent Night, The Story of the First Christmas which is the
Nativity Story told from the point of view of the donkey. After watching the
video, the students will begin to write their own retellings.
We will be wrapping up the math, with a test on December 18th.