Announcements

12/10

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.