Happy December!

Happy December!  I hope you all have a great Holiday season!

Countdown to Christmas Dress Up Days

Parents, this year Creekside teachers and staff are doing some fun dress up days in the countdown to Christmas break! We are inviting students to participate if they wish. This of course is completely optional!

	Tuesday - 1st	Wednesday- 2nd	Thursday - 3rd	Friday -4th
	Christmas Sock Day  Wear your best Christmas socks!	Festive  Scarf  Day	Red  And  Green Day	Favorite Christmas  Character/  Movie Day
Monday- 7th	Tuesday - 8th	Wednesday -9th	Thursday- 10th	Friday- 11th
Ugly  Sweater Day	Candy  Cane  Day	Christmas  BLING  Wear your classic Christmas Jewelry.	Christmas  Plaid Day	Gaudy Christmas Face Mask Day
Monday - 14th	Tuesday- 15th	Wednesday - 16th	Thursday - 17th	Friday - 18th
Dress alike  Day  Find someone or people to dress alike in your Christmas apparel.	Frosty Snowman  Attire	Favorite  Christmas  Shirt	Grinch  Day	Polar Express Day -  Wear your Best (appropriate) Christmas PJs or Polar Express  Attire

We are in the last push until Christmas and the end of the semester!  I am going to keep things pretty normal this week schedule wise.  The next two weeks will be a little different, with special Christmas activities, NWEA testing 2 days, and DIBELS testing.  For that reason, we will finish our Wonders reading unit this week, NOT do wonders next week, and then we WILL do wonders the last week before break.  

Some important dates to note:

12/4--Spelling test

12/7--DIBELS testing
12/8--NWEA testing
12/9--NWEA testing
12/9--Math chapter 4 review packet coming home
12/16--Math chapter 4 test

12/17--Holiday party in class (more details TBA)

12/18--PJ day/movie day!
12/18--spelling test

Writing

Here is what we are working on in Writing this week:

• editing, proofreading

• writing a persuasive letter

• Santa projects

High Ability

Here is what we are working on in our high ability unit this week:

• wordless books

• adding titles to pictures

• change charts

• reading-- Charlotte's Web

Math

Here is what we are working on in math this week:

• measuring distance
• polygons
• measuring with a ruler
• perimeter

Wonders Reading

Here is what we are working on this week in reading:

• essential question--How can people help out their communities?
• genre--narrative nonfiction
• phonics--long i sound
• Grammar--present tense verbs
• vocabulary---synonyms
• writing--personal narrative
• writing--organization-sequence
• writing-draft focusing on events
• comprehension--ask and answer questions
• comprehension--author's purpose
• text features--photos and captions

Holidays Around the World

For 15 days, we will "travel" to a different country, and learn how children in that country celebrate Christmas.  We will do a power point, story, writing journal, and craft for each day/country.  Students will bring home all their research before Christmas break.  Here are the countries for this week:

• France
• Italy
• Mexico
• Greenland
• Germany

Upcoming Dates

Here are some dates to add to your calendar:

• 12/7--DIBELS middle of year testing
• 12/8-12/10--NWEA middle of year testing
• 12/18--end of 9 weeks
• 12/18--Last day of school for first semester!
• 12/19-1/3/21--WINTER BREAK--no school
• 1/4/21--1st day of school

Have a great week!