Chace Street News

Dec. 5 Trimester 1 Grades in the student portal

Dec. 7 NO School-Parent/Teacher Conferences

Dec. 12 Holiday Fair (2G, KD, 5N, 4S, 3G)

Dec. 13 Holiday Fair (2J, KA, 5D, 4H, 3R)

Dec. 14 Holiday Fair (1V, 1B, 5C, 3F)

Dec. 15 Holiday Fair (Make ups)

Dec. 22 Last Day of School before December Break

Dec. 25 Merry Christmas

Dec 25-Jan 1 NO SCHOOL

Dec. 31 Happy New Year

Jan. 2 Welcome Back!

The Dolphin Diner has reopened!! We renamed it to the VIP Lounge. The students are chosen by their teacher and classmates. Sept./Oct. Perseverance, Nov/Dec.-Respectful, Jan./Feb.-Independent, March/Apr.-Inclusion, Diverse, May/June-Empathy

November 2023

Our list of letters, sounds, and high frequency words is growing! Students are using this knowledge during phonics to read phrases and sentences. They are labeling parts of their pictures using the letter sounds we have learned. We will continue to use our Narrative Writing Diamond to identify and sequence story events in order, as well as identify the characters and settings in narrative stories. During the month of November, we focused on the concepts of traditions and past and present in Social Studies. We are now moving ahead to our Circle of Seasons unit in Science. Number Corner continues to be a favorite daily routine. The November calendar grid had us exploring a color pattern, one more pattern, and direction pattern. Ask your kiddo about it!

In December we will be learning about Christmas traditions around the world. We will focus on initial and final blends in phonics and move on to subtraction strategies in math!

In December, 2GT is diving into some exciting lessons! Students will continue to explore maps, continents, and oceans, discovering the world around them. Our journey includes learning about holidays celebrated around the world.

Enjoy the pictures and I wish you all a joyous holiday season!

Mrs. Green

Mastering addition and subtraction math facts is very important in second grade. Our "Game On" workstation is a fun way to work with facts every day because we get to play! We have learned a variety of games that exercise addition and subtraction facts. Every day kids choose a game to play with a classmate. Our "Game On" workstation is active, engaging, and a class favorite. Once a month we play Math Basketball together. We move the desks, set up the hoop, and play. You need fast facts to take a shot! It is extra motivation to work hard to master more facts before the next basketball game.

The third grade is building thinking classrooms in math using vertical white boards to solve mathematical (and FUN!) thinking tasks. This problem solving approach is learner-centered and focuses on deep thinking through a task and promotes social interactions that students need. We are also learning more about multiplication as we develop skills that enable us to solve any multiplication equation. Finally we are preparing for student-led conferences in 3G and 3F, which means goal setting, deciding on evidence, and reflecting on our growth this trimester!

Grades 4 & 5 ELA & SS: Students recently worked on writing a 5-paragraph informational essay about a topic of their choice. Some of the topics included cats, sharks, pizza, birds, eating bugs, and more! We will soon change our focus to opinion writing. In reading, we have been focusing on fiction stories and learning about characters, plot, inferencing, figurative language, and other skills.

Fourth grade will begin learning about the regions of the U.S. in social studies, and will focus first on the northeast. In fifth grade, we recently finished playing a colony game. The winners were Connor & Lucas S., Aubree & Lacey, Christian & Ben D., and Devahn & Jonathan. Students are now learning about the American Revolution.

In fourth grade, we learned about cups, quarts, and gallons and elapsed time. During independent reading time, the children are reading or working on a book project of their choosing. We have also been learning about writing informational essays. The students have chosen a topic and will be writing an informational essay applying the skills we learned during our Empowering Writers lessons.

Students in fourth grade science wrapped up our energy unit by making waves to mimic sound waves.

Grade 5C is making holiday decorations with math problems they solved.

The 4th and 5th grade mathematicians have been busy this month planning their Thanksgiving dinners. Fifth graders planned their dinner from beginning to end, starting with who to invite and finished with how long it will take to cook all of the food. Fourth graders worked on being sure they had enough servings for each of their guests. In science, fifth graders have been exploring space. They used their shadows to understand how a sundial works, learned why see different stars in the nights sky at various times of the year and are currently investigating whether other planets may be habitable. Fourth graders have moved into the next unit and are beginning to explore sound waves and patterns. We are looking forward to the busy month ahead!

With flu season upon us, it is important to keep our children healthy. Children are two to three times more likely than adults to get sick with the flu, and on average, one in three children in the U.S. is affected by the virus each year. Usually, the flu is spread from person to person through coughing and sneezing. Occasionally, people get the flu from touching a germ-infested surface.

SIMPLE STEPS FOR KEEPING YOUR CHILD HEALTHY:

• According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the best way to prevent your child from getting the flu is to take him/her to get a flu vaccine.

• Talk to your child about practicing good health habits, such as:

• Washing hands frequently with soap and warm water for at least 20 seconds

• Covering mouth and nose when sneezing or coughing-preferably into the inside of the elbow or with a tissue and disposing of the tissue immediately into the trash

• Avoiding sharing drinks, water bottles, eating utensils

• Avoiding touching their eyes, nose, and mouth

You can prevent spreading illness to others by keeping your sick children home from school until they have been without fever for 24 hours without any fever-reducing medication. It is essential for your sick child to get rest and drink plenty of fluids.