Ask Your Child About:
- Health & Wellness
- Ms. Bird's lesson on diversity
- Morning Meeting & Closing Circle
- Types of stress
- Stressors
- Coping skills/strategies
- Breathing & focus (bell) exercises
- Math
- Number Corner
- December calendar pattern (area, perimeter, symmetry, & perpendicular sides)
- Mystery grid game
- Multiplication strategies from Nov. problem strings (see chart below in photos)
- Multiplying by Tens & More
- Making their ratio table with a partner
- Using strategies to figure out what number the table is for when you can only see part of the ratio table
- Literacy
- Reading - Informational Texts
- Using strategies to figure out unknown words
- Creating a Word Bank or Glossary in their notebook while reading
- Sharing what they learned from their independent informational text with their PB&J reading partner
- Writing - Persuasive Essays
- What makes a strong thesis statement
- Creating 3 reasons to support their thesis statement
- Writing 2 examples to support each reason
- Working with partners to organize persuasive essays
- New Word Study spelling list
- Social Studies
- What it means to be a Historian
- Primary vs. Secondary Sources
- 5 Themes of Geography
Important Information:
- Annual Holiday Raffle - Send your child with donations
- Monday Dec. 6th through Friday Dec. 10th
- Prizes donated by GHCDS faculty & staff
- Tickets are 25 cents each
- Winners announced on Tuesday Dec. 14th
- All $$ will be donated to St. Croix Environmental Association (see description at end)
- GHCDS Spelling Bee
- Monday Dec. 6th @ 9:50am
- If your child is participating, you will receive a Zoom link
- Make-Up Steel Pan Concert
- Filmed on Friday Dec. 10th
- Video will be sent out shortly after that
- New Trimester 2 Specials
- Schedule is taped into your child's homework folder
- For Art, students need to bring in a sketchbook
- For Music, students need a folder and a highlighter
- Some students brought one in at the beginning of the year, so ask your child if they need one or not
- Picture Day Make-Up will be in January
- Winter Break
- Half Day Friday Dec. 17th - 12:30pm Dismissal
- Be on the lookout for a separate e-mail about a holiday celebration
- School Resumes on Monday Jan. 10th
- CLASSROOM SUPPLIES NEEDED
- Plastic utensils
- Glue sticks
- Individual scotch tape
SEA: The St. Croix Environmental Association was founded in 1986 to protect the island’s environment through education, conservation and advocacy. Our programs through the years have been varied and have responded to current environmental needs and issues of the island. Our education program includes regular community events such as free public snorkel clinics, nature walks, and Bioblitzes. We offer summer camp programs and respond to school requests for environmental lessons and field trips. SEA recently hired a new Education Coordinator, Olivia Walton, an alum of GHCDS. We have recently started creating content such as videos and scavenger hunt booklets that can be used within the varying COVID restrictions. Our conservation programs are currently focused on restoration of endangered species such as the endemic St. Croix Agave and St. Croix ground lizard, and management of two nature preserves. SEA’s advocacy work is varied and includes the training of community organizers, testifying on local environmental legislation, commenting on issues before the EPA that are relevant globally, leadership on the Climate Strong Islands Network, and working to hold local businesses accountable for their environmental impacts on the community.
