Hello Agents,

This is our last week of school before Christmas! We will be doing many Christmas themed activities, such as a Secret Santa with paper crafts that we make in class. Wednesday is our Silly sweater day and Thursday is Knight Day.

Here are your objectives this week.

• Spelling: We will not have a spelling list this week. Instead, we will do Christmas themed writing and reading.
• Language Arts: We will keep working on our personal story writing.
• Math: We will do a variety of themed math activities as well as working on the basics of multiplication and division skills this week. Make sure to keep practicing skip counts as we learn multiplication.
• Social Studies: We will learn about ways people have celebrated Christmas in the past and in different cultures.
• Science: We will conduct an experiment to demonstrate the different ways to transfer heat: conduction (touch), convection (flow), and radiation (light waves).
• Bible: We will continue our study of the story of Christmas.
• Art: We will have Christmas themed art projects.

Homework:

• Read 15 min. I am sending books home, and I will test them on fluency and comprehension in class.
  • For Epic Books, click here and enter the class code: dwx8046
• Skip count by 2, 3, 4, 5, 8 and 10. Use the Hundreds Chart to count.
• Spelling List Practice: Have students sound out the words. Recognizing the phonograms in each word is the most important part of how we teach students to spell with SWR. For extra spelling practice, check out this page on spelling rules, which can be found in Online Learning Resources.
• Optional learning extensions
  • Code.org, class code: DSRPTY
  • Prodigy, class code: 5A36CB6

I look forward to our last week of Christmas activities!

Important Reminders

We are having difficulty meeting our goal this year, please help us raise $5,000.00 for our school goal, which will result in a K-Gr.12 Pajama Day on Wednesday January 6, 2021.

Food drive donations can be made in the following ways:

– Cash handed in to classroom teachers or the school office
– etransfer@highroadacademy.com (please note your name and purpose of the transfer in the notes/memo field)
– cheque (payable to Highroad Academy)
– debit at the school office (by appointment)

Important Dates

Wednesday Dec. 16th– K-Gr. 6 Silly Sweater Day
Gr. 7-12 Christmas sweater or Christmas character day

Thursday Dec. 17th– Knight Day, Last day of school before Christmas Break! See you after Christmas Break!