December 2025
Music
Students will work on activities related to the season of Winter.
Media Center
- Kindergarten – Students will learn about roles and responsibilities of people in the school community.
- 1st grade – students will learn family and communities are important. We will focus on how families influence who we are?
- 2nd grade – students will learn about our community’s geography by discovering the 5 boroughs of NYC through maps, internet tools, and research. We will also learn about New York’s unique cultural places.
- 3rd grade will continue working on their Cultural Slideshows, highlighting important features of their culture.
- 4th grade will be introduced to Project Soapbox, a program that will enable students to write and deliver speeches on community topics they care about.
- 5th grade will be introduced to Project Soapbox, a program that will enable students to write and deliver speeches on community topics they care about.
Computer Science
- Kindergarten through Second Grade: Students will learn how to stay safe online as they navigate kid-safe websites, and discuss what to do if someone makes you feel uncomfortable online.
- Third Grade through Fifth Grade: Students will discuss Online Safety and Digital Citizenship, as well as Cyberbullying and strategies for dealing with a cyberbully appropriately.
- Computer Science Education Week is December 8 – December 12, 2025.
Art
- Kindergarten students will learn about collage by creating designs using construction paper, glue, and scissors.
- First grade students will learn about patterns by drawing a snowman winter scene using oil pastels.
- Second grade students will learn about owls by drawing the nocturnal bird using a continuous line with pencil, then coloring with watercolor paints.
- Third grade students will learn how to create Chinese Decorative Plates, using thick paper plates, markers, and water.
- Fourth grade students will learn how to draw portraits inspired by anime.
- Fifth grade students learn about silhouettes and color values by painting monochromatic scenes featuring birds and trees.
Physical Education
- Grades K-2: Students will learn and practice a variety of motor skills and movement patterns. They will focus on locomotor/nonlocomotor skills, and spatial awareness. Skills will be learned through a variety of games and stations.
- Grades 3-5: Students will be introduced to our Cooperative Learning unit. This unit will emphasize the importance of teamwork, positive communication, and problem solving. Students will play a variety of games that will help with team-building.
Drama/Theater
- Pre-K & Kindergarten: Students in Pre-K and Kindergarten are continuing to use their imaginations, voices, and bodies while focusing on emotions and feelings in stories. In December, students will act out simple scenes and explore how characters move, sound, and express different emotions.
- Grade 1: First graders are currently working on practicing how to act out a story with clear voices and teamwork. In December, they will continue using simple scripts, puppets, and group work to retell the story with expression.
- Grade 2: Second graders are focusing on visualizing characters, settings, and actions. In December, they will move into script reading, acting out scenes, and exploring how characters’ choices drive the story.
- Grade 3: Third graders are building on their work with point of view and character feelings. In December, they will continue script work, act out scenes in groups, and explore how perspective changes a story.
- Grades 4–5: Fourth and fifth graders are developing skills in improv and pantomime. In December, they will use these techniques to build ensemble scenes, strengthen expression, and collaborate in small groups. Fifth grade will also be working on scene writing.