December 2024
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
- Kindergarteners will discuss hardware and software; students will discuss the importance of staying safe when using the computer and internet.
- First graders will create and type rules about staying safe online in school and/or at home.
- Second graders will work with a partner to create an Online Safety slideshow.
- Third graders will create a comic strip about a cyberbullying situation, and explain how to handle it appropriately.
- Fourth graders will work with a partner to create a presentation that teaches others important information about their digital footprint, and how to handle cyberbullying.
- Fifth graders will create a PSA that offers information on how to be smart on the internet.
Art
- Kindergarten students will learn about the crayon resist process by creating a space scene featuring rocket ships.
- First grade students will learn about warm and cool colors by painting city scenes with reflections.
- Second grade students will learn about piranhas by creating a paper fold drawing.
- Third grade students will learn about the artist Vincent van Gogh, by creating “Starry Night” inspired resists.
- Fourth grade students will learn about hand anatomy by drawing X-Ray hands using oil pastels.
- Fifth grade students will learn about the artwork of Keith Haring, by creating Haring inspired autobiographical drawings.
Physical Education
- Grades K-2: Students will participate in a variety of winter wonderland throwing games as well as chasing and fleeing games.
- Grades 3-5: Students will continue practicing throwing and catching games. They will play a variety of games that use these skills as well as use teamwork in Winter-Wonderland invasion games.