Hello, 4A families!
Congratulations to everyone for their hard work in making our Christmas concert a great success!
This month we have been reading the Nativity story from the Gospel accounts of Matthew and Luke, comparing what each book tells us about Jesus’ birth. Part of learning the story for our class has been going line by line in both Matthew and Luke to see what is really there…
We are seeing how Matthew highlights prophecy and lineage, while Luke draws us into the shepherds’ story and the wonder of the angelic announcement. Together, these two voices give us a richer picture—and they have sparked meaningful conversations and our own dramatizations in class.
Meanwhile, our room has is transforming into a creative workshop as students work on their Learning Coats, dive deeper into their Personal Interest Projects, and build their own Nativity scenes using found, recycled, and natural materials.
These nativity scene projects are due next Tuesday, Dec. 16, but students are welcome to bring them earlier if finished, or to bring materials to school if they’d like to keep working during class. Creating them entirely at home is perfectly fine too. *Remember, this should be a joyful, creative and low stress project that doesn’t require any new materials to be purchased. We have already seen wonderful scenes made entirely out of paper and cardboard.
In Math, we’ve been building confidence with the box method for multiplying a one-digit number by a number up to three digits—breaking big ideas into manageable parts.
In Art, the students have now finished their “Natural Textures” project, which helped them to explore new pencil drawing techniques.
And in Language Arts, we continue our work on storytelling and building vocabulary with a word study on spelling patterns that make the hard /k/sound.
As always, thank you for your support at home. Advent is such a special season of learning, worship, and wonder, and your children bring joy into everything we do.
Tiffany Poirier 