Duneland School Holiday Concerts and Events
All of our school's holiday concerts are free and open to the public, except the CHS Madrigal Dinners
Dec. 14 - CHS Band, Choir, Orchestra Holiday Concert-Aud. at 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. (Two (2) performances)
PLEASE NOTE: This year's CHS Holiday Concert is a combined Choir/Band/Orchestra event. Due to the number of students involved, all attendees will need a ticket. Tickets are FREE but must be reserved and printed in advance from www.showtix4u.com (search CHS MUSIC DEPT. HOLIDAY CONCERT)
Dec. 16 - CMS Band Holiday Concert at 7 p.m.
Thursday 19, 2019
- 8:00 AM - 9:00 AM Holiday Parties
December 20, 2019
December 23, 2019
December 24, 2019
December 25, 2019
December 26, 2019
December 27, 2019
It has been a busy week in High
Ability. The children have all been working very hard. They amaze me every day.
We spent some time this week making
polyhedron ornaments. Look for them to
come home next week.
1st Grade:
The children took turns giving their
presentations this week in the reading chair.
This was very exciting for them to present their hard work. This time
though they just had to press play. I am very happy how well this turned out. Please ask them to share with you their hard
work.
We then moved on to a worksheet
where they were given a word clue. They could only change one letter to fit the
clue. Most did a fantastic job making the word connections.
2nd Grade:
With white boards in hand, I walked
around the room with a stuffed raccoon. I asked the children to come up with as
many adjectives as they could about the stuffed animal. A few asked what an
adjective was again. After explaining to them, they got to work. 
The children
took turns giving their answers. A few were still confused about what an
adjective was. We then watched a School House video on adjectives. I presented
them with a sentence, they took turns adding adjectives to it. They then
created their own sentence.
3rd Grade:
This week the children worked on a
Vocabulary Map. The word they had to look up was naturalist. They could use
either i-Pads or dictionaries. They needed to define the word, write a source
sentence, find synonyms and antonyms, write a student sentence and find the
part of speech. 
They were then supposed to present our homework that was given
to them last Tuesday. Only one student completed the assignment so it put us
back a bit. Hopefully, they complete their paragraph and we can move on next
week to Jane Goodall.
4th Grade:
We met up to finish our discussion
on Ruby Bridges and complete our biography organizer. The girls were amazing in
coming up with Ruby’s major contributions. They were very impressed how change
played a huge part in this true story of a little girl. Not only did Ruby clear
the road for integration she also formed the Ruby Bridges Foundation to combat
racism. They were sad to hear that racism still exists today. 
We then moved on
to Rules To The Order Of Adjectives. The girls were surprised that there are 10
rules of how you should order adjectives in a sentence. We will continue with
this lesson next week.
1st Grade:
We only met one time this week due
to their field trip. We started the worksheet Compare Three Weights. The
children had pictures of three different objects that they had to decide if
they were heavier than or lighter than. I then took objects from their baggies
that they brought in and weighed them. They had to do the same thing as the
other problem. We then had to order them from Heaviest to lightest. Pretty sure
these kiddos have mastered this! We will continue with this next week.
2nd Grade:
The children have continued to work
on their tessellation patterns. They are taking math pattern blocks and putting
them together to make a shape that they can flip, slide or turn. Once they are
finished they are to check with me to make sure it is an actual tessellation
and not a mosaic pattern.
Then they colored the pattern into their workbook.
This has proved somewhat difficult for the children. We had to have a mini
lesson on flip, slid and turn. All are very excited for the upcoming holiday so
they may be losing a bit of their focus. We are taking this a bit slower for
that reason. We will keep pushing ahead.
3rd Grade:
This week we worked on “Finding the
Function in the Pattern” worksheet. We had some trouble with that on our test,
so we are just reviewing to make sure we understand the pattern. The children
also were working on our Zaccaro packet’s.
Next week we will finish up the
lesson by doing a Think Frame and a Think Deeply. I didn’t want to move to
anything new due to the holiday break.
4th Grade
We continued our lesson this week on
polyhedrons. If you remember, a polyhedron is a 3D shape that is formed by
polygons that enclose a region in space. A non-polyhedron does not have shapes
that are flat such as a sphere, cylinder, cone, or hemisphere.
The children took a sheet of paper and
divided it in half with the labels polyhedron and non-polyhedron.
They then went around the room to different
centers and wrote the 3D shape under the correct term. To end the lesson this
week some of that children that were finished with the centers were able to
play a 3D matching game. That was a great way to end the week for us.
Hope everyone gets their shopping done.
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