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CCHS 
Last week, the staff at CCHS had a “Staff Underground” spirit week to celebrate the holiday season and the end of the first semester. Vice Principal Reema Pulsifer planned five dress-up days that were festive and fun. Monday was Unity Day where staff united in all-black attire. Tuesday was Santa Hat Day and staff came wearing Santa hats. Wednesday was Flannel Frenzy Day where staff wore some cozy plaid to school. Thursday was Anything But a Cup Day where staff members brought a unique item to drink out of that was not a cup. Friday the school held an ugly sweater contest. This was the grand finale as staff came to school wearing the most outlandish holiday sweaters they could find. “I want to give a huge shoutout to our incredible crew for making our first Underground Staff Spirit week an absolute success. Thank you for putting up with my wild and holly-jolly ideas,” Pulsifer said. 

CCMS
On Friday, December 20, CCMS celebrated their students who achieved perfect attendance during the first semester with a pizza party. “We had 44 students who made it to school every single day during the first semester. We could not be prouder of this huge accomplishment and wanted to be sure they were celebrated before leaving for Winter Break,” Principal Victor Schoenfeldt said. As an extra reward, all perfect attendance students were entered into a drawing for a $25 Amazon gift card. Sixth-grade student Emerson Weldon Word was the lucky winner. Each quarter, the reward for perfect attendance will grow bigger. In the final quarter, students who have perfect attendance will receive a reward and have the chance to win a $100 Amazon gift card. 

Numa 
Students in Aspen Johnson's 5th-grade class held snowflake races the week before Winter Break. Students received a paper that said "slow" or "fast" and had to create a snowflake that either fell slow or fast. Students also had an opportunity to select an extreme design challenge that added another specification to their snowflake, such as, "design a 12-sided snowflake" or "cut a star-shaped hole in the middle of your snowflake." Students had 20 minutes to design and cut out their snowflakes before they were called up to race them. In the fast category, Cash Craig won with his six-pointed snowflake. In the slow category, Gio Martinez won with his large and rectangular snowflake. 

E.C. Best  
For the last three weeks, students in Melissa Humphrey’s class have been learning how to write an informative text by researching an animal they chose from the National Geographic Kids website. Using their note taker, they had to find out their animal’s habitat, appearance, diet, and adaptations they have in order to live in their habitat. After obtaining information on their animal students had to put the facts into a five-sentence paragraph using a topic sentence, three strong sentences, and a closing sentence. The next step was to draw a diagram of their animal and label their body parts. The finished product was a poster with their animal diagram and report. Students completed the project and practiced their speaking standards by presenting their animals to their classmates.     

Lahontan 
Kindergarten students in Traci Ledesma's class enjoyed hearing several versions of the gingerbread man story. The gingerbread man even visited their classroom each morning. “The kids were so excited to come in, find his hiding spot, and see if the gingerbread man had left a treat or tricked them,” Lesdema said. To end the gingerbread unit each student created their own giant gingerbread boy or girl.

Northside Early Learning Center 

Before Winter Break Octavia Merritt’s class had a visit from Santa Claus and got to practice their cookie decorating skills by decorating cookies he brought for the students. “This was such a fun day for the class. They really enjoyed seeing Santa and each of them got to tell him what they wanted for Christmas and got peppermint candy from him,” Merritt said.