Christmas! 

We had a FANTASTIC Christmas celebration here at Bethlehem! We built gumdrop Christmas trees with our chapel buddies, participated in crafts, and had a fun party. 
We also had a blast on the bowling field trip! 
For math, the students worked on plotting a special Christmas picture on a coordinate plane.


In social studies, we went through an overview of U.S. history as we explore the U.S. Students used a World Atlas historical timeline to put together their own timelines of U.S. history.

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