MARK YOUR CALENDARS:
** Newly added dates are marked with ** for those who follow and mark their calendars every week.
Monday, 12/18 and Wednesday 12/20: Fitness Peek Week. Families are invited to come in and participate with our class in P.E. Our P.E. times are: Monday from 12:15-12:45 and Wednesday from 1:15-1:45. Please click HERE for more information.
Monday, 12/18 and Wednesday 12/20: Fitness Peek Week. Families are invited to come in and participate with our class in P.E. Our P.E. times are: Monday from 12:15-12:45 and Wednesday from 1:15-1:45. Please click HERE for more information.
Friday, 12/22: Final day for donations for the Circle of Hope Coat Drive. There are boxes outside our classroom door and in the main hallway if you are interested in donating. Click HERE for more information.
Monday 12/25-Mon. 1/1: NO SCHOOL - December Recess
**Monday 1/15: NO SCHOOL - Martin Luther King Day
Monday 12/25-Mon. 1/1: NO SCHOOL - December Recess
**Monday 1/15: NO SCHOOL - Martin Luther King Day
ASK ME ABOUTS:
Ask me about...
- the presentation given by the teachers and students from the Jingshan School in Beijing, China.
- our time with Ralph Masiello and what we drew with him.
- non-fiction text features...as you are reading non-0fiction at home notice features such as headings, photographs and their captions, diagrams, charts, etc. Discuss what you can learn from them.
- making change...how can I count up to make change for items?
- telling time. Continue practicing this at home with both digital and analog clocks.
- my Plus Time group. What did I work on this week?
- what informational book I started this week.
- what I know about the Earth.
LOOKING FORWARD:
Looking forward, we will:- continue learning about and reading non-fiction. We will learn more about how to determine word meaning in various ways.
- begin unit 7 in fundations, focusing on open syllables, y as a vowel and y, ly and ty suffixes.
- continue our informational writing unit focusing on writing non-fiction. We will focus on generating ideas, thinking about the many different things we know about from experience. We will then determine how to sort our ideas into different chapters and begin our stories. Please talk with your child about any talents or interests that they have that they may want to write non-fiction books about.
- work with data by creating and interpreting graphs.
- continue learning about the sun, moon and Earth through videos, direct observation, non-fiction and fiction texts, poetry, making models and discussion.
