December 16th

Hello,

Only a few days left until winter break! We are working on finishing up a few units before our days off.  Next Tuesday, December 23^rd, our class will be having our Grinch Day. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss is one of my favorite holiday books and I look forward to this day every year before break!  We will be doing some fun activities with the book and reading it.  Students may dress in green like the Grinch or like a Who from Whoville to join in on the fun!

We will be having yoga again this week Friday (thank you Mrs. McEneany), so remember to have your child wear comfy clothing.

Upcoming Events:

Thursday, December 24-Sunday January 3rd-Winter Break

Curriculum Updates:

Readers' Workshop: We've started to read about topics we are interested in. After spending some time reading about our topic, we meet with our clubmates to discuss and grow our ideas. This week we will be learning how we can use our hands and fingers to stay organized when telling the main idea and details of our book, comparing books about our topic to grow ideas and make our learning more interesting, coming up with our own ideas about what we are learning, and thinking about why what we are learning is so important.

Writers' Workshop: We will be finishing up our Informational Writing Unit before break.  This week we will be learning how we can teach readers what new words mean with words and pictures, how to edit step by step, and then fancy our books up for our celebration. 

Word Study:  The words this week are: did, was, tell, said, ride. We will be assessing these words on Friday. 

Math Workshop: This week we are working seeing 10s and extra ones.  We will also be using the Make a Ten strategy to solve story problems. Example: 7 tigers play games. Then 5 more tigers join them. How many tigers are playing games now?  7 needs 3 more to make a 10 and then 2 left over or 10+2=12 which is easier for us to solve.  We will also spend some time practicing doubles of numbers 1-10 (eg. 1+1=2, 2+2=4, 4+4=8).

Science/Social Studies: This week we are finishing up our research on Weather and will be presenting our information to the class.  We will also learn about who invented the umbrella and design our own.  We will finish up the unit with a final assessment.   Here are some pictures from our research. 

Sometimes we're not so organized :)

Have a great week!  

-Samantha