December 7th-11th

Hello!

In December we begin to celebrate half birthdays which begins with June birthdays.  A few parents have emailed about treats and thank you for checking for the days.  Also, do not feel like you have to send something in…that is just an option! 

Do you sew? Or do you know someone who does?  A few of our chair pockets are in rough shape and could be fixed up! Let me know if you know someone who could help our class out.  Thanks

Thursday is family night and we will be showing our published information books.  Students may also wear their pajamas to school.

Upcoming Events:

Thursday, December 10th-PJs, Pizza and Publishing Family Night, 5:30-7:00

 Tuesday, December 15th-11:30 Dismissal

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

Curriculum Updates:

Readers' Workshop:  We are planning to think and talk by using key words we are learning in our books and using drama to bring our read alouds to life.  At the end of the week we will choose a topic we want to learn more about and read several books about that topic to grow our thinking.

Writers' Workshop: This week in our information books we will review our writing checklist and set new goals, use photographs or pictures about our topic to help us teach our readers even more, edit "as we go" to remember to add punctuation as we write, and prepare our books for our publishing night on Thursday.

Word Study:  The words are: them, here, boy, girl, little. We will be assessing these words on Friday. These are words we want students to be able to read and write automatically without having to think to sound them out.

Math Workshop: This week we are starting a new unit-Place Value Concepts. Our big goals of the unit are: read, write and represent 2-digit numbers as tens and ones, compare two 2-digit numbers, add tens and one, use strategies to add within 20, and use addition within 20 to solve story problems.

Science/Social Studies:  We finished our science centers last week.  We also did a rainy day experiment to determine what would be best to wear in the rain. This week we will pick a topic we want to research more and use books and ipads.  

Have a great week! 

Samantha