- Holiday Celebration: Our Holiday Celebration will be on Friday, December 21st from 10-11am. This is a half day for students. Dismissal will be at 11:30.
- Oakland County Animal Shelter Service Project: This holiday season we would like to teach students the power of giving. We have collaborated with Oakland Animal Shelter to help provide their animals with some basic needs. We will collect and create items to help make the lives of homeless pets more comfortable as they await their forever homes. We know that there are many demands on your time and budget this time of the year, so please keep in mind that participation in this project is completely voluntary. You are welcome to consider a donation to the Animal Shelter instead of a class or teacher gift this year. We will collect the above donations until the class holiday party on December 21. You may donate the following items:
- Cat and dog toys
- Cat and dog treats
- Cat litter
- Kitten formula (dry milk that we use to bottle feed kittens)
- Bottles to feed the kittens
- Snow Gear: Please send in snow gear in a separate bag. Large reusable bags work best. Students will be asked to take their boots off in the hallway so please make sure they are labeled and that you send in an extra pair of shoes for them to wear during the day. Please send me a note if you want your student to leave their snow gear in their locker instead of taking it home each day. If there is snow on the ground and your student does not have snow pants they will be asked to play on the black top during recess. If you are in need of snow gear, please let me know! Thank you!
Important Dates:
- 12/21 - Holiday Celebration 10:00-11:00am
- 12/21 - Half Day for Students, Dismissal at 11:30
- 12/24 -1/4 - Winter Break, No School for Students
- 1/21 - MLK Day, No School for Students
Learning This week:
- Writers will...
- use pebble go to research topics that interest them to immerse into nonfiction writing
- get ready to write by teaching all about a topic
- tell information across their fingers, sketch, then write
- keep readers in mind, writing to answer their questions
- Readers will...
- break off the endings of words (ing, ed, s)
- look out for vowel teams
- use word parts they know to read new words
- watch out for unusual words (compound words)
- smooth out their reading
- Mathematicians will...
- relate addition and subtraction stories
- solve mixed story problems
- create their own story problems
- Scientists will...
- record their grass growth
- learn about parts of a plant and their specific job
- learn why some seeds die
- In phonics we will...
- learn to break apart words with twin letters
- find 3 letter tricksters in words
- learn about contractions
- learn about compound words
