Notes from Ms. Rau:
- 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
- Kindness Elf - We will have an elf in our classroom that will come visit us on 12/3. He will be our kindness elf. Each day our elf will be hiding in a new spot and will have a new random act of kindness for students to do.
- 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:
- 12/3 - Reading Celebration (please bring a stuffed animal and your favorite 5-10 books from home!)
- 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...
- Teach using pictures AND words
- learn that including specific information is important such as size, color, number, and shape
- be brave enough to spell fancy, domain specific topic words
- use readers to add and subtract information
- Readers will...
- celebrate their hard work during our reading detective unit
- begin a nonfiction reading mini study to immerse
- look closely, point to the pictures, ask questions, and talk about their nonfiction books so they can become experts on topics
- learn that nonfiction readers use the same strategies as fiction readers do when they are getting ready to read
- learn that they use the whole page and their whole brain to learn as much as possible about their books
- teach their partners what they have learned while reading NF books
- Mathematicians will...
- solve mixed story problems and figure out which number is the unknown (either the partner or the total)
- apply story problems in real word situations
- complete the unit 3 review
- complete the unit 3 assessment
- In social studies we will...
- learn ways in which families change over time
- name responsibilities and activities that change as a child grows older
- identify two reasons for change in a family size
- look at families then and now
- In phonics we will...
- solve the compound word puzzle
- track down the look alike word part (use parts you know to solve words)
- play the I Spy Sight Word game
- look for words that have similar parts
Photos from the week:
Researching topics on pebble go for nonfiction writing immersion
Solving the case of Twin Letters in phonics
Solving the case of contractions in phonics
Working on our fine motor to create a ripped paper snowman craft as apart of our shared reading extension :)
