Sunday, December 17, 2017

Week of December 18, 2017

This week we will be finishing our Eric Carle unit.  We have been discussing stories - characters, setting, beginning, middle and end.  We have been discussing problem and solution as well.  The students have really enjoyed this unit.

We are writing stories with a beginning, middle and end.  This week we will share our finished stories with our friends.

In math we continue to work with tens frames, teen numbers and we are solving number stories - addition and subtraction.

Our star student this week is:  Sanjida

REMINDER:
We look forward to seeing you on Friday at 11:15 for our special lunch and candy house project.
Please remember to bring a lunch for you and your child.

Friday is an early dismissal day!

HAVE A VERY HAPPY HOLIDAY!

Sunday, December 10, 2017

Week of December 11, 2017

This week we continue our Eric Carle unit.  We will read more of his books and continue to talk about characters, setting, problem and solution.  We will retell the stories we have read and include characters, setting, beginning, middle and end in our retelling.

We continue to work on the stories we are writing.  We are writing three good sentences - beginning, middle and end.  We are remembering to include details in our pictures.

For math this week we are beginning to work with teen numbers.  We also are working on number stories and shapes.

We continue to talk about December holidays and work on special holiday projects.

Our letter/sound and words this week are:   "ch", mom, dad, look

REMINDERS:

This week Wednesday, Thursday and Friday are short days for report card conferences.  Please be sure to sign and return the report card envelope.

We still need half gallon cardboard containers - so if you have any extra, please send them in.

Juliana was out star student and is sharing her journal page.


Sunday, December 3, 2017

Week of December 4, 2017

This week we continue our Eric Carle unit.  We are reading his books and writing and discussing characters, setting, problem and solution.  We are noticing his style of writing and we are noticing interesting words that he uses in his writing as well as his patterned language.

During math we will show various ways we can represent a number, we will be sequencing numbers and working on some survey questions using tally marks to respond.

We will be discussing December holidays and working on some special December projects.

The feeling word for the month of December is disappointment.  We will discuss and read some books about this feeling.

Our letter/sound and words this week are:  Bb;  all, my, little

Our star student this week  is Michaela.

REMINDERS:
Report cards will go home on Friday.

Have a great week!