December 6th

Happy Monday!

First, I want to congratulate my class for their wonderful job hosting Town Meeting today! Everyone read their poems with expression and enthusiasm. I was very proud!

Upcoming Events:
The Holiday Gift Drive ends this Friday. This is optional. If you would like to participate please place the gifts in the bin located outside of our classroom. More information regarding this can be found on the letter previously sent home. Thanks for your generosity already!

The children will see the play, "The Hundred Dresses", this Wednesday afternoon. I read the story aloud to them. Please ask your child how the story compared with the play.

Our class party is being coordinated by our room parents. Please refer to their emails for more information regarding this.

We will have an Author's Celebration on Friday, December 17th from 10:30-11:00. The students will share their published pieces of writing to date. We hope you can join us!

Spirit Day is Friday, December 17th. This is also a noon dismissal.

This week in class:
Reading- We are working on our vocabulary. The quizzes will be this Friday. We are also practicing contractions with our spelling words. We will play the game "Sparkle" later this week. If you don't know what this is, please ask your child. They get very excited about this game! The students are enjoying the class novel, The Whipping Boy. We are spending time discussing vocabulary, dialect, and comprehension.

Writing-We are publishing our second personal narrative.

Mathematics-This week we will have a test over what we have learned about multiplication and division. The practice test will be on Thursday and the chapter test will be Friday.

Science-We learned about stored energy.

Social Studies-Since we didn't finish the Florida Indians last week, we will definitely finish this topic this week.

Wishing you all a wonderful week!