Dec 18-22

The kids have been having so much fun spending their recesses in the snow!  Just a quick reminder to label your child's snow accessories...you'd be amazed at how many black and pink snow pants and gloves pass through this hallway each day!  Due to the time of year, this will be an exciting week for kids!  We will keep our learning focused, but also make time for some holiday fun!


Important Dates and Reminders:
December 21: PJ day
December 22-January 1: NO SCHOOL

Math: Those tricky teen numbers will continue to be one thing we focus on this week, as we look for groups of ten ones and then add on any extra ones to determine quantity.  We are learning it is easy to see a group of ten when it is organized in two groups of 5 or a long group of 10, but tricky when we are looking at a random group of objects (see picture below).

 We will also work hard this week to show, recognize, understand and name the partners of numbers 2-6. Please see this note for an explanation of partners and how we use this term in math.

Reading: This week we will continue super charging our reading super powers!  We will focus on using book talk power and partner power to not only read new and challenging books, but to really understand what the books are teaching or how the story goes.  We will also work on making predictions and rereading when something doesn't make sense to us.

Writing: We will be wrapping up our true stories unit this week.  We will learn to revise and edit so our writing is readable to others.  To do this we will use a checklist that includes revising and editing tasks and will also work with a partner to ask and answer questions about our story.

Social Studies: This week we will participate in some holiday activities from the new holidays we learned about.  We will be playing the dreidel game and making Kwanzaa mats.  We will also have some Christmas fun by writing our own song to a familiar Christmas tune!