Our little tree has a few presents underneath it, but will look even better when all the grab bag gifts are in. Please send in the grab bag gifts this week. (The actual grab bag 'game' will take place next Wednesday, December 21 at our breakfast party.)
Reading Workshop: We have been enjoying many winter/holiday themed books this month. We have been paying careful attention to the characters in our books and noticing what they say, how they act, things they like/dislike, etc.
Writing Workshop: Our Realistic Fiction books are all published and look great! We have been enjoying reading each other's stories and can't wait to bring the hardcover books home to share with our families. Our focus for December is writing persuasive letters. We will start this week. The children will be expected to think about something they want and will have to come up with reasons to support their idea. We will be writing to Miss Judy in the cafeteria telling her what new lunch item she should consider offering; Mr. Rechi & Mr. Foreshaw to tell them an idea we have to make our school even better; Santa convincing him that Rudolph deserves a job and also a letter explaining how good we have been. It should be interesting to see the reasons that the students develop.
Math: We took our Unit 4 assessment last Friday. We will begin Unit 5 this week. This week's topics are:
-Writing related addition stories
-Using the "Turnaround" fact to add
-Adding 1,2 or 3 to a teen number
-Finding parts equal to a given total
-Adding more than two numbers
Homework
Monday 12/12
1. Read for at least 10 mintues
2. Winter Word Work
Tuesday 12/13
1. Read for at least 10 minutes
2. Math: The Jolly Family
Wednesday 12/14
1. Read for at least 10 minutes
2. Bake your cookies!
Thursday 12/15
1. Read for at least 10 minutes
2. Review words for tomorrow's spelling test.
Have a great week!
