December is here!

Wow! December is upon us. This month will be full of fun and exciting things in our classroom. As we have fun we will also be reviewing skills we have learned this semester. Please look on the back of your child's December calendar for a week-by-week summary.

This week will be a week of conclusions for us. We will be concluding our reading unit and our math chapter.

Reading: This week we will be reading the book Whose Garden Is It? by Mary Ann Hoberman. This is the final story in our unit about where animals live. In this story we will be learning about what lives in a garden environment. Our AMAZING WORDS this week are: garden, plant, soil, gardener, seed, and blossoms. Our sight words are he and for. Please review with your child all of the sight words we have learned so far this year: I, am, a, the, little, to, have, is, we, my, like, he, and for.

Phonics: We will continue with learning about the short /i/ sound. This is a very difficult sound for young readers, because it can be confused with the sound of short /e/. Some short /i/ words are: igloo, pig, milk, six, wig, and big.

Math: This week we will be concluding our chapter on geometry and fractions. This week we will be learning about fractions. We will focus on dividing objects into equal parts.

Family Holiday Glyph Project: In the upcoming weeks we will begin reviewing math concepts that we have learned during the year. One concept we have touched on is graphing. In the next few weeks we will be learning more about how information can be shared by using graphs. Another way to share information is through a glyph. A glyph is a way to convey information using pictures. In an effort to help our students learn more about graphs and glyphs we need your help. On Monday your child will be bringing home a "Family Holiday Glyph Project" packet. In this packet you will find a legend, a patterns sheet, and a piece of construction paper. Please help your child create his or her glyph using the legend and the patterns. You may attach the glyph to the construction paper. Glyphs are very simple to make, but tell you a great deal about the creator. Please return your child's glyph to school no later than Friday, December 5th. We appreciate your help with this project. If you have any questions, please let us know.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone has a safe and happy holiday. When we return from the holidays we will be finishing our unit on where animals live. We will also complete our chapter on geometry and fractions.

Brrrr it is cold!!

Wow! Winter seems to be upon us! It only seems fitting then that our story this week is about animals finding a warm place to live in the winter.

Reading: Our story this week is titled A Bed for the Winter written by Karen Wallace. In this story we will be learning about the types of homes animals need in the winter. Our AMAZING WORDS for this week are: meadow, stump, hive, nest, tree trunk and den. Our sight words this week are he and for.

Phonics: This week we will be learning about the sound made by short i. The sound that the students will be learning is the sound you hear at the beginning of the word igloo.

Math: This week we will begin a new chapter about geometry and fractions. In this chapter we will be learning about solid figures, plain shapes, symmetry, and equal parts. Important vocabulary for this chapter includes: cone, sphere, cylinder, cube, circle, triangle, square, and rectangle.

Dates to Remember:
November 20th: Pictures with Santa and Thanksgiving Lunch
November 26th-28th: Thanksgiving Holidays NO SCHOOL

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Oops! Time has slipped by this week. I am very sorry for not having a post for this week. We have been very busy! But rest assured we will have a post shortly for next week.
Ashley Avery

No School this Tuesday, November 4th

Please remember that Tuesday, November 4th is a Teacher In-Service day and students will have the joy of staying home!

Reading: This week we are reading Animal Babies in Grasslands by Jennifer Scholfield. Our concept question for this week is "Who lives in grasslands?" Our AMAZING WORDS this week are: calf, cub, joey, grassland, pup, and foal. Our sight words for this week are my, we, and like.
Phonics: This week we are learning about the /p/ sound made by letter Pp.
Math: We will continue to work on numbers 1-10 this week.

Reminder: Book Orders are due this Friday, November 7th. This will be our last book order before the Christmas holidays. Please remember that for every book YOU order we are able to get FREE books for the classroom.