Week 19!

Good Morning! 

With just a few days before winter break, we have some important things coming up and I want to make sure that you are all informed!

Holiday Book Exchange

After our world religions party on 12/20, we will have a class book exchange! Please have your child bring a new or gently used book (non-pop culture) that can be enjoyed by both boy and girls. Please wrap the book or place it in a gift bag. 

Grocery Bags

Please have your child bring 2 or more grocery bags to school by Wednesday.  We will use these bags to clean our desks and to take our treasures home on Wednesday. 

No Backpacks or Lunchboxes on Wednesday

Please do not send your child to school with their backpacks or lunchboxes on Wednesday, 12/20 as we will be cleaning out our desks and need space to put our desk materials.

Field Trip

Our field trip to the Arizona Science Center will be January 19th!  We will leave at 8:30 and return at 2:00. Students will bring a lunch and we will eat at the Science Center. We will also see a Grand Tour of the Solar System at the Planetarium. We will accept the first five parents who would like to volunteer to be chaperones. Please reply to the email if you would like to help!  Permission slips were sent home today. 

THANK YOU!

Thank you for a beautiful 2nd quarter. It has been an honor teaching your children so far this year and we will miss their smiling faces and warm hugs over the break! Happy Holidays to all! 

Academics this week:

Literature: This week we will finish our Frog and Toad unit with an assessment on Monday.  Tuesday and Wednesday we will read stories about Br’er Rabbit. 

Spalding: We will be reviewing and practicing important aspects of Spalding. We will practice handwriting, challenging phonograms, frequently used rules and markings, and active participation in every lesson. Homework will be handwriting practice and we will not have a spelling test this week.

Writing: We will be reading excerpts from The Railway Children.  Students will listen to passages and retell important details from the story.  We will also work on basic conventions of a proper sentence and rewrite model sentences.

Science: This week we will take a short quiz to check to for understanding of solids, liquids, and gases. Then, we will review the scientific method with a candy cane experiment! We will predict what will happen if we put candy canes in cups of vinegar, warm water, and cold water. After the experiment we will make observations about the effect of vinegar, warm water, and cold water on the candy canes.

History: This week we review what we have learned about Mexico and will finish by making our very own piñata! 

Math: This week we will be working closely with different concepts of addition and subtraction learned throughout this quarter. This will include completing number bonds, filling in ten frames, identifying place value, and counting up and down from small to big numbers.