Hi All! I hope you had a great vacation! Just wanted to give you a few updates….

This week we begin all of our new units! For math we will write in our planners each day what lesson we did. It will say M3L1. That means Module 3 Lesson 1. If you would like to do the apply lesson to match you may. This will help us stay on the same page.

For reading we have 5 books in bags weekly and I asked the students to read 1 book each night. I have moved on to the book room books and have access to new ones so hopefully I have enough of a selection to get us through to Spring break. They will continue to do spelling words and spelling choice boards each week through Unit 10 of benchmark.

In Science we begin our new unit next week- properties of materials which includes an experiment at the end! 🙂

For Social Studies we will be learning about Maps!

Over the next three weeks we will need to complete the IReady reading and math test and the formal DRA reading level assessment. These will be scheduled and spaced out and you will know ahead of time before we take them. I will have the students write about it in their planner the day before.

It was so nice to gets all the hugs and see so many smiles this morning… They were excited to come back to school and I promised them we will slowly get back in to worktimes 🙂

Have a great Monday!

I hope you all had a restful and great winter break!!

Reminder tomorrow is a HALF DAY and school gets out at 11:30 am!

What a busy week! We had so much fun with holiday projects this week it seemed to fly by!

Thank you all so much for spoiling me as well. You did not need to send in things but thank you again. <3

I hope you all have a restful winter break and great holiday!

We are going to do the spelling test tomorrow to just get it over with! They know these words and will do great. You can either turn in spelling choice board tomorrow or Friday. Either way is fine with me. 🙂

I have collected all book bags and will keep them until after winter break. Your child can read books from home and the library to get their 20 minutes of reading each night.

On Friday we will have an all school sing along! We unfortunately do not have enough room to invite parents to this so we will be live streaming some parts of it on our schools Instagram page! You must be a follower of @howemontessoriandsped to see us go live and watch the video! We will stream a couple parts throughout the hour sing along. Reminder that this is not a concert …. this is simply a fun sing along to end our week and get us excited for holiday break. Special thanks to Mrs. Reed for planning and preparing the students.

Remember to send your child in holiday pjs on Friday so we can all match at the sing along.

VERY IMPORTANT—- The first day back in January- Monday the 6th is a HALF DAY with 11:30 am dismissal! Please make note of this!

All FINISHED candy cane grams are due back tomorrow morning! 🙂 We start spirit week tomorrow…. Remember to wear holiday hats/socks!

Hello all! Unfortunately I will be absent on Monday & Tuesday. I have a family funeral to attend. Ms D will be subbing for me and has everything she needs to keep the class running. I will be periodically checking email so let me know if you need anything.

Hello parents! We have had a busy and productive week! I let them know… 3 weeks until another break and report card grades are due. We are going to be working on Benchmark Unit 4 during these weeks and strengthening our fiction writing and reading. The fiction story coming home this week we did together as a class to learn the writing maps and process. Next week they will start creating their own fiction stories. For Eureka math we worked on lessons 20-24. All of the lessons were subtraction with either drawing or using the stamp game in class. And slowly but surely we are finishing up the amplify life science lessons with the Bengal Tigers and chalta trees. Our days seem to fly by so fast we run out of minutes to get everything done!

Reminder that your child should be reading nightly! Everyday at pack up time I remind them to take home book bags. They should be reading nightly for 20 minutes. We want to keep pushing forward with our awesome reading growth and this is done by continuing to read and practice. I purposely give them easy, medium and a hard leveled book for their book bag each week.

Candy cane gram order forms coming home in folders today! Discuss with your child how many they would like to send and then send in the order form next week with EXACT CASH! Your child will bring the candy cane grams home to fill out. Send back completed grams to school by Monday, December 16th. Before winter break each child will get their bag of candy cane grams.

Reminder of Grinch movie night on Tuesday, December 10th at 5 pm in the gym. Parents must stay with children for the movie. Pillows, blankets, and pjs are encouraged. Food and drinks will be for sale by PTA.

Have a great weekend!