{"id":466,"date":"2014-11-21T10:50:08","date_gmt":"2014-11-21T15:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/?p=466"},"modified":"2014-11-21T10:50:08","modified_gmt":"2014-11-21T15:50:08","slug":"friday-newsletter-11-21-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/2014\/11\/21\/friday-newsletter-11-21-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Newsletter, 11-21-14"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>News and Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>No School<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>November 26<sup>th<\/sup>-November 28<sup>th<\/sup>, Thanksgiving Recess<\/p>\n<p><strong>November Reward Party for Good Behavior<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, December 2<sup>nd<\/sup><\/p>\n<p>We are watching a short movie and you may bring your favorite \u201cjunkie snack\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Winter Clothes\/ Boots<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Winter has come early!\u00a0 Thank you for dressing your student so warm!\u00a0 <strong>Please remember to pack tennis shoes if your child wears snow boots to school.\u00a0 They will need to change into shoes before coming in the classroom so we can keep the floor and rug area clean and dry.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>If the temperature is above 20 degrees (with windshield) we are allowed to be outdoors for recess and morning line up.\u00a0 If the temperature is below that there will be indoor recess and students are allowed to line up against their locker in the hallway in the morning.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What We Did This Week<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Our new AlphaFriend was Callie Cat, letter C<\/p>\n<p>In math we continued work with patterns, writing numerals and using our geometric shape templates to draw shapes.<\/p>\n<p>During Daily 5 we used the Wikki Stix to outline alphabet letters, listened to a story about Bears, wrote in our Work on Writing notebook and selected new texts for Read to Self.<\/p>\n<p>In handwriting this week we focused on letter E, using \u201cbig line\u201d and \u201clittle lines\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In Science we used our sense of sight to observe color changes using water and food coloring.<\/p>\n<p>We continue to read and write about Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n<p>We had a lot of time to interact during Free Choice (with indoor recess all week) and work on play skills.<\/p>\n<p>Have a good weekend!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News and Information No School November 26th-November 28th, Thanksgiving Recess November Reward Party for Good Behavior Tuesday, December 2nd We are watching a short movie and you may bring your favorite \u201cjunkie snack\u201d Winter Clothes\/ Boots Winter has come early!\u00a0 Thank you for dressing your student so warm!\u00a0 Please remember to pack tennis shoes if [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":240,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/240"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/ruselink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}