We are SOOOO excited in here for Santa to arrive and it is wonderful!  I love being with the kids as they anticipate his arrival and the joy and happiness that he will bring.  I hope you are enjoying these days as well.

Next week I’ll be going “off the grid” with some things. HO HO HO We’ll still have our weekly READING, WRITING, AND MATH, but we’ll be doing it different ways.  🙂

READING-We’ll finish Unit 4-FOOD.  We’ll talk about Food Traditions so you can begin that conversation this weekend.  Talk about what food traditions your family has.  Turkey for Thanksgiving, Grandma’s cheese soup for New Year’s dinner, red and green Rice Krispies treats for Santa, etc.

LETTERS-F f   G g

WORDS-Make  make  Help  help

MATH-The kids are really enjoying our time with calculators!!  WOW!  ( I found the calculators this summer at a warehouse…they were going to throw them away, needed the space.  I’ve been looking for a class set with a big screen for my little ones and came across these.  I’m so happy and the kids are having fun trying to beat me at our calculator time.)

We’ll be using the calculators and they will be in Math Word Stations.  Yesterday I taught them “Top-It.”  You can play it at home…all you need is a deck of cards, minus the Joker.  Ask your student how to play.  They should know.  I also brought out the Dominoes-I’ve got some GREAT strategists in here!  Excellent thinkers!

SCIENCE-We will begin Push and Pull.

F.Y.I….

Thursday will be our class party.  The homeroom moms have, once again, done an excellent job of contacting parents to donate certain items.  Sorry parents…the party is just for the kids. 🙁

Look for a Time Line for your child to complete during the break.  This is part of our Social Studies Unit.  I will send it on Thursday, along with December Book Reading List.

Friday will be our All-School Sing-A-Long.  The student body will meet in the gym for a sing-a-long and some students/parents will be having their hair cut to donate to Children With Hair Loss.  We have done this for many years and it is a wonderful event.  A few years ago, one of my sons-in-law was diagnosed with cancer and lost his hair during all of his treatments and radiation.  His hair has never really come back in and, although he never mentions it to us, we know it bothers him.  So, I could only imagine what hair loss might be for a child.

We will NOT be going outside for recess next week so you can leave the snow pants at home if you’d like.

Enjoy the snow!!!

Mrs. Smith