Ms. Shelly's News December 10

We got so much accomplished this week! The students worked hard to "show what you know" on each of the assessments. This week we will complete some holiday activities:

• Our class party will be Friday Dec. 14 from 1:20-2:15
• You may attend the party if you are not volunteer trained, but you must interact with your own child.
• Please do not take pictures of any students without a parent being present to ask for permission. Some parents do not wish for their child to be photographed.

• Continue to practice sight words every night for 5-10 minutes.
• Practice counting to 100 by 1's and 10's.
• Read a bedtime story together and talk about the parts of a book (front/back cover, title page, author/illustrator) and the parts of a story (characters, setting, problem, solution).

Week in Review:

Reading: We are reviewing all sight words from quarter 2 and assessing students on their current sight word list. We read and compared different versions of the Gingerbread Man stories. Be sure to ask your student which one was their favorite.

Math: We have been continuing to practice place value for the ones and tens place by composing and decomposing teen numbers and beyond.  We have been working on taking away numbers with CGI.

Science: We experimented with sink and float this week.  The students and I tried out different objects and made predictions on if it would sink or float.  We recorded our observations.  We completed a STEM challenge to help the Gingerbread Man cross the river.  We used our background knowledge to choose materials to build a boat and keep the Gingerbread Man dry and sail him away from the others chasing him!

Peek at the Week: 

We will be assessing standards for report cards and working on some fun holiday activities.

We will meet up with our Rocket Buddies later this week for a fun activity.  Shhh! It's a surprise!

Star Student: No Star student this week

Reminders and Announcements:

• December 14 - Holiday Party @ 1:20
• December 17- January 2- Winter break (no school)
• January 3 - Students return to school
• January 14 - iMom breakfast
• January 21 - MLK Jr. Day  (no school)
• February 8 - Father/Daughter dance 5:30- 7:30
• February 11 - iMom breakfast