We had a great first week adjusting back to school and witnessing the shenanigans of our classroom elf Zippy. He had the students make friendship chains and hung them up one night to make a classroom tree! He must have been hard at work into the wee morning hours and he fell out of the tree onto a students' desk and caused some disruption in a couple seats the following day! Silly Zippy! We also have some festive lights in class thanks to Sarah our room mom, and a few other helpers from each class.
Our Holiday Performance is coming up on December 12th. We ask that students wear nice holiday attire that evening, but understand if you'd prefer they not ruin it the day of. During the day, they can wear their Dress to Success attire. Maybe their favorite red or green collared shirt the day of to keep things festive. December 12th is also Grandparent's Day. We will begin in the Lions' Den at 10am and come back to the classroom for a little craft. Recess that day will be later than normal, so please have your kiddo eat a good breakfast that morning.
Our focus this week will be:
1. Begin reading On the Same Day in March. We will discuss how readers use text features to better comprehend tests, and identify main idea and supporting details. We will continue to discover how writers introduce and develop a topic with facts, details, and linking words.
2. Conventions: adverbs, functions of adverbs, comparative and superlative adverbs.
3. Spelling: CV/VC
radios
pain
medium
pioneer
ideas
reality
stadium
create
bead
beast
violin
piano
created
duet
giant
influenced
scientific
violinist
audience
pianist
4. Writing: Informative
Math
1. Area: irregular shapes
2. Area review and assessment
3. Begin Topic #7: represent and interpret data
4. We also continue our Fact Master multiplication tests. It is imperative students study these at home nightly for a few minutes for successful mastery of their multiplication facts.
Homework
Please remind your kiddo to write the date in their Reading Log.
Due every day: -Reading 15 minutes (put on reading log date and sign)
-Daily Fact Practice paper
Due on Friday: -Writing assigned and submitted through Moby Max
Upcoming dates to remember:
December 10th Yucaipa Christmas Parade
December 12th Winter Performance will be held at YCC-Yucaipa Christian Church
1st-2nd at 5pm, 3rd-4th at 5:45pm, 5th-6th at 6:15pm.
December 12th Grandparent's Day (More information on times to follow)
December 14th Angel Tree Presents DUE
December 15th Gingerbread Play/Winter Performance TK-Kinder (Information on times to follow)
December 16th Last Day to purchase yearbooks for $35
December 19-January 2nd Winter Break NO School
Have a great week!
Lovingly,
Mrs. Urban
