29 November - 5 December 2010
Welcome back after a longer Thanksgiving Break. Many of you traveled, most enjoyed Thanksgiving dinner with family and/or friends, and we're back at work for our last 13 days of school before winter break begins.
Please mark your calendar for the following dates:
13 December: Monday, No School- Teacher Work Day
15 December: 1st Grade Holiday Program-Wenesday
The Little Bell Who Could Not Ring
Performances: IN School-1:30 p.m. AES MPR
AFTER School-6:00 p.m. AES MPR
Winter Break Dates: 18 December through 2 January
First School Day of the New Year: Monday, 3 January
For our Holiday Program on Wednesday the 15th, we're asking for red, green, black and white as clothing colors. Jeans will work just fine, too, if that's what you like the best. It is a very nice, shorter performance, and I'm certain you've heard some of the lyrics at home already!
Reading Skills:
Story: Unit 2 The Big Circle
Genre: Fiction
Comprehension Skill: Sequencing
Comprehension Strategy: Monitor/Fix Up
Study Skill: Periodical/Newsletter
Spelling/Phonics: Long o cvcE & contractions with not, am and will
Language Vocabulary: classify/categorize
Grammar: Days, Months, and Holidays
Writing: Advice!!
Mathematics:
SUBTRACTION FACTS and Fact Families
We're continuing work in Reading with our new story of the week: The Big Circle, a fictional story about dinosaurs. We've also got a special project planned with our Reading and Math Buddies 3rd Grade class from Mrs. DiLorenzo.
I'm asking you to please step-up the homework commitment from parents. Most of the links are not begin utilized to their fullest extent. Please set a time aside each night for your child to read, and/or complete 30 minutes of time with the links provided on this site.
Please, please take note of this request. Practice makes perfect and we'll have even higher expectations of your student when they return in the new year.
Have a great week.
Visit those links, and READ, READ, and READ some more.
Mrs. Petty
