We had a wonderful day before the holiday break!

I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday! 

Buddy Time- Stem Activities

Turkey Math

Home Toy Reward

Mark your Calendar: 

11/30 Reading Logs Due

11/30-12/3 Book Fair

12/2 Wacky Hair Day/ Ms. Calcaterra's last day

12/3 Winter Festival

12/7 Early Release Day/ Flyer Families ( wear t shirt)

12/11 Winter Musical

12/20 Last day before Winter Break , Winter Parties

12/21-1/3 Winter Break

1/4 School Resumes

Updates

Please try to send in items for Helping Hands this week! We have 54 items and would love to reach at least 100 items! 

Don't forget to sign the Musical Permission form and return ASAP! 

The class earned 50 points again for showing The 7 Habits throughout the past month! YAY!!They chose to celebrate with bringing a home toy to school. We will celebrate Tuesday, November 22nd. The toy needs to fit in their backpack. 

They really enjoyed our 'read a -loud' story that we have read over the past few days. It is titled Super Storms. They created posters about the Super Storms today! 

Mystery Reader

The students really enjoyed having Will's grandma as a Mystery Reader on Thursday! Thank you to Will's grandma for reading the fun math books!

Reminders: 

11/18 Flyer Families - Wear Flyer Family Shirt 

11/23-25 No School

12/2 Miss Calcaterra's last day

Pj Day Fun

Working in our p.j's

Caden's Guinea Pig came to visit 

Flashlight Friday- reading with a buddy. 

Fall Festival/ Updates

We had so much fun at our Fall Party! Thank you to all of the parents for making our party awesome!!

Academic Update

Reading Mini Lesson:
"How to be Super Smart about Non Fiction Books".

sneak peek
take a close look
chat about the book
make your voice sound smooth and lively

Writer's Workshop:
Pick a non fiction topic 
Be an expert
Use a teaching voice
Create a table of contents
Sketch
Write

Math:

We are finishing chapter 4 - addition strategies. They will take the post test on Thursday and the subtraction pre -test on Friday. Chapter 3- subtraction will start after the 4 day weekend. 

Science / Social Studies:

We will continue with the theme our earth/ where we live. We have learned about land forms, water sources, weather and climate and now finish up with understanding natural resources.

Stink: we just started the Stink book titled The Great Guinea Pig Express. We will have a special visitor on Friday to help us make some really great connections to the chapter book. 

No spelling words next week - no school Monday and Tuesday.