Week of Dec. 15th

Wow!  What a busy week!  Here is what is happening:

Monday:  Study guide for Midwest test is sent home

Tuesday:  Officer Friendly Presentation

Wednesday:  Midwest Test- states and capitals too!!!
                      Snow Pal Cards Due!!

Thursday:  Math Test: Practice reading and writing your numbers.

Friday:  Winter Wonderland with PTA

Have a wonderful break!!!

What a busy month December is.  Here is what is happening...

• Book orders due Thursday December 11th
• Secret Snowpals cards due December 17th (A note will be sent home regarding Snowpals)
• Social Studies test over Midwest AND the states and capitals will be December17th
• Math test over place value December 18th

This week we will be reading One Riddle One Answer.  We will focus on story plot.  We will also work on cause and effect and continue our talk with making inferences.  Don't forget to be reading at home every night.  Encourage your child to try a new genre that they may not have looked at before.  

We are reading My Name is Maria Isabel in WEX.  We are responding to literature and looking at the ways that the author communicates how the characters are feeling and their attributes.  We will continue to read and discuss this book throughout December and January.  We also wrote a 'how to' paragraph on how to build a snowman.  

In math we have focused on place value to the millions.  We will start our discussion of decimals this week.  I encourage everyone after completing the home links to read all of the numbers aloud that were used.  Part of their test will be to read numbers aloud and write numbers that they hear correctly for both whole numbers and decimals.