Thank you to Julianne’s family for the bookfair donation.
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Friday: Breakfast Party
We’re having our first celebration of the year. Woohoo! What a fantastic job your child has done with daily work, following routines, building a strong community in our classroom, and doing their personal best. For all of this hard work, students have decided to have a breakfast celebration on Friday, December 19th. This is the same day as pajama day for the entire school. We’re going to have a nice cozy breakfast/pajama party with Mrs. Knorr’s class.
I’ve talked with students about what to bring and how it’s not necessary for everyone to bring something for this celebration. We’ll have other celebrations and students can take turns bringing in the goodies. We plan on having breakfast type foods around 9:45 a.m. If you would like to come to help out, please send me a quick email. I’ll supply Barry’s bagels, Go-gurts, and napkins. If you would like to volunteer to bring a breakfast item or to come help out, please send me a quick email with the item you would like to send in.
Some ideas of items needed: Orange juice, milk, fruit, paper plates, paper cups, plastic silverware.
If your child has food restrictions, I’ll be contacting you to discuss other options.
Take care,
Ms. Peck
Math: Last week: We worked more with estimation, learned different ways of solving multiplication problems, and the importance of place value in large numbers. We learned two methods for multiplication: Partial Products and Lattice Multiplication. This week: We will be finishing up Unit 5. We will be discussing exponential notation relating to powers of 10, rounding, and comparing large numbers. We will be having our Unit 5 test on Thursday, December 18th. Writing: Last week: We finished publishing our personal narrative by looking into what makes a cover grabbing, formatting fonts to make our writing exciting, and drawing rough drafts of our illustrations. This week: We will finish publishing our personal narratives and shift into non-fiction writing for the rest of the week. Each student is going to research a non-fiction topic and during reader’s workshop we are going to discuss naming and noticing non-fiction text features. We will plan, research, and later in the week use what we learned to write an informational piece. Social Studies: Last week we finished up Chapter 6. We discussed what we learned about population density and looked at the changes the automobile and electricity brought to the United States. This week: Students will take an open book test, open note test on chapters 5 and 6 to show what they know about the northeast region. As I do not want to start the next region right before break, we are going to be discussing conflict management. Students will be designing and acting out real life situations they could be in and how to use conflict management to solve them. Science: Last week: We finished our Nature’s Recycler’s unit and created a visual display with facts that showed what we learned through out the unit. Ironically, our bread mold experiment has not gone as planned as our bread has not really molded so we may revisit it as we return from break. This week: We are going to use this time to focus on non-fiction reading. Reading: Last week: We discussed the topic of character traits and character emotions. We looked for textual evidence to support how our character’s felt, looking at what our characters said, thought and did. We also compared and contrasted the difference between a trait and an emotion of a character. Many book clubs have been started and more will continue as we return from break. This week: In the beginning of the week, to segway into our new writing piece, we are going to discuss the purpose of non-fiction writing and the differences from fiction writing. We will name and notice text features of non-fiction writing and begin to examine the purpose of each text feature. Later on in the week, we will shift our focus back to characters in the stories we are reading and how their traits, and feelings impact the perspective of the story. |
Ms. Peck