Friday December 15th

Important Information and Dates:

-return your home reading when you are ready for a new book

-library book exchange is Tuesday and Thursday each week

-check the Google Classroom for activities, resources, etc.

-last day of school before the break is Friday December 22nd, we finish at 12:00

-classes start Monday January 8th after the winter break

Our Week:

-ask your child about what has happened in our class read aloud of The Wild Robot

-Grade 2 Math students continue to work on skip counting using money (i.e. counting by 5's using nickels) and place value (representing numbers to 500 in different ways: base 10 blocks, numerals, number words, standard form and showing hundreds, tens, ones separately-5 hundreds, 3 tens, 5 ones=535)

-Grade 1 Math students are working on creating a classroom number line- 1-100 (each group got to work on part of the full number line)

-Roots of Empathy baby visit for Grade 1 students-saw how baby Mario has grown and talked about what to do when he is upset and cries

-We started new literacy groups with a continue focus on phonics, ask your child what group they are in and what they are working on

-Writing: we did another writing sample with the kids to see where they are at-10 minutes of class discussion on a topic, 10 minutes to plan using drawings and 20 minutes to write

-Inquiry (Social Studies): we continue to talk about our family communities and our school/neighborhood communities, kids are working on a portrait of their family community

Have a wonderful weekend!