Thursday, November 20, 2014

Hello All!  
I hope you are staying warm in this cold and snowy weather we’re having right now!   The kiddos sure are enjoying their time outside to play in it though! With the weather in mind, please be sure that your child has ALL necessary outside clothing to play in the snow each day.  Please also remember to send shoes to school so they don’t have to clomp around in their boots all day.  J

Here are a few notes from the Dates to Remember section:
Our Elementary Christmas program will be Monday, December 15.  Students should arrive at 6:40, and the program begins at 7.  Please have your child dressed in their nicest clothes. 

2nd Grade Santa’s Workshop will be on Tuesday, December 16.  The 2nd grade classes will be rotating to each of the three classrooms to create special Christmas gifts and activities to take home to their families.  There will be more information coming. 

Our Classroom Christmas Party will be on Thursday, December 18.  We ask that each child takes in a $3-$5 gift.  The girls should bring a gift for a girl, and the boys a gift for a boy.  Please be mindful of the dollar amount of the gift you purchase.  If the gift costs $5.50, please ask your child to choose something else.  Going above or below the range can lead to hurt feelings in during the party.  Thank you for your help!!

There will be more information on school and classroom Christmas events coming home when all of the details get worked out.  Please be looking for these notes, and I’ll keep you posted here as well. 

Reading:
Our vocabulary words for this week are: habitat, nature, escape, journey, buried, peeks, restless, and spies.  We practice these words daily in many different ways.  Please take a moment to review with your child what they may have learned about these words.  Our test will be next week Wednesday, November 26.

A new spelling list will be coming home with your child on Monday.  Please review these words with your child daily.  The test will be next week Wednesday, November 26.

We will be discussing the non-fiction genre of expository text again this week.  Our Essential Question is: What are features of different animal habitats? Your child will be excited to share what he or she has learned about these habitats.

Math:
This week we will be continuing our focus on strategies to help us learn and memorize our subtraction facts as well as strategies to help us solve subtraction number stories.   
We are working hard on our Rocket Math!  This is to help us memorize our addition facts and see how many we can answer in 1 minute.  The students are really enjoying it!

Thank you again for all of your love and support for your children!  I've spoken with many of you this week on various concerns, and I welcome them all.  I appreciate you working as a team with me and with our school to make your child's education as successful as possible!

Mrs. Rozeveld