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The Toucan Times
December 7, 2009
 
If you have any questions please e-mail (tkirkwood@cullmancats.net) or call 
me and I will get back to you ASAP.  If you want your child to eat breakfast 
at school please make sure that he/she knows to do so or if he/she is not to 
eat make sure this is known.  Please send in lunch money on Monday in and 
envelope marked lunch money with your child’s name on the front.
•	Santa Shop December 7-11th.  We will shop during our library time on 
Monday, December 7th.  We go to library at 10:25.  Please send any money in 
and envelope with your child’s name on the front.
•	Space Shuttle demonstration December 8th.
•	Christmas party, Friday December 18th at 9:30.
Phonics: 
We will review the following sounds /ou/ as in out, /ow/ as in cow, /y/ as a 
vowel and /igh/ as in light. 
Sight Words: 
always, day, become (s), everything, nothing, stays, things
Spelling Words: 
my, by, try, any, body, fly, cry, lucky, silly, puppy
Bonus – things, always
Spelling Homework Schedule:
Monday – Write each word 5 times each.
Tuesday – Chose 5 words and put them in ABC order and use the 5 words in a 
sentence.
Wednesday- Use the other words in ABC order and use them in a sentence.
Thursday – Take a practice test.
Reading:
  We will cover identifying characters, setting, problems and solutions, 
retelling using beginning, middle and end, compare and contrast, predictions, 
y as a vowel.  This story should be read Monday night each night after there 
will be a different story coming home that will contain the same skills 
covered as in the story, read An Egg Is an Egg.  The skills for the story are 
previewing and comparing and contrasting.  Books to be used are Caps for 
Sale , Seven Blind Mice and The Man Who Walked Between The Two Towers.
Math:
  We use Saxon math at CCPS.  This program builds on concepts and reviews 
daily.  We will complete hands on lessons in class each day and complete side 
A of the math worksheet together in class.  Your child will complete side B 
as homework each night and return the sheet back to me the following day.  
Math skills this week are; addition number sentences, numbers 53-56, adding 2 
to an even number, adding 2 to an odd number, covering a design and recording 
the pattern blocks.
  *I will not send home the graded homework papers.
Science/Social Studies:
Christmas Around the World

Test Grades:
Honey Bees ______	Spelling ______  	Math _______	 Facts _______

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