Mrs.Julie's Class

Week of December 7, 2009

Our class had a great time at the Winter Carnival. We appreciate all the donations for our toy drive. Also a huge thanks to the parent volunteers that helped organize the carnival!!

The children love their stockings and are excited about all the treats they have so far!! Thank you for all the wonderful things you've sent. We will continue to fill the stockings with items until they are sent home on the 18th.

Our top Accelerated Reader point earners are..

25 point club Carter

20 point club Jada

15 POINT CLUB Devonte

10 POint club

5 point club Hannia, Makiyah, Caleb, Tyler S., Alisha, Sarah L., Shae

When reading with your child ask them the BIG FIVE QUESTIONS.......

1. Who is the story about? (characters)

2. Where does the story take place? (setting)

3. What is the problem in the story?

4. How is the problem solved?

5. What happens at the very end of the story?

They answer these five questions every day when reading stories. This is a good way to practice comprehension.

Reading

-We will spend this week reviewing skills for our unit 3 test, which will be given next Monday and Tuesday. The vocabulary and spelling tests will be this Friday, December 11.

MATH

- counting pennies and dimes

- telling time to the hour

- math story problems

- counting by 5's and 10's

- write numbers to 100.

- what number comes before and after ( ___ 92 ____)

- place value (tens and ones) 96 is 9 tens and 6 ones

- adding zero and one (45+0= __ 45+1= __) We'll continue with timed strips.

- adding doubles thru 5 (0+0=, 1+1=, 2+2=, 3+3=, 4+4=, 5+5=)

**Once students are able to complete adding zero and one in ONE MINUTE with one hundred percent correct, they will begin to be timed on their doubles facts.

Scholastic Book Orders....ONLINE!!!

Next time I send home a Scholastic book order, you will have the option of ordering online. We get free books for our class with every online order. Go to our LINKS page and scroll down to the bottom of the page and click on Scholastic Book Order.

Username is juliemeyer

Password is caywood.

If you ever have any questions, please feel free to contact me at 968-8457 ext. 480 or meyerj@caywood.org.