Week of December 14-18, 2009 *Permission slips for the field trip to Wasabi’s restaurant were sent home last week. We will go to Wasabi’s on Thursday. This trip coincides with the story “How My Parents Learned to Eat.” If you haven’t already done so, please return the slip and field trip cost to school as soon on Monday so that we can notify the restaurant of our meal choices. Unfortunately, there isn’t enough space in the restaurant to allow parents to attend this trip. There will be field trips in the spring that parents will be allowed to attend. * School will dismiss early on December 18th for Christmas break. I will let you know the dismissal time as soon as I hear the “official” word. *December 20 book sheets will be due after Christmas break. Our spelling words this week are: green, red, blue, purple, pink, black, orange, white, yellow, and tan Our sentence this week: We will eat lunch in Knoxville. Bonus word for this week: Rogersville, Tennessee 37857; restaurant, rice, shrimp *Reading vocabulary words for this week: both, chopsticks, great, uncle, utensils, bowed, fork, marry, ordered, waiter *Math skills covered this week: ordering numbers; identifying congruent shapes; symmetry; identifying numbers as being odd or even; graphing skills; measuring in cups and ounces;counting and writing by 2’s, 3’s, 4’s, 5’s, 6’s and 10’s, counting money; using addition to check subtraction problems *These children need to bring 16 snacks this week: Dylan, Brady, Mallie, Chloe, Parker (Week of January 4th: Hunter, Laura Grace, YoonSeo, Micah, Jesse, Celeste) Thank you so much for all your help and support. Have a great week!