Specials Schedule this week:
December 14-18, 2009
We will have P.E. on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday!
Peek at the Week:
Reading: We will be reading Christmas stories as we talk about characterization, story elements,
making connections and predictions as well as visualizing.
Writing: The students will finish their own version of the story Twas the Night Before Christmas.
Spelling: No spelling this week! We will play with high frequency words and Christmas words in class.
Math: We will review for our Math Benchmark, our benchmark on Tuesday, and then do some mental
math with 2 digit numbers such as making a ten and finding compatible numbers to add.
Science: Students are finishing their habitat research and will share with the class. Then we will use
our Science time to have some holiday fun!
Important Information:
**Tuesday: We will take a math benchmark covering everything we have learned this year!
**Tuesday: Mrs. Moffitt's class will spend the afternoon with us making reindeer and watching
Rudolph.
**Wednesday: Students will spend the afternoon with Mrs. Moffitt's class making beaded ornaments
and having more Christmas fun.
**Thursday: Our Party is from 1:30-2:30. We will make gingerbread houses in the morning!
**Friday: Night Before Christmas Celebration: Students wear your pajamas!
Word of the Week: Gratitude
Manner of the Week: Remember to say "thank you!"
No Library this Friday!
I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Enjoy the break! I hope you get to
enjoy one of the BEST things about Christmas: spending lots of quality time relaxing with family and
loved ones. I will be enjoying my family, but also missing the students as well. They, too, are like
my family and I hope all their Christmas dreams come true!
Remember: Good, better, best; Never let it rest, until your good is better
and your better is BEST!