Hi Famiies! Here is the agenda for this week:

Reading - The children should be done with their fantasies and will be working on a setting project in response to their stories.

Science/Language Arts - We will begin our Owl unit this week! We will be reading Owls in the Family by Farley Mowatt.  It is a delightful tale about a boy who adopts 2 baby owls.  It is based on a true story.  Not only is the book entertaining, but it teaches a lot of facts about owls and nature.  The children will have a comprehension check after each chapter. We will practice the skills of predicting, visualizing, and inferring, as well as defining the story elements. 

English - Prepositions and Possessives

Spelling - List 18, 18.5 is the enriched list

Social Studies - We will be working on Northeast Region Posters.  The children should come home with notes on the American Revolution.  They have a test on Friday. 

Math - Large Number Multiplication

I was gone for 3 days last week with sick children.  We will be playing catch up this week.  :)

We have some important events coming up in December that I need your help with. I am trying to give advanced notice for working parents and parents with small children at home just in case you might can help.

On Wednesday, December 12, we will be making Gingerbread Houses.  I will be sending home a letter the first week of December requesting supplies.  I need some parent volunteers to help set up and clean up in the cafeteria that day.  We will be making them at 1:30.  I need parents to come around 1:15.  If you can help, please fill out the form that will be going home on Tuesday.

Our Polar PJ Day will either by Wednesday, December 19th or Thursday, December 20th. (It depends on when the Christmas Party is. Thursday is my first choice, but if the Christmas Party is that day like it has been in the past, then we will have it on Wednesday.)  We will begin with learning/craft stations at 11:30 and start the movie, Polar Express around 1:00.  I will be serving hot cocoa and s'mores at movie time.  I need parent volunteers to help run the learning stations, and then to help with hot cocoa and s'mores. If you can help with this day, please sign the form that will be going home on Tuesday. 

Thanks in advance for all that can help!!

I wanted to ask if your child can bring a set of watercolor paints.  My paints have been used by over 100 children in the past 5 years and they are getting depleted in certain colors.  It would help tremendously for future art projects, particularly one coming up this Friday, if each child had their very own set.  I know this is short notice, sorry.  The best sets are made by Prang or Crayola.  You can find them at Walmart, KMart, or Staples.  Those that cannot bring one, can still use my older sets of course.  I just thought the children would enjoy having a brand new one for themselves.

Quote for the week: When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all. Theodore Roosevelt