Week of Dec. 17th

This is a follow-up to my email regarding this week.

As you already know, there is no homework this week, yeah!  We will be reviewing some things, introducing a few new activities, and working away on our planner.  This morning we worked on an activity and as we worked on it, the kids came up with things to add to it.  Gotta love that they take the ownership!!!

Tomorrow is Pajama Day.  If your child is not comfortable wearing PJs all day please send a change of clothes.  We talked about it this afternoon :)

We do have several extra activities planned this week but we are really trying to keep learning all the way through Friday.  I can't believe the semester is over already, it has flown by!

Thank you for all the snacks for Field Day, we enjoyed some in between events and the rest during lunch in our classroom.  Enjoy some pictures.

 On our way to the Parade of Classes, our banner turned out AWESOME!!!

 The Twins Race was hilarious!  Pammy and Fahad

 Charleston and Reese

 Isabel and Leo

 The Hula Hoop Race is harder than it looks!  Samantha and Cindy

 Jackson and Charlie

 Alex and Ethan

 The Frog Race was also a lot of work, they had to touch the ground with their hands at every jump!

 We wrapped up our day with an Art a la Carte lesson by Mr. Friesen

Student-led Conferences on Wednesday, December 5th from 3:00-4:30, in 30 minute blocks

If you are unable to come on Wednesday please let me know and we can arrange an alternate day/time.  This is a wonderful opportunity to meet with your child!  The children lead the conference and share goals and work from our completed planners.

Language Arts: this week we will focus on common nouns (teacher, park, ball, snake). We will read A Big Fish for Max.  The genre is Animal Fantasy. The spelling pattern this week is digraphs sh/th and the vowel sound in ball.

Math: we will work on numbers from 11-20 and the hundred chart.

Science: magnetism, soil, and rocks will be our focus over the next weeks.

LDC: we will have a one week rotation this time around

Getting started on the class creation for the Bash!

Practicing math facts with dominoes (part/part/whole)

Planner title: Where We Are in Time and Place

The central idea of our current planner is that a universal pictorial language connects people around the world.  The lines of inquiry are: 1) communicating with symbols, pictures, and gestures; 2) geography and place; and 3) symbols and patterns and problem solving in math.

The children created the US flag, a national symbol, and wrote about what each part of the flag represents.

Our 'new' student :)  Ainsley, Jackson's little sister

 We went on a 'Signs Hunt' around the school

Some signs were not inside so we went on a 'mini-field trip'

 

Art a la Carte: Mr. and Mrs. Loffredo led this month's lesson!