Hi Parents,

Reading
This week will be a review of several of the skills we have learned during the semester. We will revisit ABC order, parts of speech and inferences, all with a wintery theme!

Writing
Next week we will be writing all about what would happen if we were inside a snowglobe! We will also think about how we feel about winter and why it is special to us and put those warm fuzzy feelings into a “mug” writing activity.

Spelling
No spelling this week! It will start again in January.

Math
We’re continuing our unit on patterns this week. Teachers will play a game with their students called “What's My Pattern?” and students will have to guess the fun patterns she creates. We’ll create a patterns by clothes, color, stripes, shorts, body positions (sit, stand, sit, stand) and other fun creative ways. Students will be asked how the pattern was created and what would come next in the pattern? This week we will also discuss if something is a real pattern? Why? Why not? Throughout the week, students will have the opportunity to create patterns of their own. We’re going to learn about building growing patterns with addition and subtraction, applying rules to determine output numbers and identifying the rules to a pattern.

Social Studies:
We will observe the attributes of rocks and sort them into categories. We will discuss examples and “non-examples” of these categories. We will also complete a rock report and share our discoveries with the class.

Reminders:
No life journals this week!
No spelling this week!
Library day is Wednesday.
Holiday Party: December 19th
Winter Break: Dec. 21st-Jan. 6th
School resumes on January 7th