Dec. 10-14

OPERATION SNOWFLAKE:
Our class coin drive for Operation Snow Flake is still going on until Tuesday, December 11th.  The child we adopted wanted a remote control helicopter for their gift.  Next Tuesday I will take the coins to the bank to cash in and then buy the gift.  We will then wrap the gift at school together, and the kids will go with me to give it to Mrs. Vrazel so that she can give it to our anonymous child.

WRITING:
Our All About books are almost complete! The topics ranged from All About Animals to All About Video Games!  These have been so much fun, and it is great to learn about all the things your child is an expert about!
Our writing this week will be a stinky, smelly, rotten combination of adjectives, alliteration and illustrations. We are dissecting The Grinch's characteristics that made his heart so small and coming up with ways to make him grin. We will move on to illustrating the lines of The Grinch song and putting it to video. It will be quite a production!

READING:
The clown fish knowledge tree is filled with facts! The students have loved finding out facts about clown fish and their special relationship with sea anemones.  I even learned a few new facts with our research!
Daily 5 will continue along with guided reading groups this week. We will also work on how to inference and making predictions with pictures and texts and main idea by filling out fish bones and banana split sundaes! This should make us crave more for main ideas!

MATH:
We will build on our pattern knowledge and move into Input/Output tables. This will involve finding the rule from a robot, machine, patient and more to find what comes next in the pattern. Students will use vocabulary of increasing by and decreasing by to state the rule and continue the pattern until they find their answer.
A review of tables and patterns will be on Thursday and we will assess this Friday.

SOCIAL STUDIES:
Our study on historical figures will continue with our independent research project. The students selected a historical person on Friday that they wanted to learn more about. This individual study will go through the process of gathering more facts from Pebble Go and library books, writing a research report and creating a model of what that person looked like.

If you have spare fabric, buttons, string.....anything scrappy or crafty....we would love your donations! The writing and making of the models will be done in class, so all supplies will need to be at school by Tuesday.
REMINDERS:

Dec. 17 - Family Art Night

Dec. 19 - Class Holiday Party

Dec. 20 - Last Day of Fall Semester

Dec. 21- Jan.6 - No School