Week of December 4, 2017

Please Note

- The second trimester begins today. Report cards will be sent home sometime next week.

- The permission slip for our bowling field trip will be sent home today. Please return the permission form and payment ($20 cash/check) by Monday, December 11. I will need 5 chaperones to meet us at Sproul Lanes from 9:30 - 11:30. If you would like to be in the drawing please email me by this Wednesday. Thanks!

- We will be going to Santa's Secret Shop on Tuesday at 1:30pm. Please send your child's envelope in by Tuesday marked with who they are buying for and approximately how much to spend on each person. If you would like to come in and help your child shop that is fine!

- We will have a reading and spelling test on the story "At Home in the Ocean" on Thursday this week.

- There is no school on Friday.

- Please ask your child to check their art supplies and pencil cases. Many kids are in need of new markers, pencils,  etc. These items might make great stocking stuffers!

- A reminder that next Wednesday, December 13th is the K-4 Christmas Concert. It begins at 7:00pm in the Church. Students are to wear their "Christmas" best and you are asked to drop them off at the Parish Center at 6:30pm.

Homework

Monday

Complete Letter to Santa

Practice Sight and Spelling Words

Religion:  Complete Advent paper

Math - page 38

Tuesday

Reading: page 159 and 162

Practice Sight and Spelling Words

Math: page 35

Wednesday

Reading: Read and discuss At Home in the Ocean

Practice Sight and Spelling Words for tests tomorrow

Math: page 36

Our Week

Religion

We will continue Chapter 13 this week and learn about the season of Advent.

Reading

Story: "At Home in the Ocean"

Target Skill: Author's Purpose (Persuade, inform, entertain)

Phonics Skill: Long A, digraph -th, endings (ed, ing, s, es)

Grammar: Proper Nouns

Sight Words: blue, cold, far, little, live, their, water, where, here, me, my, who

Spelling Words: that, them, then, with, this, bath, thick, think

Math

We will continue our unit on subtraction this week. We will practice using a number line and also with 10 frames. We will learn how to check subtraction by using addition.