Week of December 2, 2019

Thank you so much for all of the purchases made for our classroom wish list items.  Check out these new auditory feedback reading phones I was able to get through Amazon.  We are looking forward to starting our Tower Garden after Christmas so I will be purchasing supplies for that soon, too.  The new whiteboards have arrived and are waiting to be installed.  I really appreciate all of your generosity and classroom support!

Please Note

The next three weeks are busy and full of holiday fun!  Here are the reminders for this week:

- Please help your child fill out the letter that we will be sending to Santa at the end of the week. Please make sure their handwriting is neat. This is due on Thursday. Thanks for your help.

- We will have a reading and spelling test on the story At Home in the Ocean on Wednesday.

- We will have a subtraction test on Friday this week.  It will only be basic subtraction, subtraction with a number line, and subtraction patterns.  The rest of the subtraction skills will be assessed the week of the 19th.

- We will be going on our bowling field trip with our 8th grade buddies at Sproul Lanes on Friday, December 20th. We will need 4 chaperones (no siblings please). Chaperones will meet us at the bowling alley at 9:30.  We will be finished by 11:30.  If you would like to be in the drawing please email me and let me know. You must have all of your clearances up to date. A pizza lunch will be provided back at school that day so you do not have to order hot lunch for your child on the 21st.

- Next Wednesday, December 11th 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.

- We will be going to Santa's Secret Shop NEXT Thursday at 1:30. Information will be sent home this week.  You are welcome to meet us there and help your child shop.

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

- The first trimester ends this Friday. Report cards will be sent home on the 17th.

Please let me know if you have any questions.  Thanks!

Homework

Monday
Reading: page 160
Begin Letter to Santa
Practice words and read
Math: page 37

Tuesday
Read At Home in the Ocean.
Practice words for test
Math: 39

Wednesday
Reading: page 166
Practice words and read
Math: worksheet
Letter to Santa due tomorrow

Thursday
Reading - 165
Copy new spelling words one time
Practice words and read
Math: worksheet

Our Week

Religion
We will discuss the season of Advent.
We will start Chapter 8 - "Jesus Had Many Followers."

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, this, thick, think, bath, with

Math
We will continue our unit on subtraction this week. We will learn how to check subtraction by using addition. We will also start working with Fact Families. There will be a short quiz on Friday on basic subtraction, subtraction with a number line, and subtraction patterns.