Reminders…

Please remember to send shoes for your child to change into for the classroom!

Our Holiday program will be Tuesday 12/4 at Fellowship Church.  A lot of hard work by the students and Ms. Baker has gone into this program and we hope you enjoy it!

• Please remember to keep gifts for our class gift exchange as close to $5.00 as you can. Gifts are due some time the week of 12/10. Thank you!

• Our Christmas party will be Thursday, 12/20 from 12:00 to 1:00. You are very welcome to stop in if you would like.

• Please send all outdoor gear to school with your child as winter has arrived.  Please label all of their belongings.

Reading  

This week in readers workshop we have focused on getting to know the characters in our books.  We spent time reading Frog and Toad books and discussing the characters likes and dislikes. We also talked about what kind of person the characters are and how their feelings can change from the beginning to the end of the story.

 Math

We have just started  new unit in math.  Our Unit 4 in math will focus on tens and teen numbers, place value to 100, and strategies for adding larger numbers.  We will practice counting groups of tens.

We will study the teen numbers (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19) and noticed that every teen number has a 10 hiding inside along with some extra ones.

Writing   

We have just started a new unit writing persuasive letters.  We will focus on stating our opinion to the appropriate audience, coming up with the best reasons to support our opinion, and making sure we have  a closing for our letters.