Congratulations to Yessenia!!  She was selected as our Honesty Character Kid! She will enjoy lunch and games with Mr. Steele and Dr. Musick, as well as be honored at our awards assembly on Monday. Way to go!!

A huge thanks to all that contributed to our annual Food Drive. I'm always amazed at the generosity of our families! Thanks to your contributions, our class collected more items than any other class in the school, which the PTA will be rewarding with ice cream treats on Monday afternoon. Thank you!!

On Tuesday, we will spend part of the morning enjoying hot chocolate while wrapping gifts and writing Christmas letters to our families.  We will also enjoy lunch together in the classroom for our holiday celebration.

A reminder that homework is due on Tuesday.  We will also be taking our spelling test on Tuesday, due to the winter break.

Tuesday is CRAZY SOCK DAY.  Wear your silliest and craziest socks to school!

Our school has an opportunity to earn $5000 if we have the highest number of hours logged into the MyOn online reading program over break.  We are competing with other schools in the Tri-town area and this would be such a great opportunity for our school, while encouraging all of our students to read more.  

Over break, we are sending home a reading and math log for students.  It is our hope to help keep them in the routine of reading and practicing math facts. Students that complete the ENTIRE log for both sections will get to eat in the classroom and enjoy a treat with their friends and teacher when we return in January. Keep reading!!!   



What are we learning this week?

Reading: After break we will be starting Theme 6,  Many States, One Country.   Our focus will be on the Fix-Up Strategies for reading, and our new vocabulary words will be reside, route, journey, state, terrain, and boundary.

Writing: Our writing focus in January will be shifting to Authors as Mentors.  We will be looking at the strategies various authors use in their own writing in order to inspire and improve our own pieces.

Math: We will be giving students a pretest before we begin our new unit on double digit addition.   Based on this assessment information, we will again be regrouping students for this larger unit, helping to ensure that all students’ needs are being met appropriately.  

Science: After break, we will continue our physical science unit studying balance and motion.  We are currently working with different shapes and strategies to see how weights and counterweights effect balance.   

Social Studies: We are working on Geography as we learn to use a compass rose, map keys and legends to read and create maps.

Word Study/Spelling: This TUESDAY's spelling test will be on the 20 NO EXCUSE WORDS.    We will take a new pretest on Wednesday, January 9th to determine our new words and a new homework packet will come home too.  

Weekly Peek...

Monday:  PE, Awards Assembly @ 2:00
Tuesday: Music, homework due, spelling test, Crazy Sock Day

WINTER BREAK-WINTER BREAK

Thursday (1/3/13): Art
Friday: PE, Happy Birthday Anthony!

Saturday: Happy Birthday Brandon!


Upcoming Events:
Winter break:  Dec. 19th - January 2nd (Kids return on Thursday, January 3rd)

Congratulations to Alaina, Brandon and Sidney!! They all have art on display at the Carbon Valley Library in Firestone during the month of December.

Please make sure you and your child have discussed his/her report card that came home on Friday. All of the paperwork is yours to keep. The empty envelope needs to be signed and returned no later than Wednesday.

Our Holiday Shop will be here this week!! If your child would like to purchase gifts from the shop, we will be shopping on Wednesday. Students just need to bring in the envelope filled out with their information and the money that they are going to spend.

This week we will be working closely with our 5th grade buddies. On Monday, our class will be spending the day with Mrs. Wickett’s 5th grade class, and they will spend the day with us on Wednesday. This will allow both teachers to conduct mid-year reading assessments.

What are we learning this week?

Reading: We are wrapping up our learning about Historical Fiction genres and the reading strategy Making Inferences as we finish our theme Where People Live and take theme test 5.

Writing: Our writing focus is writing for readers, as we work to ensure that all writing is accurate in capitalization, punctuation and spelling.

Math: We are continuing our short unit on measurement. Students are working on using centimeters and inches to accurately measure lengths as well as perimeters of shapes. We will be taking our unit test on Friday. When we return from break we will be moving onto double digit addition.

Science: We have begun our physical science unit studying balance and motion. We are working with different shapes and strategies to see how weights and counterweights effect balance.

Social Studies: Students are working on our current character trait of Honesty.

Word Study/Spelling: This Wednesday's spelling test will be on words with the AL vowel pattern (talk, always). Our new focus will be a review of 20 No Excuse Words that we have worked on the past several months. We chose the words that students continue to struggle with the most. This test will be on Tuesday, December 18th.



Weekly Peek...

Monday: Buddy Day with Mrs. Wickett's Class
Tuesday: Art, Happy Birthday Julian!
Wednesday: PE, Library, Computer, Holiday Shop
Thursday: Music
Friday: Art



Upcoming Events:
Winter break: Dec. 19th - January 2nd

Reminder: Holiday book orders are DUE MONDAY! If you would like to keep your purchase(s) secret, please let me know!

We are nearing the end of our annual canned food drive. We appreciate all the continued support as we work to collect items for our local families in need.

What are we learning this week?

Reading: We are learning about Historical Fiction genres and the reading strategy Making Inferences as we continue our theme Where People Live. Our vocabulary words will be crossing, rural, build, purpose, social, and urban.

Writing: Our writing focus is writing for readers, as we work to ensure that all writing is accurate in capitalization, punctuation and spelling.

Math: We have begun a short unit on measurement. Students are working on using centimeters and inches to accurately measure lengths as well as perimeters of shapes.

Science: With our solar system research complete, we will begin our physical science unit of Balance and Motion.

Social Studies: Students are working on our current character trait of Honesty.

Word Study/Spelling: This Wednesday's spelling test will be on words with the AU and AW vowel patterns. Our new focus of words with the AL vowel pattern (talk, always) will begin on Wednesday.

Weekly Peek...

Monday: Art
Tuesday: PE
Wednesday: Late Start (11:10), Library, Computer
Thursday: Art
Friday: PE



Upcoming Events:
Holiday Shop: December 12th