Tis the Season

Its that time of year when we are enjoying the kick off to the holiday season and enjoying one last normal week before the little bits of Christmas sprinkled here and there take over our classroom and our schedule.  I hope that you all enjoyed your Thanksgiving with friends and family.  I have heard from the kids that most of you did.  We had to get back into our routines and the first couple days of the week proved to be a bit of a challenge.  However, I am sitting at my table with an empty classroom this Friday loving the dedication these kids put in today!  Wow we had a great day.  Today was a full day with lots of fun and hard work.  We spent time with our first grade buddies, writing Christmas poems, working on writing second grade answers to questions (this definitely brought out a few giggles in the groups), decorating our room, practicing for our concert, and working our brains to the max in math with our double and triple digit addition with regrouping!!!!

I am sure some of you noticed a note about head lice coming home. Yes, it has made its way into our room, we have hopefully put a stop to it, but please be sure if you notice your child itching a lot to check it out.  Thank you to those that have dealt with it properly as I know it is no easy task to rid your poor kids and house of those little critters.

Please take note of some of the upcoming events we have going on this month.  Thank you for all you do to support your kids.  They are a great group and I look forward to wrapping up 2014 with them before we know it!

Latest Learning

Writing: Enhancing their writing with the use of adjectives and adverbs.

Science: Made Pin-wheels

Social Studies: Talking about urban, suburban, and rural communities.

Leader in Me: focusing on habit #5 seek first to understand

Comprehension Tool-kit: talking about details of pictures and making inferences

Upcoming Dates

Dec 10th- Happy Birthday Hayden
Dec 11th- Christmas Concert 7:45

Dec 18th – caring concert at 1:45

Dec 19th – watch the Night at the Museum at the Met Theater
Dec 23rd: Our Christmas party and all school sing along
Dec 23-Jan 6- Winter break