Newsletter - 12/15/17

December 15, 2017 Dear Parents and Guardians, Thank you for sending in the appropriate clothes for your child to wear outside for recess fun in the snow. There will be NO math or spelling homework next week! We will resume the homework in the New Year! Enjoy reading with your child this week!! In the Classroom In Writer’s Workshop, the kids came up their list for Santa and wrote a nice, friendly letter. They also had a chance to do some creative writing with a fun writing activity called Winter-Roll A-Story. With a roll of the dice, they find out who the character is, where the story takes place and the problem. Next, they write a fantastic story with the story elements from the dice roll. Each student makes up his/her own solution! They turned out great! Math – We just finished Unit 4 and kids are completing the assessment. After the holiday break we will begin Unit 5 which reviews addition and subtraction problems in the context of money and number stories. They will learn strategies for mentally adding and subtracting 10 and 100. Science – Our science exploration next week is a design and engineering task where the kids get to design and build a sled for Santa. We will test the sleds on an outdoors slide. This should be lots of fun! Have a great weekend! Mrs. Reagan Important Dates 2R Holiday party – Wednesday, 12/20 at 2:15 Thanks in advance for helping with our celebration! Holiday Vacation – Monday, December 25 – Monday, January 1, 2018 – School starts on Tuesday, January 2, 2018! Happy New Year!!