Polar Express Pajama Party Monday, December 21st.
Reminder to turn in your Polar Express Permission Slips by Friday, December 19th.
Notes:
If you choose to donate hot cocoa, please send it in by Friday.
Just a Reminder:
CA Policy States:
Students will be taken outside for recess every day, weather permitting, above zero degrees Fahrenheit wind chill. When there is visible snow on the ground, snow pants, boots, hat, and mittens are required. Students who fail to bring adequate winter attire will be permitted to borrow gear from the lost and found. If there are no items available, they will be allowed a one-time pass to remain indoors, and a parent phone call will be made to provide the proper attire for the following day. Further unpreparedness will result in the student attending recess outdoors.
November through April we require that all students bring full winter gear (jackets, snow pants, boots, hat, and mittens).
LITERATURE
Don't Wake the Bear
Hibernation
Focus: Main Idea and Details
MATH
During the months of November and December students will work on the following skills:
· numbers 0-20 (ordering, identifying, representing, and writing)
· tally marks
· matching and sorting: shapes
· reviewing 2 -dimensional shapes
· patterns :ABC and ABB
· comparing, ordering, and measuring using non-standard units of measurement and with a ruler in inches
Throughout the year students will explore math through open-ended- problem solving journals, math stations, ipads/ipods, IXL, rekenreks, and a variety of math manipulatives.
HANDWRITING/WRITING
We are working on thinking like writers and getting our ideas on paper using pictures and words.
CORE KNOWLEDGE
Farms - Students will be able to explain what a farm is and why farms are important; identify animals, machinery, tools and buildings found on a farm. Students will also be able to identify the needs of animals and sequence the seasonal rhythm of planting, growing, and harvesting.
