Welcome back! I Hope you all had a peaceful and relaxing time with your family and friends. I have missed all my students and I am ready for a great week!
Early Release Day
Wednesday, Dec 3rd is an Early Release Day. Dismissal is at 12:45
PTA Spirit Night at Newks starting at 5:00 p.m.
IMPORTANT REMINDERS
Monday: Reading homework comes home in the homework bags. Reading homework is due back on Friday.
Tuesday: Tuesday folders come home. Please return signed Tuesday folders on Wednesday morning. Math Homework will be in the Tuesday folder.
Wednesday: Library Day! All library books are due by Wednesday morning at 8:00.
Friday: Homework is due.
Here is what we will be doing this week:
READING and WRITING
With the holidays approaching, for the next several weeks we will be learning about many different winter celebrations around the world. We will read about the customs and traditions in different countries and record some facts about their traditions.
MATH
We will continue our double addition strategies and move on to subtraction. Subtraction names a missing part by taking away, removing or comparing to find a difference. We will use concrete and pictorial models including ten-frames, math racks, Base Ten blocks ad other manipulatives to represent word problem situations involving separating or comparing sets of whole numbers up to 20 where the unknown may be start, change, or result for joining and separating problems.
SCIENCE
This week in science we will learn about force and movement. Energy causes force and force causes motion/movement. Force can be defined as a "push" or a "pull" which causes objects to move in different ways such as straight line, zigzag, up and down, side to side, round and round and slow. We will also explore magnets. Magnets can pull or push certain objects. The push and pull caused by magnets is also a force.