The Week of November 22nd

                               Room 21 Newsletter

Thank you to all that have signed up to bring items for the Harvest Feast! We are still in need of a few items. Follow this link for a list of the needed items: Harvest Feast Please send in all items by Monday morning as we begin feast preparations the day before the feast. Our Harvest Feast is a classroom community building opportunity in which students enjoy a meal that they have prepared, as a class. We will have events throughout the year where parents are welcome such as Donuts with Dads in February and Muffins with Moms in May.  

PTA Read-A-Thon is well underway! You should have received information last week from your child. Please help us with our goal of 100% participation! Even $1 raised counts as participation. Proceeds this year will go towards readers theater that will be housed in the media center for all to use. Readers theater provides fluency practice for students and is also always enjoyed by the students! The top class that raises the most money gets a $50 gift card for classroom materials! Also, the top two classes get entered into a drawing for a class party!

2nd and 3rd grade students should be using the Compass Learning website at home if they have access to the internet. This website uses Common Core strategies to help students practice the material they are learning at school. Usernames and passwords were sent home with 2nd and 3rd graders. If you did not receive them please send me an email so I can get them to you. I have added the Compass Learning link to this page. It is to the right of this post under the the Important Links tab.

Dates to Remember:

11/25-29  NO SCHOOL Thanksgiving Holiday

12/1         Parent Education-Montessori Language and Literacy

12/4         MESS Holiday Party- fundraiser for teacher Montessori training

12/7-11    Book Fair

12/9        Field Trip- Entire Class

12/10       PTA Holiday Bake Sale & Student Festival of Lights

12/15       3rd Grade Field Trip

12/16       1st and 2nd Grade Field Trip

12/18       Bobcat Dads Reading Day (Holiday Stories)

12/18       Dress Down $1- 8th Grade Bridging Ceremony Fund 

12/18       Holiday Sing-Along

12/21-1/4 Winter Break (students return on the 5th)

Upcoming HEALTHY snack weeks for 24 students: 

**We are a PEANUT FREE classroom.**  

Some suggestions for snack are: precut fruit (apples, grapes, bananas cut in half, oranges, etc.), precut vegetables with hummus for dipping, cheese and crackers, granola bars or chewies, trail mix, applesauce, hummus and crackers, yogurt or Gogurt, graham crackers…  The purpose of snack is to provide a nutritious energy booster when the students need it.  Please keep in mind the nutritional value when choosing a snack.  

           

11/23  Ms.Marianne

11/30  Laney

12/7

12/14 Dajshea

This Week's Lessons : (students continue to work on previous lessons)

Language/Reading

Writing Across the Curriculum

Writing a paragraph- Topic Sentences/Supporting Details  

Persuasive Writing

4 Square Writing

Arithmetic 

Stamp Game +x-/

Golden Beads- Dynamic Addition

Hundred Board

Rounding

Comparing Numbers

Addition with Ten Bars

Addition of Sets

Area

Multiplication- Repeated Addition/ Arrays

Geometry-

The Study of Quadrilaterals

Geometrical Solids

Science:

Our Place in the Cosmos

Backyard Biome

Weathering

Soil

Social Studies:

Historical Figures Research

Greek Architecture

Monet

Practical Life:

Meal Preparation