The Week of December 6

                                                Room 21 Newsletter

Time is just flying by and students are working hard in Room 21! Last week, students had lessons on Money, Quadrilaterals, Rounding, Comparing Fractions and that is just in Math! Here are some pictures that I snapped of students working with Math materials in the classroom. 

We will be attending the Musical Explorers Concert this week, so if your student hasn't returned the permission slip, please do so as soon as possible. 

The Book Fair is open 12/7-12/11 and is located in the Media Center. Students will be able to go check it out during the school day and take home wish lists for families to review. It will also be open before and after school if you would like to stop by then. The Book Fair will be open late on Thursday, 12/10 during the PTA Meeting and Festival of Lights.

Please make sure that your student gets enough sleep during these final two  weeks of school in 2015. We have begun mid-year SRI and MAP testing. Students should come to school well rested and fed in order to do their best on these benchmark tests.

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:

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.  

           

12/7

12/14 Dajshea

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

Language/Reading

Writing Across the Curriculum  

Persuasive Writing

4 Square Writing

Making Inferences

Arithmetic 

Stamp Game +x-/

Golden Beads- Dynamic Addition

Hundred Board

Rounding

Comparing Fractions

Addition with Ten Bars

Addition of Sets

Area and Perimeter of Polygons

Money

Geometry-

The Study of Quadrilaterals

Geometrical Solids

Science:

Our Place in the Cosmos

Backyard Biome

Weathering

Soil

Social Studies:

Historical Figures Research

Greek Architecture

Diwali

Practical Life:

Sweeping the Floor

Table Maintenance