Week of Dec. 10

Upcoming Events:

JDec. 18 K-1 Music Concert at 7pm at Emmetsburg High School auditorium.  Students need to arrive by 6:30.  (More information to come.)

J Dec. 21 Early Out (1 hr.)

Notes:

JThank you to parents who have already provided items for our gingerbread houses. 

JNow that the weather is cold please send your child with hats and gloves every day.  We go outside unless it is below 0.  When it does snow and you send snow pants and boots please write your child’s name in them. 

JWe have spent a lot of this week assessing for 2^nd quarter.  I have been very pleased at the progress students have made.

Things to Work on:

JHere are some reading strategies to help your child when they struggle on a word: look at the pictures, flip the vowel sound, chunk the word into parts that you know, and s-t-r-e-t-c-h it out. 

What we have been up to:

Reading: We read books/ stories about different kids around the world and how they play.  This week we focused on comparing and contrasting kids around the world. 

Math: This week in math we made a 100 grid and talked about the various patterns that we see.  We used the patterns to help us with money and adding large numbers.

Science/ Social Studies: We continued our study on maps and globes.  We learned about various landforms and the cardinal directions.  We continued making My World book with my house and my town.  Vocabulary words that we learned last week and this week are: ocean, Earth, globe, continent, border, country, state, location, valley, plain, neighborhood, farm, shelter, and transportation.