Making gingerbread cookies in the lab!

Looking ahead to the first week back in January 2015!

*Perseverance is our Moral Focus for the month of January.  

*Agendas and Take-Home Folders need to go home and back each day. Also, please sign your child's agenda each day. 

*Weekly homework packets will go home on Monday and need to be completed and returned by Friday morning.  Please double check to make sure all pages are complete before they are handed in.
*As shared at conferences, we will be moving away from using the ClassDojo App for behavior after our holiday break.  I have posted a picture of our new plan.  We will continue to use think sheets going home if there is a concern.  
*DECEMBER Book-It Calendars will be due after the holiday break.
*Looking Ahead... No School Dec. 22- Jan. 2 for our holiday vacation.  School resumes the morning of Jan. 5

MATH first week back (Jan. 5-9)
We are working in CH 4. Lessons include: Practice Grouping Ones into Tens, Adding with Groups of Tens, Practice with Tens and Ones, Use Place Value to Compare Numbers.

READING first week back (Jan. 5-9)
Amazing Words: enemy, protect, holler, bluff, extinct, crater, swamp, boisterous

**Spelling Words: home, woke, hose, stone, hope, those, joke, rose, bone, rode

Characters, Setting, Plot, Main Ideas & Details -The Big Circle

Proper Nouns- Days, Months, Holidays

EBLI Lessons

Social Studies
We will be working on a MAPPING unit after the holidays.  

Math doubles and Santa writing with our 5th grade buddies! We ❤️ them!

New Behavior Plan

INFO for Dec. 15-19

Reminders: 

*Self-Control is our Virtue for December.  

*Agendas and Take-Home Folders need to go home and back each day. Also, please sign your child's agenda each day. 
*Weekly homework packets will go home on Monday and need to be completed and returned by Friday morning. 
*As shared at conferences, we will be moving away from using the ClassDojo App for behavior after our holiday break.  I have posted a picture of our new plan.  We will continue to use think sheets going home if there is a concern.  
*DECEMBER Book-It Calendars will be due after the holiday break.
*Looking Ahead... No School Dec. 22- Jan. 2 for our holiday vacation.  School resumes the morning of Jan. 5

**ON the afternoon of THURSDAY, DECEMBER 18 we will be doing a holiday craft and on FRIDAY, DECEMBER 19 in the afternoon we will be watching the POLAR EXPRESS to kick off our holiday break.***

MATH next Week (Dec. 15-19)
We are working in CH 4. Lessons include: Understanding Tens and Ones, Integrate Tens and Ones, Practice Grouping Ones into Tens, & Adding with  Groups of Tens.

READING next Week (Dec.15-19)
Amazing Words: citizen, law, branch, patrol, community, leader, headquarters, earn

**Spelling Words: like, time, dime, kite, ride, white, hide, smile, bike, ice

Characters, Setting, Plot, Main Ideas & Details -Who Works Here?

Special Titles- Capitalization

EBLI Lessons

Social Studies
We are working on an Economics Unit right now.  We are talking about wants & needs, spending & saving, goods & services, and producers & consumers. 

Info for Dec. 8-12

Reminders: 

*Self-Control is our Virtue for December.  

*Agendas and Take-Home Folders need to go home and back each day. Also, please sign your child's agenda each day. 
*Weekly homework packets will go home on Monday and need to be completed and returned by Friday morning. 
*As shared at conferences, we will be moving away from using the ClassDojo App for behavior.  We will continue to use think sheets going home if there is a concern.  
*DECEMBER Book-It Calendars will be due after the holiday break.
*Looking Ahead... No School Dec. 22- Jan. 2 for our holiday vacation.  School resumes the morning of Jan. 5

MATH next Week (Dec. 8-12)
We are working in CH 4. Lessons include: Represent and Compare Teen Numbers, Visualize Teen Addition, Teen Addition Strategies, Investigating Doubles.

READING next Week (Dec. 8-12)
Amazing Words: group, share, borrow, rehearsal, respect, aquarium, lines, soothe

**Spelling Words: face, safe, cage, name, made, make, cake, age, take, late

Characters, Setting, Plot, Main Ideas & Details - The Farmer in the Hat

Proper Nouns

EBLI Lessons

Social Studies
We are working on an Economics Unit right now.  We are talking about wants & needs, spending & saving, goods & services, and producers & consumers.