❄ First Week of December ❄

Ask Your Child About...

1. Identify the word 'what' in text around them

2. What the author's purpose of a story is

3. What three things a story needs

4. To create equations using objects around them

Kindergarten Noodlers - Mrs. Hubbard's class comes to visit!

✨Student Council has created another school spirit day for next Friday the 14th: class color day! They have assigned each class with a color to wear that day and encourage all to find something in their wardrobe to match their class for the day. Our designated color is light green! No worries if you don't have light green (I'm not sure I do!), you can aim for anything green that you might have.

📗 Monday, December 10th will be the last day to submit this month's scholastic order through flyer or online. This ensures all orders will arrive to us before we head out for break. If you are wanting certain books to be a surprise simply let me know and we can figure out a way to keep it a surprise.

      

🎭 4th Grade put on a Readers Theater for us in the library!

📚This week in reading we focused on author's purpose. We discussed how authors always have a reason to write the book and we can figure out this reason in various ways. Sometimes all we need to do is read the title or a small excerpt, but sometimes we have to read the whole story to find a deeper meaning. This also helped our students focus their own stories while writing!

🖊We continued our picture prompt writing from last week using the elephant, lion and snowman. The students focused on providing details and not just telling us who/what is in their illustrations. We discussed what they want their reader to know or learn from their story. This lead us to understand that stories have three main needs: Who, Where, and What. I encourage you to help your child write stories at home  and ask them the 3W's of their story. Help them to get all of their ideas on the paper so that anyone can know exactly what their story is about. 🙂

✅ Writing equations and number sentences is tough work! We have continued to work with addition and how we can write equations from story problems. One way to work on this at home is to make simple story problems for them to solve. This could then consist of them telling you the equation and number sentence verbally, written, or using objects. The story problems do not need to be elaborate, they can be things such as: Julie had 9 stuffed animals. Todd gave her 3 more stuffed animals. How many stuffed animals does Julie have now?

Ms. Grady was at training and we did a great job with the substitute!

🙂I hope you all have a fantastic weekend and as always, if there is anything you have questions, comments, or concerns about please let me know! Go Lions! 🦁