Week of December 3-7

As the countdown to Winter Break begins, we have many things going on in our classroom!  Here are a few reminders.

Husky Helping House

Thank you to the many parents who signed up to buy and item or donated money for our Husky Helping House child!  He is lucky to have such wonderful people working to make his holiday special!  Please remember to send your purchased item to school no later than December 10^th!  We will be wrapping the presents and sending them off that week.

Food Drive

Please remember to send in any canned goods or non-perishable items you would like to donate to our annual holiday food drive.

 PE

Our next PE rotation begins Tuesday.  Please remind your child to wear or bring a pair of tennis shoes.

Upcoming Tests

Social Studies Test over the Colonial Regions on Wednesday (Chapter 7 tutorial)

 Thank you, thank you, thank you!

Thank you to the many parents who made a donation to the classroom in order for your child to participate in Boys’ Night Out and Girls’ Night Out!  Both events were a big success!

 This Week’s Learning Plan

Social Studies:  After we wrap up our learning about the colonial regions we will begin an interesting unit on Colonial Williamsburg where the children will have the opportunity to walk through stations set up to depict colonial life in Williamsburg long ago.

Math:  Fractions!  We will continue learning about fractions, ordering, comparing, finding equivalence, but this week we will explore how to do these things by converting to decimals.

Word Study:  We will explore the different uses of the comma for introductory phrases, for use in a series, etc.

Writing:  Point of view will be explored this week as we have the kids write about slavery for 1^st person, 2^nd person, and 3^rd person viewpoints.

Reading:  In reading this week we will read about slavery and use the skill of gathering information from various texts to write about it.