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Friday, December 11, 2015

Week of December 14-18

Good afternoon, parents! We’ve had a great week! The kids have finished reading their literature circle books and I can honestly say that I believe everyone enjoyed the text they were assigned to read! Many are seeking out sequels and other books written by the same author! I am so proud of their enthusiasm and eagerness to keep on reading!
            Today we also had the opportunity to help our Kinderpups wrap their Husky Helping House gifts and to wrap our own! The kids had a blast and they love working with their Kinderpups! It’s been really neat to watch them step into leadership roles with their younger buddies! J
            Please read the message below for some important things you need to know in the coming days! Have a wonderful weekend!

Upcoming Tests
Division Test on Tuesday

Study Links for the Weekend
To help your child study for Tuesday’s division test, please have him/her practice a 4-5 problems at each of these links over the weekend.
Dividing Decimals Practice: 
Division Word Problem Practice: 
Interpreting the Remainder Practice:

Donuts with Santa
Tomorrow from 9am-noon is Donuts with Santa! Hope to see you there!

Schoolwide Pajama Day
On Thursday, December 17th feel free to wear pajamas! We are having a schoolwide pajama day!

Catalogs Please
Please send in any catalogs you have at home so we can use them for a fun math project next week!

Playground Survey
The PTA is asking that all parents complete the following survey regarding our playground here at Harmony.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/Z8F8BND
Here’s what’s coming up next week in our curriculum!
7 Habits: We are going to take some time to step back and review the 7 habits next week as we refocus our personal and academic goals.
Social Studies:  We will begin a fun, new endeavor next week as we explore the Mission U.S. program online to build background information on the Revolutionary War.
Math:  During math we will wrap up our division unit and then we will begin an authentic project in which kids will complete a virtual shopping spree.
Reading: We will finish up our study of point of view and verb tense, and then work on comparing and contrasting literary texts.
Writing:  Our focus for writing will be to learn about perspective, how to see situations and events through another person’s eyes.  The kids will specifically analyze slavery through perspectives of various people including a slave, an abolitionist, a slave owner, and then their own perspective.


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