November 26th Newsletter

Dear Parents and Guardians,

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving break and you were able to spend time with your family and friends!  This week we will be working with more blends, or as we call them "letters that go together."  Our students have been learning to hear those consonants that blend together at the beginning of many words, like: star, flame, climb, and snap.  

This week we will begin to wrap up our work with the narratives we are working on.  We started the piece with oral storytelling to a partner, moved to illustrating a story board to guide our writing and then began our writing.  This week and into next week we'll focus on editing and publishing by giving our narratives a title and a cover, like a real book!

We will also be writing letters to Santa!  We will be mailing them off to the North Pole and hope to get a response by winter break.

This week we will also be circling back to the topic of friendship.  We'll be reading some stories and discussing how to be a good friend.  If you can find a few minutes to have a conversation with your son or daughter about kindness and respect for others it would be much appreciated.  Your support really helps strengthen these concepts.  

This week in math we will make two and three digit numbers using base ten blocks.  We will also compare quantities of numbers by using the terms greater than, less than, and equal to, learn about <, >, and = symbols when comparing quantities, and work with more than and less than number stories.

We will be finishing our communities social studies unit this week.  The children will be learning about maps and creating a make-believe community with a partner.

Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedules to come to parent-teacher conferences.  It was great to meet with you and talk about your wonderful children!  As always, if you have any additional questions or concerns please feel free to email me.

Special Points of Interest

• Friday, November 30th - Field Trip to the Nutcracker - Please remember to send a cold lunch!
• Monday, December 3rd - Friday, December 14th - Kapco Kids2Kids Toy Drive
• Scholastic Book Orders are due Monday, December 7th. Guaranteed delivery by winter break!  You can view the flyers online and order books by going to www.scholastic.com/bookclubs and using the online code:  JBVLK