WHATÂS
HAPPENING?
Send in items for
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Scarves, hats,
sweatpants
December 12-7:00
K-2 Christmas program
NEEDED CANDY FOR GINGERBREAD HOUSES!
December 21-Christmas party
12:30-1:10
No spelling test this week!!!
No homework this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
READING
We will be reading a
variety of stories about the Gingerbread Man. We will compare our different versions and write our own.
We will end the week by making a gingerbread house on Wednesday afternoon.
MATH
This week we will be on adding two digit numbers.
We will review a variety of
concepts. Please practice all cards.
Study your addition and
subtraction facts
Our poem this week is:
Eight Reindeer
Eight little reindeer playing in the snow
Eight little reindeer at the North Pole.
All of them anxious for Christmas Day
Waiting for Santa, ÂUp, up and away."
HAVE A MERCHRISTMASMAS
AND
A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!
WHAT’S
HAPPENING?
We are doing a special project for Christmas read attached sheet.
December 12-7:00
K-2 Christmas program
NEEDED CANDY FOR GINGERBREAD HOUSES!
December 21-Christmas party
12:30-1:10
Be sure your child has a coat, gloves, and scarves for cooler and rainy days .
SPELLING WORDS
Unit 16
old, know, road, cold, grow, hold, low, told, own, coat
Spelling test will NOW be given on
THURSDAY
Challenge SPELLING words
below, foam, odor, throat, follow
READING
This week we will be reading the trade book A Chair For My Mother. Books will not be sent home. Students will have a passage to work on reading nightly. Be sure to work on this passage. We will work on vocabulary and comprehension skills.
Vocabulary words are : empty, bargain, boost, savings, exchange, delivered
Our Power Word will be different words we over use. Students will find words that mean the same but are more powerful words. This will help us add a variety of words in our writing.
MATH
This week we will be working on the hundreds places.
Students will be doing a variety of
activities to learn about this concept.
We still are working on our 2 digit addition skills.
We are adding three 2 digit numbers.
Students now have –3 cards.
Please practice all cards.
Study your addition and
subtraction facts!
Our poem for the week!
Christmas Tree
Here is your Christmas tree
Standing right up tall.
Here’s a pot to hold its trunk
So that it won’t fall.
Here are balls to make it happy
One ball, two balls, see?
And here are two bright lights of red
To trim the Christmas tree.
Spelling test will NOW be given on
THURSDAY
Challenge SPELLING words
prize, spice, nylon, spy, twice
We will be making gingerbread houses on Wednesday, December 21st before our Christmas Party. I will supply the house, frosting, and plate the houses sit on. I need candy...Marshmallows, red hots lifesavers, m&ms, candy canes...Whatever you can think of....Please help!!!A good internet site is dictionary.com.This would be a good place to look up words. It has a thesaurus.
This will help students to come up with power words this week.
SPELLING IDEAS
HERE ARE GREAT SPELLING IDEAS FOR STUDYING SPELLING WORDS!
Spelling suggestions Remember to complete a spelling quiz at home every Wednesday evening !
2 Color Words: When writing list words, write vowels in one color and consonants with another color. Example: SPELL
Rainbow Words: Write each word once in your best writing. Trace over it in another color. Trace over it with a 3rd color.
Silly Sentences: Write 10 silly sentences using 2 spelling words in each sentence. Variation: Write a short, silly story using all of your spelling words.
Word Magic: Choose 10 words . Write the word once, then write it a 2nd time without the first letter, then write it without the first two letters. Repeat until the whole word disappears!
Example: SPELL, _PELL, _ _ELL, _ _ _ LL, _ _ _ _ L, _ _ _ _ _
Shortest to Longest: Count the # of letters in each word. Then write the words in order from shortest to longest.
ABC Order : Write your spelling words in alphabetical order. Variation: Write it in reverse ABC order.
Antonyms and Synonyms: Write your spelling words. Then write an antonym or synonym next to each word. Write (A) if you choose an antonym. Write (S) if you choose a synonym. Antonyms have opposite meanings, and synonyms have same meanings.
Example: SPELL and MISSPELL (A), or HAPPY and CHEERFUL (S)
Look It Up: Look up 10 list words in the dictionary. Write the word and the guide words from the same page. Example: SPELL, SAIL/TOP
Picture Words: Choose 10 words and create a picture with them. Be sure to label the pictures that match your spelling words.
Words in Words: Write your spelling words, then write as many words as you can discover from that word. No scrambling! Example:
UNBEARABLE: BE, BEAR, EAR, A, ARAB, ABLE
Ransom Words: Write 10 of your spelling words by cutting out the letters from a newspaper or magazine and gluing them to a piece of paper.
Telephone Words: Write each spelling word. Then translate each word into numbers from a telephone keypad.
Example: SPELL, 77355
Pyramid Words: Write the first letter of the spelling word. Write the first two letters of the word below it. Then write the next three letters, etc. Example:
S
SP
SPE
SPEL
SPELL
Cloud Words: Write each spelling word in puffy cloud-like letters.
SPELLING WORDS
Unit 15
my
try
mile
cry
fry
nice
by
sky
fine
dry
December 8 10:00 Elves workshop
Send $1.50 for cost
December 12-7:00
K-2 Christmas program
December 21-Christmas party
12:30-1:10
READING
The story for the week is Jamaica Louise James. Students will use a graphic organizer to make inferences about the character in our story. We will discuss our characters feelings during our story.
vocabulary words are:
Booth, plaque, station, subway, token
MATH
We will be working on subtracting 10 from a two-digit number and measuring with students drawing a line segment to the nearest half inch. We will work on adding two-digit numbers with sums greater than 100. We will learn to order three-digit numbers.
Study your subtraction facts!
Our Power Word will be different words we over use. Students will find words that mean the same but are more powerful words.
