Mark Your Calendar:
December 2nd> HW packet going home >>Due December 13th, a 2 week time period for completion. Start working on words over Thanksgiving Break>>the words are getting more challenging.
Week of December 1> Santa’s Shop (We will be shopping on Tuesday, December 3rd ONLY. We ask that you limit your shopping list to immediate family only since our time is so limited and they will be shopping with their guardian angels) A sheet with gift tags will be going home for you to fill out. Please look for it and return on Monday.
Friday, December 6th> Quick Check
Week of December 13th> Quick Check and Homework Folder DUE
Week of December 16th>Review Week: Report Card, ESGI sight word and Listening Comprehension assessments being done this week. Please be sure that if your child is not sick they are present at school for these assessments.
Friday, December 20th> Half-Day 12:00 Dismissal;Christmas Party: start time at 10:30 (look for Sign-up Genius to go out after Thanksgiving for ways to donate and volunteer); End of 2nd Quarter: We will attend an All-School Mass at 8:15
Schedule of Specials:
Tuesday and Thursday (PE): children wear PE short and shirt with approved tennis shoes and plain white socks. Light-Up shoes and socks with color/emblems are not allowed.
Monday, Wednesday, Friday (Spanish, music, guidance): children wear regular uniforms (no PE). Approved shoes and navy socks are required. Tennis shoes are not to be worn on these days. Belts are required if there are belt loops. Hair accessories are limited to the colors found in the uniform.
Academic Themes for the Week
Topic: Gingerbread Man
Look for their Weekly Emergent Readers to go home on Fridays. I encourage you to save these weekly emergent reader books in a special place: a treasure box or special basket. Whenever they want to pull out a story to read to you, they can select a story from their special story box.
Reading Block: Capitalization & Punctuation; Blending; Verbs in the Past Tense; Writing a Complete Sentence; ASSESSING WRITING ALPHABET LETTERS (UPPERCASE AND LOWERCASE) AND NAME
Word Study: short /o/ word families
Writing: characters continued and setting; narrative writing and opinion writing
Sight Words: how many where find
Math Block: order numbers 0-10; identify days of the week and sequence of events that happen during the week; identify and count with pennies; identify time to the hour; ASSESSING WRITING NUMBERS 1-50+
Science/Social Studies/Art: Christmas; Gingerbread Man;
Religion: Nativity; Immaculate Conception
Enrichment
THE FRIENDLY BEASTS will be a 2 week project.
New Provocation Station Question: What do you notice about rocks?
Mad Scientist:
Foodie Fun Day: Gingerbread Man Hunt
To Work On At Home:
writing their name
correct letter and number formation (top to bottom, left to right)>Many are still struggling with this.
cutting with scissors
taking on and off their belt