Weekly Newsletter
“Catch Moore” News from our “CREW”
12/7/12
NOTE: Thank you for remembering to bring in the Christmas Food Basket items as well as Gingerbread house items for our creations! (We will need this by December 13th) I realize it is a lot lately, thank you!
Lastly, way to go to my first grade “STARS”! Where they beautiful singers and performers Tuesday or what?!!! Good job boys and girls…I am so proud of you!
LANGUAGE ARTS : Theme 7 is in full swing! We are reading “The Bell in the Well” and have been discussing Nasty Nell and Jill who are the main characters in the story! We are reviewing proper nouns, and sentence structure for extra practice during independent writing activities. We have worked hard creating many SH and TH words using magnets, markers, pictures and of course the IPADS! Together we have practiced predicting, inferring, and making connections in text! Next week, we will wrap up theme 7, right before our break!
We love the NEW and IMPROVED Santa suits that have been coming in. We will be creating a writing piece soon to correlate with this activity. This works perfectly with our discussions of MAIN IDEA and DETAIL! We will also be WRITING TO SANTA HIMSELF! You may have seen a “NAUGHTY or NICE” paper come home, earlier in the week. We have been checking the “SANTA” websites to check it TWICE! If you explore www.emailsanta.com you can get a sneak peek at Santa on a WEB CAM! Very interesting to see Santa at work!
MATH: We are continuing to learn about subtraction and how to check our work by using addition. Math homework has been coming home; please help your little one check over any mistakes to correct. We have also reviewed addition, just to keep in practice! We will soon be “playing” gingerbread math games to correlate with our theme! Please continue to help your child and log in to www.xtramath.org for additional practice!
SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES:
We are in the middle of some very fun Santa activities! The students are working We will begin some gingerbread fun, reading stories, comparing characters and more. This will go right along with weather, Santa, winter etc…
Our gingerbread making will be Monday, December 17th! Thank you for bringing in the candy and other items!!!
Reminders:
December 13th- All Gingerbread items due, from graham crackers to candy!
December 17th-Gingerbread House Creations!!
December 20th –School wide Snowmen winter rotation
December 21st –Breakfast with Santa, Wear Red and Green, 2:15 dismissal
December 21st-Christmas party at 1:00pm.
Mrs. Somer Moore
In the PIRATE this week you will find a SANTA IS IN EXTRA NEED OF YOUR HELP AND CREATIVITY! PLEASE READ OVER THE DIRECTIONS AND BEGIN YOUR CREATIONS WITH YOUR LITTLE ELF! THIS WILL BE DUE NEXT FRIDAY! I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING THE NEW SUITS!
MATH: We are continuing to learn about part, part whole, addition, missing addend (or part) and diving into subtraction! AGAIN, math homework is beginning to come home, please put this into your nightly practice! THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
SCIENCE AND SOCIAL STUDIES:
Since our theme in Language Arts will be weather, I will combine this with some neat Santa, Reindeer, and Snow fun. This will continue for the next couple of weeks. Soon we will read about Gingerbread and create our Gingerbread Houses. I will send a reminder for those who signed up to help with this activity.
TECHNOLOGY: I am asking for your feedback. Please send me a quick email or jot down a quick note to let me know if you have tried any of the IPAD apps or websites that I have requested. Let me know if they are enjoyable! Application for this week…TEACH ME! This is a very educational application that includes all academics!
Reminders:
December 3rd-Reading calendar due!
December 4th at 7:00pm –Winter concert
December 5th- all Christmas basket items are due
Sincerely,
Mrs. Somer Moore
