I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving with family. :) It's good to be back, but there's only a few weeks until the holiday break! We have a lot of fun things planned between now and then. Our holiday party will be held on Thursday, Dec. 15th (more details to come) and Polar Express Day is Friday, the 16th. We have permission to wear PJs that day! I will be asking for a couple of volunteers that morning to help serve donuts and hot chocolate.
Today you may have noticed there wasn't a hw packet. I thought I'd give the children (and you all) a break. I would, however, like some help decorating our little classroom tree. Yes, it's another project! Please work with your child on creating a tree ornament that represents your family's holiday traditions, culture, or interests. I would like to have the ornaments by Monday to hang on the tree. A brief letter will go home tomorrow.
This week's theme is the Gingerbread Man. Everyday we will read a different version of the popular story, comparing and contrasting the characters. We will also create a class book, adding ourselves to the story. In reading, our focus is on reviewing and identifying beginning sounds and the short a sound in words, and rhyming words. In math, our gingerbread theme continues with the game "Roll-a-Gingerbread," Gingerbread glyphs, a cookie graph, counting games on the promethean board, and finding the perimeter and area of a gingerbread man.
In science, we are starting a unit on Properties of Matter. Our goal is to sort objects by observable properties, such as color, shape, size, temperature, weight, and texture. We will record in our science journals what objects we've sorted and the property that we used to sort. On Friday, we will place gingerbread cookies in water and observe them over time.
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