11-18-16

Dear Families,

Your children make me smile!  The stories they share, the ideas they have and insights they make show how much they have grown so far this year.  Tonight, is the talent show.  It is at 6 pm at school!  Next week we have full days Monday and Tuesday, November 21st and 22nd.  If you will not be here, please make sure you let the office know.  The Sunrise Drive Food Drive started this week and continues through December 13th.  Please send in any non-perishable foods to the classroom. 
This week we started making a map where we talk about all the different types of landforms.  These will come home just before the Thanksgiving vacation after we have completed them.  In Poetry, we are discussing the main idea of the poem, so not just the images we understand, but using that image to come up with a complete idea.  This week we worked on conventions, we edited and put all the lowercase letters in the correct place.  We put in periods and exclamation points. 
Next week we will have two regular days.  We will talk about Thanksgiving, finish up our short vowel sounds before we move on to two letter blends.  We will start on our next math unit, Unit 4.  In social studies, we will finish up our map unit and then start a unit on Winter Traditions and teaching the steps of science inquiry. 
Report Cards are available on Parentvue starting today.  Please feel free to email if you have any questions and we can set up a time to meet and talk about your child’s report card.  We will not have library next week; you can send your child’s books in or keep them until after the Thanksgiving break.  Please remember that homework is not due until Tuesday, November 22nd.  That is when their folders will go home again with the next homework. 

Have a great weekend!


       Mrs. Berk