Important Dates
December
20 – Classroom Holiday Party
23 – Winter Break Begins
January
6 - Classes Resume
15 – Early Dismissal – 12:00
20 – No School
– Martin Luther King’s Birthday
December Reading Logs
Your child can return his/her December
reading log on January 6 when we return from the holiday break. I am sending home January’s log on December 20
so you can begin recording the books they read in January starting January
1.
Cookie Exchange
Thank you to everyone who took the time to
bake cookies and send in food for the cookie exchange. It was all very delicious. My family was thrilled with the cookies
(and so was I)!
We
won’t be having any homework this week due to the holidays. Enjoy the break!
Reading
We will be reading An Extraordinary Egg by Leo Lionni as a part of our Making
Meaning curriculum.
Vocabulary
Words
The
vocabulary words for this story will be:
Pebble, island, wonder, mound, astonished, amazement, commotion, and
triumphantly
Comprehension Strategies
The children will be working on sequencing events and retelling a story.
Phonics
Skills
Our phonics lessons will be centered around
blending long i words. We will also
review the soft sound of “g” /j/ and
“c” /s/.
Grammar
Skills
We
will practice using pronouns in sentences.
Spelling Words
The spelling words are:
six, pad,
smell, bike, time, smile, prize, like, have, bridesmaid
