It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas!

We have been busy making decorations for the hallway! We sponge painted Santas last week and we also made reindeer.

We just finished Unit 2 in Language Arts. We had our Unit Test on Monday. If you have not returned the assessment please do so ASAP. In Unit 3 we will continue working on setting, character, main idea, compare and contrast, and realism and fantasy. We will also continue to review all letters and sounds. You should have received the Unit 3 sight words. Please begin to practice those at home. Once your child knows all of the words please return them in a labeled bag or envelope so we can test your child in school. Also remember to review the Unit 1 and 2 words as well! We will continue to work on decoding new words. Here is a list of some words you can practice at home (tip, sip, pat, cat, rug, map, tin, man, can, tub, bit, bam, nap, mom, Tom, Bim, Pam, cabs, Nan, bats, ram, ribs, rim). Please also remember to read the little tan booklets that are sent home each week.

Many of us are writing independently now! Some of us are even writing 2 or 3 sentences in their journals. Please encourage your child to write at home. Remind them to make the first letter capital and the rest lowercase. They should be leaving meatball spaces between words and they should be using correct punctuation at the end of the sentence.

Just a few reminders--

1. We will be attending the Book Fair Monday morning, December 12th. If you want to send money in with your child please send it in an envelope or bag marked with your child's name and "Book Fair Money" on it.

2. Santa gifts are due Friday, December 9th. Please send it to the office with your child's name and teachers name on it. Gifts should cost no more than $10. Santa will deliver the gifts on December 22nd during our party!

3.We will be attending the holiday band concert on Tuesday, December 13th during the school day.