Week of December 7th

Thank you so much for my amazing Bridal Shower. I had so much fun. I loved how all of the girls had diamond rings :). Thank you for your love and gifts. I am taking the book the kids made to the wedding for everyone to see. What a special memory! Thank you for supporting me during this special time. Please remember that I will not be at school December 15th through the 18th.

Please continue to bring in gifts for the Holiday Gift Drive!

Here is what is going on this week!

Language Arts
Comprehension Focus

• Fiction and Nonfiction
  
• Monitoring Comprehension: Rereading
• Possessive and plural possessive nouns
  

Spelling and Challenge Words: advice, giraffe, slice, village, judge, gentle, princess, bridge, cereal, cabbage, necessary, fireplace, gentleman, gymnast, celebrate

Bonus Words: Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, December, traditions

High-Frequency Words: above, shoes, tough, wash, wear, woman, young

Robust Vocabulary and Student-Friendly Explanations:
wilting - When a plant doesn't get enough water, the leaves start to droop because they are wilting.
flitted - If something moved quickly from place to place without stopping for long, it flitted.
swirling - If something is swirling, it is moving round and round quickly.
trance - When someone is in a trance, he or she seems to be asleep, but his or her eyes are open.
route - When you follow the same route to school or to the store every day, you are going the same way each time.
semblance - When you make a drawing that looks a lot like someone, it is a good semblance of that person.
distraught - When someone is distraught, that person is very, very unhappy.
improvise - If you improvise a song or a story, then you make it up as you sing the song or tell the story.

Math

* Exploring Polygons, Arrays, and Attributes
* Quadrangles
* 3-Dimensional Shapes
* Pyramids

Current Events:

Monday: Reece and Michael
Tuesday: Mace and Luke M.
Wednesday: Simon and Anna
Thursday: Madison and Christina

Parent Reader: Leslie Mastalerz
Here are some changes for Library Volunteers: Catherine Cobb - December 14th
Ann Goldman - January 25th