A BIG thank you to Gwen and family for sending in some holiday pictures to share. I LOVE that you did the Turkey Trot as a family! I have done that a couple of times and found it to be the best way to start Thanksgiving day. A great time to just reflect and be grateful! Awesome memories!!! You must have followed that up with trimming the tree. It is beautiful and it looks like you are having a blast! Thanks again for sharing!
With only a few weeks before our winter break, we will be in full swing this week. Hopefully all students will be back. Just a gentle reminder that I don't do make up/absent work. I have had a few people ask me to get work together for their kids when absent. My plans change daily according to what the class is doing and how they are doing it. Sometimes it takes longer and sometimes it goes faster than planned. I will do my best to get kids caught up when they return. There are a million home-school sites with tons of printable sheets that you could print practice sheets off of for airplane and car rides. I recommend long division, triple by double multiplication, and any story with questions, especially nonfiction.
Before we left, I gave kids an extra library time in order to check out their December book report books. I know there were a few that had a book at home already picked out and there were a couple that did not use that time very wisely and have yet to select a book. We will do the report the week before we leave for break. That gives kids about two more weeks to read it. We don't have library until Friday. If your child is one that still needs one, I recommend they come in early before school or find one during recess time. I would not wait until Friday. The format for this report will be totally different then the two we have done before.
Academically this week…
Math: Area and starting to convert measurements.
Lead 21: Final drafts of persuasive letters for our school going green. Students will meet with other students that wrote about the same topic and compile a combined final draft using the awesome points from each letter. We will also do some other writing using an essay format and one using our winter imaginations!
Language: finish up irregular plurals.
Spelling: Words ending in ed and ing. Students will drop final e and/or double a final consonant.
Science: We will begin our Project Lead the Way unit on energy. We will organize our kits this week. I did all the prep work this weekend. I am SUPER excited to get going on this one. There are SO many hands on activities where kids get to build things and solve problems. This is similar to the science behind the robotics class offered at Arrowhead. We will build future engineers but the time we are done. I can't wait to see all of them light up when what they build really works.
S.S. We will begin our second region. The states and capitals test will be the week before break. We will make our flashcards this week for home and school.
MT History: State symbols.
Fly Time: Being positive. This will include lessons on helping others speak up and feel safe in a group setting, encouraging others to dream big (including ourselves), and being loyal and a positive leader in our friendship groups. We will also discuss another bully byte. We will talk about what behaviors victims have that make them targets for bullying. This is the "other" side of the bully coin. There are certain things kids at this age target each other about. It is mean, but it is reality. We will discuss what those are and how to handle being unique and strong.
I leave you with some pictures of our home being decked out for Christmas. The kids and I watched Home Alone while bringing out the decorations. I LOVE that movie! Now, we just need our tree! Tis the season to send in some of your pictures too. :0)
Have a great Sunday!
Mrs. Grewell
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