Happy Monday! Our first pictures were taken from the generous gift drive Shorecrest participated in. The amount of gifts donated far exceeded all expectations. Thank-you parents!
A reminder, even though the weather is cooling off, please do not forget sunscreen. Your child is outside daily and the sun rays do not take time off in Florida.
We will not be having our traditional spelling test this week. I sent the words home today. This week is a visual memory skill. The "er", "ir", and "ur" all make the same sound. We will study and try to remember which words are spelled with which two letters. Please do not feel you have to work on these at home. We will be working on them daily in class. If you are interested in purchasing any Marianne Burke stories, please fill out the order form mailed home. The visiting author will be here in January to talk with the students.
The students will be bringing a hard copy once a week of their morning 4 box warm up work. We do this every morning on their white boards. I think you should review the skills each week. The students are being more diligent in completing their work knowing it is going home.
I encourage you to have the students read and write over break. They should have lots of new story ideas. I will send home a blank 3 page story paper for them to use. The story must have happened to them or a family member. I am also sending home the Unit 5 Family Letter. Please review unit four and utilize the do anytime activities for unit 5. The other pictures show the students engaged in Math activities. Ask them how they get three numbers from a domino. The students are working on knowing math facts as quickly as they know their word cards. Right now we are working on +0 and +1 with any 3 digit number. I will let you know when I introduce another strategy.
Robust vocabulary: cozily, interrupted, triumphantly, admire, accomplishment, ambition
this weeks: compatible, amiable, relax, captured, mercy, struggling
Our winter Pajama party is Friday at 8:15 a.m. for breakfast and there is a noon dismissal as well.
I wish everyone a wonderful holiday season and a Happy New Year! See you January 3rd 2012.

Happy Monday! We are busy working on our new Math scrolls. This is an activity that the students will only work on in class until the end of the school year. They will be given their scroll to continue adding onto as they wish. This practice of reading, and writing two and three digit numbers is very important to their place value understanding. I will also continue to correct reversals and the written order of digits. Example 16, 61 or 161, 116
In Reading Workshop, we have continued flagging important pages, in our stories, with post it notes. This strategy helps us to focus in on important parts of the story so we can share and remember what we read.
Robust Vocabulary: energetic, pace, approached, blunder, reassure, excel
In Writing Workshop, we are continuing working on writing for our readers. Please do not let your child stick uppercase letters in the middle of words or write words in all uppercase letters. This will be corrected on their spelling test.
We will be studying the moon this week. Ask your child about what they have learned each day.
Have a great week! We will.