December 5-9

You can pick up your child's Square 1 artwork at the family night on December 8th by the music room or in the office (after the 8th).

Here is a link to our new homework calendar.

Upcoming Events:

• December 6: Kaukauna Christmas Parade
• Students who are accompanied by an adult can meet at 5:30 at 809 Wisconsin Ave to walk by or sit on the float. Remember to dress warm and bring a blanket if you plan to sit on the float! 
• December 8: Pajama Day AND Family Night: PJ's and Publishing
• December 13: No School
• December 14: Wear your favorite college gear!
• December 22: Wear holiday colors!

Reading: This week, readers will work on adding post it to their books to track character feelings. We will also work on retelling our books. Students will continue to bring new books home as they book shop. If your child is unsure of how the pattern in his/her book goes, you can tell them to use the sight words and then check the pictures to help them figure out what they words might say. 

Writing: As students learn more and more about writing stories and revising, they will go back to add more to old stories. We are beginning to add “flaps” when we run out of room to write on the original page. Students will explore familiar books to notice how the authors put a lead, or beginning, in their stories. Then they will try it. Finally, partners will work together to find gaps in their stories and fill them to get ready for publishing next week!

Math:
We will be wrapping up unit 2 this week. Students will complete the Math Expressions assessment after finishing up the following centers:

• Students will create their own number lines with digits, dot representations, and +1 equations. 
• Mathematicians will work with shapes using geoboards.
• We will use chips and a ‘break apart stick’ to find the partners of a number. Then, they will write the equation that matches.
• Students will practice number identification and number order with a partner. After lining up the dotted number tiles, partner 1 will secretly remove two of the tiles. Partner 2 will need to figure out which tiles are missing.

Word Study:   The sight words for this week are: come, like, look, my, to. A fun way to practice writing sight words is to spread shaving cream or salt on a cookie tray and let your child write the words with their finger!

Science: Scientists will investigate birds and feathers this week. We will rub vegetable oil on our skin to replicate how oil on feathers keep birds warm and dry. We will explore different kinds of feathers too!

Here is a picture from science last week. We played "Predator Prey" outside.