Be sure to have a wonderful weekend and give your kids LOTS of hugs tonight.  I can't wait to go home and see my little one.


REMINDERS:

• On Friday, December 21st the students will be dismissed at 1:25pm. 
• Please send in a seasonally appropriate change of clothes for your child - these are for playground accidents as well as potential bathroom accidents:)

During Social Studies, we have been learning about holidays around the world.  We talked about St. Nicholas Day, Hanukkah, and St. Lucia Day.  Everyone received a "Holmes School Passport" to document the different holidays they learn about and countries they visit.

Good Readers...

• Use a storyteller voice to make the story exciting.
• Use a storyteller voice to convey meaning.
• Continue to discuss the character's feelings and actions.
• Notice similarities between book - The Runaway Latkes vs. The Gingerbread Baby vs. The Gingerbread Man

Our Shared Reading was the "-An Family" poem.  We identified the words ending with the -an sound.  A copy will be sent home NEXT week.

Good Writers...

• Use their imagination to write creative stories.
• Write about family traditions.
• Continue to practice stretching out the sounds they hear in words.

Good Mathematicians...

• Complete repeating patterns.
• Color to complete a pattern.
• Sort and identify 3-D shapes.
• Sort items by different attributes.

Thank you to all of the parent volunteers.  I appreciate your help!