Spanish started on Monday!  Everyone enjoyed meeting their spanish teacher and learning some new words.  We will no longer have library time on Monday. Our new day for Library is WEDNESDAY, so please be sure that your child brings in his or her library book by Wednesday.

Good Readers...

• Preview books and make predictions.
• Study what is going on in the picture and notice how the character is feeling.
• Use their "magic wand" to point under each word.
• Find words that they know!

Sight Words - Class words - look and on.  Individual sight words went home today.

Good Writers...

• Brainstorm about a personal experience or memory.
• Illustrate and label their story.
• Add to the picture, add to the words, and start a new story.

Good Mathematicians learn about 3-D shapes!  We identified and sorted 3-D Shapes - cone, cylinder, ball shape (sphere), and box shapes (cube and rectangular prism).  Everyone enjoyed sorting the various 3-D items that were brought in for our museum.  Thanks for your support!

Social Studies - We began discussing various holidays like Sinterklass and Hanukkah.  We will continue to talk about December holidays and traditions throughout the month.  We completed a Second Steps lesson on feelings.  We talked about how you can tell a lot about how someone is feeling by looking at his/her facial expression and body language.