December 8

Just a reminder that tonight is our Christmas Concert.  Please have your child in our classroom by 5:45.  The concert will start at 6:00.  Also please remember to bring a donation as part of your entrance "fee".  

The last few days have been a bit unusual with us practicing for the concert and watching others perform.  This afternoon at our dress rehearsal we did amazing.  I cannot wait for you all to see us perform tonight.

Tomorrow we will be taking part in "Fill a sock Fill a need".  Each child will have the opportunity to place a variety of items into a pair of socks and attach a Christmas tag.  Today we spent some time decorating the tags for the socks.

Today in math we started talking about multiplication.  We learned that the best way to become efficient at multiplying is to begin with skip counting.  Your child will eventually be expected to skip count by 5s, 10s and 100s using any starting point.  They will also need to be able to skip count by 3s, 4s and 25s using starting points that are multiples of those numbers. Today we practiced skip counting on a 100s chart on the smart board and then we played a skip counting game that helped us count by 25s.  Please ask your child about this game. 

We are working hard at becoming more proficient with the Words Their Way program.  Each child has words that are geared towards their level of spelling.  They are expected to sort the words, do buddy sorts, write the sort in their journal, write sentences using their words and do a blind sort with a buddy.  

At the end of the day we helped Mrs. McArthur's class with a building project.