Week of November 27th

The Monkeys had a wonderful time on their field trip Friday at the Zach Scott Theater watching Holiday Heroes!  The play focused a lot on working together and embracing differences during the holiday season.  The students were equally excited about riding the big yellow school  bus!

This week in math we will be continuing to focus on more than and less than a particular number.  We are really working on comparing numbers and are doing some fun, engaging activities where we work with each other.  We will begin our unit on measurement at the end of this week.  

In language arts, we are beginning a Zooming in on Stories unit.  We will learn what folktales are this week.  This a brief unit and we will have a bigger unit focusing on fairy tales, folktales and fables in the 3rd nine week period.  We will read the folktale The Mitten by Jan Brett and The Legend of the Poinsettia by Tomie dePaola which is another folktale.  We will also read The Gingerbread Boy by Paul Galdone which is technically a fairy tale.  We will engage in many fun activities with these books from retelling the story, to writing about them and creating crafts.  In writing we will work on a fun Grinch holiday writing activity, continue to focus on phonics and learn more about syllables and work on more handwriting.

In science, we will continue our unit on rocks, soil and water.  We will engage in fun hands on activities and record our findings.  The students really enjoy getting to experience science with these fun activities.  

The Monkeys had a great time learning all about our superstar student, Logan, the week before the Thanksgiving holidays!  We were able to hear all about his life and interests!

This week, the Monkeys were happy to begin learning all about our new superstar student, Natalie!