News for the Week of December 17th

Thank you SO much to our room parent and parent volunteers for all of your hard work to make the winter party a fun time for the Monkeys!  We truly appreciate your time and energy!  It was a fun party!

Also, thank you very much for all of the sweet cards, gift cards, gifts and treats!  I really appreciate you thinking of me during the holiday season.  I am truly blessed to be able to work with such wonderful and cute students each day!  Kids make life a lot more fun!  I am also very lucky to have such supportive and caring parents of students!  I hope all of you have a safe and wonderful holiday break!

In math this week, we made a measurement Christmas tree and ordered the green strips of paper from longest to shortest.  We then decorated our tree with a star and colorful sequins.  We will continue our measurement unit after the break.

In language arts, we read a variety of fun holiday and Christmas stories.  We made a holiday card to go along with the gift we made for parents.  We hope you all love the calendar gift we made for you!  We also read The Polar Express by Chris van Allsburg and completed the reading response, "If Santa granted me the first Christmas gift, I would ask for ___________."  We then watched The Polar Express and compared the book to the movie and identified similarities and differences.  We will begin a new language arts unit after the break called Asking Questions, Finding Answers where we will research information and read non-fiction text.

In science, we spent time catching up and will begin our unit on weather after the break.

Reminders

Please donate empty toilet paper or paper towel rolls for our STEAM night project.

Please be sure to check out the "Dates to Remember" below. 

Upcoming Dates to Remember: 

12/20-1/7  Winter Break-No School

1/8            Classes Resume
1/21          MLK, Jr. Holiday-NO SCHOOL
1/24          STEAM Night, 6-7 p.m.

Superstars & Birthdays:

Morris Superstar:

None

Morris January Birthdays:

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