News for the Week of November 26th

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving break!  It was nice to see my Monkeys and get back into our regular routine.  We worked hard this week!

In math this week, we worked on comparing sets of objects to see which set had more or less.  We played a game where player one would spin the spinner and write their number.  Then player two spun the spinner and wrote their number.  The student who had the larger number won.  Then we switched it up and the student that had the smaller number won.  We will finish our unit on comparing numbers next week.

In language arts, we read the poem, Can You See Me?, which focused on the sight word "me."  We wrote the word "me" several times, looked for rhyming words in our poem and then colored the illustrations.  We listened to a book on Bookflix called We Are Alike, We Are Different to learn about similarities and differences between people.  This is part of our social studies unit.  We then drew and colored a picture of ourselves and a friend and then discussed how we are similar to our friend and how we are different.  For instance, "We both have hair, but our hair is different colors."  We read the book Two Eyes, A Nose and a Mouth by Roberta Intrater and made face puzzles of ourselves.  We then compared them to other friend's face puzzles.  We watched the video "What Makes a Family?" and discussed how are families are alike and how they are different.  For instance, we all like to have fun, but we may have fun in different ways.  The students then drew and colored a picture of their family.  We then worked on retelling stories on Thursday.  We read Goldilocks and the Three Bears and discussed the events in the story.  We then made a story retelling wheel craft.  The students could then spin their wheel to different pictures as they retold the story.  During our word study, we worked on identifying the middle sounds of words.  We sorted pictures by their middle sound and put them in the appropriate column. We continued our work in our handwriting book by forming the letter m and a few words.

In science, we read more information about rocks and wrote facts that we have learned.  We then made a "rock buddy" to go with our rock writing.  We will hang these up in the hallway this week.  We also went on a walk in and around the school to find rocks, water and soil.  We looked to see how rocks, soil and water were being used.  We will continue discussing the uses of rocks, soil and water next week.

The Monkeys are excited to learn all about our next superstar student, Alicia, next week!

Reminders

Please have your child return their book envelope if they have not already.  I will need their book envelope to give them new books on Monday.

Please have your child bring their decorated shoe box lid to school on Monday.  You are decorating the shoe box lid with your family's holiday traditions.  I will form these into the shape of a Christmas tree and display them in the hallway where our turkeys were.

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: 

Dec. 5th     Bush's Spirit Night
Dec. 6th     Singing Stars Holiday Concert, 6:30 p.m.
Dec. 7th     Field Trip-Zach Scott Theater
Dec. 7th     Deadline for TAG referrals, 4:00 p.m.
Dec. 19th   Winter Party, 2:00 p.m.
12/20-1/7  Winter Break-No School

Superstars & Birthdays:

Morris Superstar:

Alicia!

Morris December Birthdays:

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