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Week of December 12-16, 2016

Mark your calendar:

Winter party:  Friday, December 16^th 10:00-11:00

Early dismissal:  Friday, December 16^th at noon

Winter Holidays:  December 19^th-January 3^rd 

School resumes: January 4^th

Cold weather clothes = lots of buttons, snaps and zippers!  Many children could use some practice putting on and taking off their jackets and sweatshirts.  Outerwear should be loose enough to go on and off without assistance.  Also, if your child brings a jacket/sweatshirt, please make sure his or her name is inside it. J

RCE is celebrating the upcoming winter holiday!  The teachers have been dressing with a theme for the last week, and we’d like the kids to join in the fun next week.  This is just for fun; no need to go out and purchase anything extra.  Just participate if you can!

Monday:  Wear a Grinch shirt or wear green

Tuesday:  Wear your coziest holiday socks

Wednesday:  Wear reindeer antlers and paint your nose red

Thursday:  Wear a jingle bell

Friday:  Rock your favorite holiday shirt and CELEBRATE!  Our winter break is here!

Please send a heavy snack or a light lunch with your child on Friday, December 16^th. We want to be sure the kids eat a little something before they leave at noon.  Send whatever suits your child - a muffin, fruit, a sandwich, breakfast bar, cheese stick, etc. 

COINS FOR CUSTODIANS & CAFETERIA WORKERS

Please send some loose change to school this week to put in the Santa jar in the office.  We’re doing a school-wide collection to divvy up among some of our very hard-working and least appreciated people.  It would be good if your child could donate so they learn to understand that giving is one way to show our appreciation to others.  Thanks, in advance, for your kindness.

It’s time to tie!  Please help us by helping your child learn to tie his/her shoes.  There are lots of great YouTube videos with many different methods.  Grab an old shoe and practice over the holiday.

Theme: Happy Holidays

Reading:  Shared reading and Interactive read-alouds about holiday themes, making predictions, re-telling the story, recalling the sequence of events and discussing the characters, setting, problem, the rising action and solution/conclusion in a story that forms a story arc.

Writing:  Writers Workshop!  Shared, interactive and modeled writing and Independent writing continue. We use a book format to write our own stories.

Word Wall Words:  REVIEW: red, green, yellow, orange, purple, blue, white, pink, brown, black, my, is, to, like, can, see, go, the, in, it, all, me, and, big, has, on, we, but, look, at, little, for, he, said, was

We are testing the children on their sight words.  Please review the words.  They need to be able to read them quickly by sight (not sounding them out). J

Word Family:  Review -at, -an, -all families

Math: Review: tally marks, graphing, counting aloud, counting sets, counting objects with one to one correspondence, and determining more/less (Focus is numeracy to 20).

Science:   Continuing force and motion

Social Studies:  Holiday Traditions

Homework: Read 20 minutes every night.

Optional Activities:

·       Monday:  Ask your family what their favorite holiday symbol is:  dreidel, Christmas tree, or a candy cane?  Record their answers with tally marks!

·       Tuesday:  Write a sentence using the word SAID and a sentence using the word WAS.

·       Wednesday:  Put five toys in a line.  Practice describing them using your ordinal numbers (first, second, etc.)

·       Thursday:  Visit www.raz-kids.com

·       Friday: Enjoy family time, read a story, and/or play outside!