As we celebrate the birth of Christ I wish you all a wonderful and joyful Christmas.  Thank you for your gift of kindness. Your children and families are all special to me.   Safe journeys, peace and love.

Mr. M.

Math – Reteaching and a reassessment of detecting the patterns and skip counting.
1st -Unit test

Specialist – PE

Label the pictures – Christmas and snowman

Phonics – Explode the Code

Word of the Day = K – “has”
1st – What’s the best word?   Fill in the blanks.  Fix the sentence.

Reading – K/1 – Leveled readers and they read their library books
1st – Adjectives

Today we made our Library visit to present our cookies and card to Mr. Brian and the other librarians.  We also listened to a couple wonderful books and then book shopped.

Read Aloud – The Gingerbread Man Loose in the School

Tomorrow is PJ Day

See you tonight.

Mr. M.

Math – K – End of Unit 7 Review and Test on Addition sentences.  Tomorrow we will re-visit patterns for counting by 10’s, 5’s and 2’s.  We will review once more and I will do a final assessment.
1st – Review for test tomorrow

Specialist – Creative Movement

Social Studies – Globes, weather and seasons.

Word o the Day – K – “into”
1st – Language Review – Read and decide.  What’s the answer?  Fix the sentence.

Reading – K/1 – Leveled readers
1st – Language – Adjectives – Size, shape, how many and color.

Practice for the performance tomorrow night

Handwriting – K – Lowercase “m” with a sentence
1st – Words and symbols.

Writing Prompt – K/1 What do reindeer do?

In Fruit of the Spirit the story of how God wished us all to be different.  Different language, food, where we live and color.

Our prayer was :

Talking to God
Thank you for making each person different and special.  Help me to enjoy many different kinds of friends.  Amen.
Even the stars differ from each other in their glory 1 Corinthians 15:41b

Coming UP:
Tomorrow – Pizza – Christmas performance at 6:30, please have your children at the River View District building by 6:15PM – Please remember to bring a few cookies for after the performance.
Friday – Pajama Day – We will enjoy a laid back day of fun games,  video and popcorn.

Mr. M.

Math – K – Lesson 7-7 Draw a picture
1st – Lesson 6-6 6-7 Pictures with number sentences

Specialist – PE and Art

Word of the Day – K – “know”
1st Language Review – Write the contraction.  What is spelled correctly? Fix the sentence.

Reading – K – Leveled readers with some students moving  up in level.
1st – Language – Special naming words that need capitals,  days, months and holidays.

Writing Prompt – My reindeer has……..

Read Aloud – The Christmas Magic

The big deal of the day was going around our community to the fire and police departments as well as City Hall.  We met a bunch of firefighters and our City Manager, Mayor-Elect and office staff.  We  finished at the Police Department where the Chief and his officers came out to meet us.  All showed their appreciation as we expressed ours with cookies and Christmas songs for the great work they all do .

Mr. M.

Math – K – Lesson 7-6 Addition sentences
1st –

Specialist – Spanish

Social Studies – Landforms Water and land

Word of the Day – K – “look”
1st – Language Review – Two words in the “id” family. More than one.  Fix the sentence.

Decorating Party – Thank you to all for the baked goods and decorations for the cookies.  They look great!  Also a shout out to those brave parents who came in to help as I could not of done it without you.  I have a few containers that came in without names on them.  I sent pics out in class dojo.  So let me know what is yours and I will get it back to you.

Tomorrow we will board the bus to deliver cookies to City Hall, Fire an Police Departments.  Thursday we will deliver to the library on our normal library day.

Wednesday – Christmas show practice at school
Thursday – Pizza, Library and the Christmas show at night.
Friday – PJ Day.  Come in your PJ’s with your stuffies.  A day of popcorn and Christmas vids.

Mr. M.

Math – K – Lesson 7-5 Finding sums
1st – Lesson 6-4 Fact families

Specialist – Music

Craft – What Christmas means to me paper ornaments to hang on the three Christmas trees (one on each floor)

Word of the Day – K – “made”
1st – Language Review – Where do they belong?

Reading – K/1 – Leveled readers
1st – Special naming words that get capitals

Handwriting – K – Lowercase “n” with a sentence
1st – Paragraphs

Writing Prompt – I would decorate my gingerbread house with ……

Spelling – K/1 Test was today

We watched the children’s classic The Velveteen Rabbit to end our day.

Reminders:
Bakers and supplies – Please deliver on Monday morning.  We will decorate at 12:40 and will be greatly appreciated can come in to help with the decorating.
Tuesday – We will deliver our decorated cookies to the fire station, police station, library and city hall at 12:40.  Again, all are welcomed to join us.  Tell me your time so I can give you credit or log yourself if you come in.

Go Army Beat Navy!

Math – K – Lesson 7-4 Using the “+” sign
1st – Lesson 6-3 Using related facts

Specialist – PE

Social Studies – We conclude Families and Neighborhoods with a neighborhood celebration.

Word of the Day – K – “not”
1st – Language Review – Making a compound word.  Two words in the “ail” family.  Fix the sentence

Reading – K/1 Leveled readers.
1st – Language – What is the telling word for the naming noun?

Spelling – Test tomorrow.  1st graders please study!

Student Council Today

Tomorrow is popcorn day!
Our class is leading the school in participation with Wildcat Annual Giving Campaign.  Thank you!! We are looking for 100% participation so please consider a donation, and of course if your company does matching funds please be sure to pursue the match.

*** Parents Night Out is nearly full with over 30 kids for Friday.  So if you want to get out and shop, Friday might be the time to do it without the children.  It’s not to late to sign up.

Mr. M.

Math – K/1 – Doctor appointment for me so no math today.  They worked on December portfolio.

Specialist – Movement – Along with two practices today for the Christmas performance.

Social Studies – Rights and responsibilities.

Word of the Day ” now”
1st – What words rhyme?  What’s the best word? Fix the sentence.

Reading – K/1 – Leveled readers and Mr. Zachary (Clara’s dad) was able to come in to mentor read.
1st – Adding ‘s to a naming word to show possession.

Handwriting – K – Lowercase “r” with a sentence
1st – Compound words

Writing Prompt – To make cookies we need…..

Read Aloud – The Velveteen Rabbit continued

Reminders:
Pizza Tomorrow
Friday – Popcorn
Next Monday we will be decorating cookies at 12:40. It would be wonderful if you can come in and help the kids with the decorating.  If you’re baking, making or bringing decorations please bring them in Monday morning.
Next Tuesday we will be delivering them around the community.

A note on the Christmas performance:  Elementary parents are asked to bring in a few cookies.

Mr. M.

Math – K – Lesson 7-3 Joining groups
1st Lesson 6-2 Making 10’s to subtract

Specialist – K/1 PE and Art

Word of the Day – K – “one”
1st – Language Review – Real or make believe?  What’s spelled correctly?  Fix the sentence.

Reading – K/1 – Leveled Readers – I am doing another round of DRA’s (developmental reading assessments).
1st – Prepositions

Writing Prompt – I like to bake ……

In Class Dojo we tackled the beast again today (conquering our fears).  After the lesson they drew their own Beasts and what were their fears.

Read Aloud – More from The Velveteen Rabbit

We ended our day with Learning Centers

Mr. M.

Math – K – Lesson 7-2 More joining
1st – Lesson 6-1 Making 10 to subtract

Specialist – Spanish

Portfolio – Finished November entry

Word of the Day – K – “make”
1st – Language Review – Read and decide.  Fix the sentence

Reading – K/1 Leveled Readers
1st – Language – Special spelling of some words

Handwriting – K – Lowercase “j” with a sentence
1st – Capitals and abbreviations

Writing Prompt – On winter break I want to…..
K/1 – Label Santa

Read Aloud – The Velveteen Rabbit

Mr. M.