Our last week before Winter Break is already here! It is sure to be a fun one both at school and at home!

Our field trip to Barlow Planetarium is on Thursday. If you volunteered to chaperone, please be at school by 9:55. We will leave at 10:00 and will return by 11:50.

We will have a holiday color day on Thursday. Kids can deck out in their best red and green!

Our next yoga day will be on January 3, the day we come back from Winter Break. Please remember to send your child in cozy yoga gear.

Curricular Notes:

-We continue to read and write fiction this week. We will also spend lots of our reading and writing time working with our planet book clubs to plan, practice, and present what we've learned to the rest of the class. 

-We are finishing up our measurement unit in math this week. Our next unit will focus on subtracting 2- and 3-digit numbers.

-We are finishing our unit on space and the planets. The Barlow Planetarium will be a great reinforcement of things we've learned. We'll move on to a social studies unit, The Geography of Kaukauna, when we return in January.

Just a reminder that there is no school on Friday of this week or all of next week. Classes will resume on January 3rd. I truly hope that you enjoy your time together as a family! I'll be looking forward to reuniting with the kids in January!

Take care!

Lisa

Snow has finally arrived! The kids are going to LOVE recess and the day off on Tuesday!

A few reminders for the next two weeks:

Monday, December 12 - Barlow Planetarium permission slips and payment due

Tuesday, December 13 - No School for students

Wednesday, December 14 - Wear your favorite college apparel

Thursday, December 22 - Wear Holiday Colors

Thursday, December 22 - Barlow Planetarium Field Trip from 10:00-11:50 (If you signed up                                       to join us, please be at school by 9:55. Thanks!)

Friday, December 23 - Monday, January 2 - No School - Winter Break

Tuesday, January 3 - Classes Resume

In the classroom...

HF Words - New words will be coming home later this week.

Reading - This week we start our third reading unit - Studying Characters and their Stories. We move from studying main ideas and key details to characters and life lessons. Our first week in the unit centralizes on recalling what we already know about reading fiction. Readers start reading by thinking about what they know about the characters and how the story might go. This is a favorite unit for both students and teachers!

Writing - Our writing genre changes this week too. We begin our third writing unit, Writing Gripping Fictional Stories. This unit has the writers use their previous small moment writing skills to write 'edge-of-the-seat fiction stories', stories that have made up characters and events, could happen in real life, and have the reader on the edge of their seats. This is also a favorite unit for all of us!

Math - We continue working our way through Unit 3, Length and Shapes. This week we use a meter stick, inch ruler, and yard stick to measure objects in our classroom and our classmates! We will compare our measurements after plotting them onto a line plot.   

Science - Planet research is in full swing. Groups have begun reading and recording important information on their planets. Research will continue through next week when groups will begin their preparations for presentations.  

Have a great week,
Lisa