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Thursday 12/01/2016: Cookies with Santa 5-7pm

12/14/2016 Poetry Presentation 9-10, Class party 10-11:30

Friday 12/16/2016 dismiss at 11 a.m.

Teachers will carol in your neighborhood soon, stay tuned for a schedule! :)

*Check our calendar for other important dates.

You're Invited!

Our class will be memorizing and performing holiday poetry for you on Wednesday, December the 14th from 9-10 then our class party will follow from 10-11:30  This will be a very informal time just to be together and celebrate the season! If you cannot attend the poetry presentation, please make sure someone comes to watch your child. It can be a grandparent, aunt, uncle, or a neighbor. Let me know if you cannot find anyone to attend and I should be able to help. The children will be acting out winter poetry and will need to dress up/bring props to “show” their poem. Poems need to be memorized by December 9th. Parents are invited to stay for our holiday party but if you can’t, we understand.

 Reading-We will learn more about the strategies of inferring, theme, knowing the main idea and synthesizing and practice using them while we read for the next few weeks. :) We are also starting a unit on poetry. December the 14th we will have a poetry presentation for parents from 9-10, then our class holiday party will be from 10-11:30!  Writing-We are finishing persuasive essays, then we will begin writing poetry. Math-We will continue to practice our multiplication and division strategies with bigger numbers as we learn more about geometry.

Continue practicing!!!
Strategies with 2 digit by 2 digit where both numbers are large like 48x76 and you need to split both numbers to solve. 3 digit by 2 digit using the open area model strategy. Here are two strategies that we will be using a lot.
Open Area Model
Rainbow Strategy

Other strategies:
FOIL http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ASEnxp4_Kw

We are rolling right along with division of bigger numbers. Most of the kids are using the Multiplying UP strategy right now. And we have just discovered the Partial Quotients or the Big 7 strategy which is an even more efficient strategy. Soon we will figure out what is happening in the traditional algorithm but not quite yet. This concept is still fragile for us!

  Content-We are beginning our study of animals.

Have a great week!!
Mrs. C