Announcements - 

• 12/18 - Lower School Winter Concert 8:45 am 
• 12/19 - Classroom Winter Celebration
• 12/21-1/6 - Winter Break
• 1/7 - School resumes
• 1/19 - No School Dr. MLK Jr Day

Ask Your Child About - 

• Community Building
• Morning discussions on the holidays, winter months, and family traditions.
• Book report share - giving new ideas to new books to read.
• Worked with the 4th grade for the upcoming concert

• Math
• Elapsed Time - quarter past, half past, quarter till
• Military Time - the full 24 hours
• Hours, Days, Months, and Years

• Literacy (Read Aloud, Word Study, Reading, Writing)
• Classroom share of Newspaper article.
• Students presented their Book Project - what a great job everyone did! Such wonderful work! I am looking forward to another one!
• Mr. Popper's Penguins by Florence and Richard Atwater 
• Fundations - y as a vowel, schwa in an open syllable with a and i, open syllable exception, and soft c and g in reading.
• Cursive writing.

• Science/Social Studies/Global Perspectives
• Working on listening skills, following instructions and comparing to the final project.
  

• Homework 
• Nightly reading log - 20+ minutes
• Fundations worksheets
• Math Games