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

Happy December! I hope you all had a delightful Thanksgiving break as our Winter holiday is right around the corner.  The month of December is going to fly by. We have two more weeks of learning, sharing, and a bit of fun as we wrap up 2025!

Announcements - 

• 12/8 - 12/12 - Raffle tickets on sale for Donation of Funds (25 cents a ticket)
• 12/12 - Book Project Due
• 12/18 - Lower School Winter Concert 8:45 am
• 12/21-1/6 - Winter Break
• 1/7 - School resumes
• 1/19 - No School Dr. MLK Jr Day

Ask Your Child About - 

• Community Building
• SEL with Ms. Bird - Small, Medium or Big - deciding how to deal with the importance of different situations are they small, medium or big? Also Bounce or Splat - dealing with a challenging problem, change in plans, or situation--how do you react?

• Math
• Elapsed Time
• Analog Clocks 
• Military Time - the full 24 hours
• Hours, Days, Months, and Years

• Literacy (Read Aloud, Word Study, Reading, Writing)
• Newspaper article about Thanksgiving break.
• Mr. Popper's Penguins by Florence and Richard Atwater 
• Finishing up their personal narrative.
• 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
• Why do plants grow flowers? Pollination and plant reproduction.
  

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

Announcements - 

• 11/18 - 11/20 - Ms. Mo off island 
• 11/20 - Lower School Taste of Thanksgiving 11:30 - 1:00 p.m. 
• Remember- Thursday is a full school day.  The feast will end around 1:00 just let me know if your kiddo is leaving early with you or another family. Enjoy!
• 11/21 - No School - faculty workshop
• 11/24-28 - No School - Fall Break
• 11/30 - School resumes
• 12/18 - Lower School Winter Concert 8:45 am
• 12/21-1/6 - Winter Break
• 1/7 - School resumes

Ask Your Child About - 

• Community Building
• Silly Stringing Mr. Sinfield
• November Birthday's - Rodney, Timothy, Ayat and Milo!

• Math
• Place value
• Rounding to the tens, hundreds, and thousands place
• Comparing values on a number line
• Expanded/Decomposed form
• Time on Analog and Digital!

• Literacy (Read Aloud, Word Study, Reading, Writing)
• Books on Kindness
• Enemy Pie by Derek Munson
• Taste Your Words by Bonnie Clark
• Learning the technique of writing - a personal narrative
• Dictionary - the way to use one
• Fundations - the schwa in a word and knowing how to spell them - wagon, travel, salad, pollen, lemon, planet, rocket, pocket, bucket, helmet, and jacket.
• Cursive writing

• Science/Social Studies/Global Perspectives
• Kindness Around the World
• Veteran's Day - history and information
• Pollination and Plant Reproduction - pumpkins!

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

October

 - Mark Your Calendars - 

• After School Activities (Fall Session) began 9/29 and run through 11/14
• 4-H Club - Monday
• NAHS Wearable Art - Thursdays
• Run Club - Thursdays
• Chess Club - Fridays
• NHS Study Group - Fridays

• 10/10 No School - Teacher Workshop

• 10/13 No School -  VI&PR Friendship Day

• VI Junior Duathalon - Sunday, October 19th at Altona Lagoon ages 5 - 15

• Friday, October 24th: Fall Conference Day No School

• Halloween Fun! October 31 - Costume Parade (school day) and Boo Bash 4 - 7 pm  

• 11/3 No School - Bull and Bread Day - David Hamilton Jackson

• 11/24 - 11/28 No School - Fall Break

    

Ask Your Child About - 

• Community Building
• Fun Run Fundraiser
• October Birthday's - Amira and Quin!
• Welcome Indigo to the 3rd Grade Group!

• Math

• Numbers and number system
• counting and sequences
• negative integers
• reading a thermometer - positive and negative
• place value - multiplying/dividing by the value of 10 and 100's 
• Rounding to the nearest 10's and 100's place value

• Literacy (Read Aloud, Word Study, Reading, Writing)

• My Papi Has a Motorcycle by Isabel Quintero
• The Third Grade Reader by Curious Bee
• Donavan's Word Jar by Monalisa DeGross
• The Best Weekend Ever 
• Spelling words in class work - son, sun, sum, some, patches, from, glasses, foxes, halves, plain, plane, missed, mist, exhale, reptile, confuse, athlete, inside, cave, trombone, flute, mail, male, captive, school, inflate, inflatable, compete, competing, bravely, bravest.
• Working with suffixes - s, es, est, ed, changing the f to a -ves, and adding an extra consonant for the -ing
• Cursive writing

• Science/Social Studies/Global Perspectives
• Hispanic Heritage Month
• How to Predict a Storm from the Cloud Formation
• Weather Around the World
• Bats and Spiders Oh My!

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