Brrr! Winter is here, huh?

The remaining work from Trimester I was in the Things to Stay at Home pocket of your child’s folder last week. I anticipate sending the Trimester I work upon which the grades on report cards were based later this week in the Things to Stay at Home pocket, as well. Thank you for continuing to review, initial, and return Trimester II work to school for your child’s portfolio.

The office wants you to know that they do not have the capability to make change for cash sent in for Dress Down Day, for example, a $20 bill. Only amounts of exactly $5 will be accepted moving forward. The need to send in exact amounts applies to other transactions, as well. Thank you.

There will be a progress monitoring assessment in ELA on Wednesday and a spelling test on Thursday. There will be a Module 9 test on time next Monday, December 15.

This week, we will be

• Discovering how Christ’s birth is celebrated in Mexico and Hanukkah is celebrated around the world in Religion
• Moving into Week 5 of Unit 2 in our Wonders curriculum with a focus on animal anthology and decodable texts, poetry, suffixes, phonemes, three-letter blends, compound and high-frequency words, and possessive nouns and apostrophes in ELA
• Diving into a study of time in Module 9 in Math
• Continuing with our study of governments in Social Studies
• Deepening our understanding of animal hibernation during the winter months in Science

Read-alouds will include

• Too Many Tamales
• Corduroy
• Legend of the Pointsettia
• Beneath
• Must Be Santa

Specials will be Library, Art, SEL, PE, Spanish, Music, and Computers. We will be attending Chapel on Wednesday. Your child will be provided with an offering envelope on Tuesday to take home.

May our precious Lord bless our week together,

Mrs. Nekota