Mrs. Richards' Reports from Room 137

Thank you parents for your support for our Christmas concert which was such a wonderful success. The children worked hard learning all of their songs and then performing well!

We are counting down to Christmas in many ways.  We will finish up our study of how different cultures celebrate Christmas by learning about the African celebration of Kwanzaa which is on Dec. 26th. We are connecting this inquiry with learning about needs and wants. Mrs. Blank will be working with our class and teaching us how to use Scribble Press on our iPads. The children will create a few pages about needs and wants.

In Math, we will practice making tens and ones using Educreations on our iPads. In our math journals, the students are reading math problems and looking for clue words like in all, altogether, and how many left to write number sentences for addition and subtraction.

Mrs. Richards' Reports from Room 137

We have a busy week ahead with two concerts this week. Tuesday afternoon at 1:30, we will be a part of the audience as the band, orchestra, strings, and chorus perform for us. On Thursday we get to be the performers at 12:45 for the dress rehearsal and then 6:00 for family and friends. Please have your child at school by 5:30 in Room 137. I will watch the children in the classroom in between performances.

Last week we continued our inquiry about how cultures celebrate the holidays and finished up with Hanukkah by playing the dreidel game. The children made wooden shoes for St. Nick's like the children in Holland. This week we learn about Germany and Mexico and how they celebrate.

We had our last ACE presentation on what it means to be a "composer".  Students enjoyed the presentation.

****  Please be sure that your child has a hat and mittens every day. Boots and snow pants are required if your child is going to play in the snow. *****

**** The PTA  Elf Workshop is this Friday from 5:30-8:30.  I will be helping out at the 5:30 slot.
Hope to see you there!****

Here are some recent pictures from Thankful For Books Day.

Mr. Dan Bailey, Evan's Grandpa

Mr. Glomski,  Brady's Dad

Class Picture with our PJ's

Amaya reading with her buddy, Cora

Micala reading with a buddy

Austin and Ian reading on their Ipads

Evan and Hope are reading a Collins Cat Book.

                                                                        ACE Presenters are teaching us about what a  "composer"does.

Mrs. Richards' Reports from Room 137

Welcome back from Thanksgiving break! Hope you had a great time with family and friends!

There are a lot of fun things planned for this week. We will finish off our inquiry on the Pilgrims and Native Americans and move onto how other cultures/countries celebrate the holidays. We will also talk about the needs/wants of the pilgrims and compare them with ours. We have our last ACE presentation on Thursday about Modern Day Music. In Math, we will be working on counting up from a number, counting tens and ones, and adding ones to a ten.

Here are some pictures from last week!

This is Venn Diagram comparing things from the time of the pilgrims and now.

A Venn Diagram showing who liked biscuits, salted beef, and homemade butter.

We are thankful for Story's Grandpa reading to us!