Wow! Can you believe how time is flying? We have two more weeks until the Winter Break. There is right much hustling and bustling of my sweet elves. We are excited about your visit on December 13, but have much to prepare for your arrival.
We are "fine tuning" our personal narratives and completing our first big essay about our Hopes and Dreams for ourselves and the world. The children have some definite views as to what they would like to change about the world.
We will have a spelling list this week with a test on Friday. The words this week focus on three important prefixes, un, re, pre. The children have a prefix and suffix chart in their spelling notebook. It is my goal to use these charts as a strategy to help with words in their reading that they may find difficult to understand. Tonight they just have to write the base word on the blank next to the definition of the prefix.
We began our book, The History of Us. Some of the questions that are posed in the book and did spark some class discussion were: What's the point of studying history? Who cares what happened long ago? Tomorrow we will get in our time capsule and going back to the Ice Age.
I have asked the children to study and prepare for the 5's and 6's and 7's multiplication quizzes this week. We will plan on having our math test on Thursday.
Thank you to all who brought in a canned good for the food drive! Don't forget about our holiday gift drive. We all appreciate all that you do for the community within and outside of Shorecrest.
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