Elfscapades, Literacy, Base Ten Addition, Personification and Prairie Art!

Reminder: Please wear your ROYAL OAK BLUE SPIRIT WEAR Tomorrow or BLUE if you do not have SPIRITWEAR!

Reminder: Tomorrow we will have Caroling in the Gym from 9:15 a.m.; until approximately 9:45 a.m. Please feel free to join us and sing some festive tunes!

Reminder: Report cards came home today. Please ensure that you read them with your child and send back the signed envelope by Thursday December 21st. 


Jingle Joy Craziness!!

Our elf has been busy tasking us with many random acts of Kindness. We have made cards to thank Ms. Sparks and Ms. Bradbury, our office administration Ms. Braun and Ms. Jackson, our Custodial Staff and our buddies. We also make bookmarks to celebrate reading and to hide in random library books to surprise and brighten someones day when they find them!

Literacy

We have continued to work on improving our FLUENCY by Reading Smoothly. We practice this by reading at an appropriate pace. Punctuation can also help give us a clue if we need to slow down and take a pause or STOP and take a breath. 

Today we got video recorded doing our reader's theatre, this time using our puppets and the puppet theatre. Ask me which was harder, using the theatre and puppets or doing traditional reader's theatre where we stood in a line and stepped forward when it was our speaking part? 


Math

In math we have continued adding two digit numbers using base ten materials, mats and our math book. It is important right now to draw each step and not just the answer so that we can understand what we did and if we make a mistake we can figure out what happened. 

Tomorrow we will continue adding double digits, building with base ten materials and showing our work. Ask me if I can do one at home with you on paper to show you what I am learning.

23+14=?

Personification
Writing/Inquiry

Today we talked about personification after reading the little house and being asked to imagine what the house is feeling and why at different parts of the story. 

Tomorrow we will be looking at the pictures and seeing how we think that the city might be feeling at the beginning, middle and end of the story and why? 

We are also looking at the question of How do Communities form and grow? How do they change over time? Is this change good? Is this change bad? Why?

Prairie Art

Last week we created a horizon line and painting a prairie sky and prairie grass/fields. 

Today we cut hay bales and a little abandoned farm house out of cardboard. We mixed paint to create gray for our houses and put a glue swirl on our hay bale. Tomorrow we will paint our hay bale and glue them onto our prairie picture.