Newsletter Information

Mrs. Hendershot’s Class

Friday, December 13, 2013

Dates:

     December 20- Holiday Party

     December 23- January 1 – No School

     January 2 – School Resumes

     January 8- Early Out

     January 22- Early Out

Daily 5:

We are continuing our work in our Daily 5 routine.  The students have really made some tremendous improvements in their work on writing.  They write in a journal daily.  We are really working on making sentences using all the components we have practiced.  So far we have worked on spaces, starting with a capital letter, having a who and a what, and finally using an ending mark.

Math:

We have been busy in our math this month of December!  We just finished up our Chapter 6 on Measurement.  We will spend the last few days before break reviewing numbers to 30.  Our chapter on measurement was a lot of fun and the students did excellent on it.  We were able to play some games about taller/shorter, using a balance to weigh objects in our room, and even working on capacity.  We will be ready for the new unit in January on 2D and 3D shapes!

Health:

We have been working hard in health discussing a variety of different topics.  We spent last week discussing feelings, tattling, and apologizing.  They were really good at understanding different feelings.  Then we discussed the importance of know the difference between tattling and reporting.  Finally we worked on the correct way to apologize to others.  We then started discussing the character traits.  Please be asking your child to share what they have learned.

Helpful Hints:

     Start working on finding objects that are cones, cubes, cylinders, and spheres.

     Begin working on the number words zero through ten.