I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving with your families.
Reading
We will read two selections about owls. Owl Moon is a realistic fiction story about a little girl and her father who look for owls in the woods on a cold winter night. Our other story is entitled Owls. This is a nonfiction book about what owls look like, where they live, and how they hunt for food.
The comprehension strategies we will discuss are predicting, inferring, questioning, monitoring, clarifying, comparing, and contrasting.
In phonics we will emphasize long vowels o, u, and e.
Our vocabulary words are: clearing, echo, meadow, owling, pumped, shadows, threading, rarely, active, blend, outlined, and curved.
The grammar lessons will focus on telling sentences and questions.
To help the children better understand owls we will be doing an owl unit in science. We will be reading books about owls and looking at owl pellets. The unit will conclude with a visit from a naturalist from Willowbrook Wildlife Center who will bring an owl to school for the children to see up close and personal.
Math
We are continueing to work on regrouping with subtraction. Please keep practicing math facts at home. They really need to know their facts to be able to add and subtraction quickly.
Student of the Week
Our special student was Chrissa. She has one brother. A few of Chrissa's favorite things are the color blue, horses, brownies, Junie B. Jones books, and tennis. At school Chrissa likes math and gym. At home she likes to color and read. When Chrissa grows up she wants to be an eye doctor.
Report Cards
Report cards will be sent home in your child's folder on Tuesday, November 29th. Please send the envelope back to school, the report card is for you to keep.
Parent/Teacher Conferences
Conferences are scheduled for the week of November 28th. Please be on time for your scheduled conference. If you are unable to make your scheduled time, please notify the office.
