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December arrived quickly, along with a special visitor: Elfie!
(Here we are with Miss Joanna, as we get ready to start our first day of December.) |
*Students are welcome to bring PJs, bathrobes, slippers, and stuffed critters for the Holiday Party on Wednesday, December 19th!
*Scholastic Book Club orders are due by Monday morning, Dec. 10th. I'll place the order at lunchtime, so we'll have the books delivered before December vacation!
NOVEMBER WRAP-UP
Reading this month
We worked on tackling
tricky words when we get stuck. We
realized that we know a lot already and can figure out what to do on our own or
with a partner.
Writing
We loved reading
books by some favorite authors, such as Ezra Jack Keats, Marc Brown, Kevin
Henkes, Patricia Polacco, Donald Crews, Cynthia Rylant, and Robert Munsch. We noticed strategies that make their
books so cool and tried some stuff in our writing!
Math
We have been
working with humongous numbers – way in the hundreds!
Social Studies and
other News
We have
concentrated on our school community a lot so far this year. With the hurricane, it has helped us to
focus on our town communities.
With the election, we have learned what communities in U.S. states do.
We started
Spanish! Muy bien!
NEWS FROM MRS. MCGETTIGAN
We are working on
Realistic Fiction writing now, where
we can write about characters that face real-life problems. We can even take something that
happened and stretch that story a little bit, and then can “try out” different
ways the problems can get solved.
In reading, we have been focusing on
paying closer attention to what characters want and need. We are noticing their traits, feelings,
and are learning more about everything that happens in a story by closely
following characters and their adventures throughout a book.
Math has been a strong focus into
place value and the students have done an exceptional job. We continue to work with
problem-solving, and will begin to use different strategies to add and subtract
2-digit numbers.
NOVEMBER BIRTHDAYS
November 18: Billy Batson
DECEMBER BIRTHDAYS
December 30: Jack Barber
REMINDERS
Mon., Dec. 10: Scholastic orders due
Wed., Dec. 19: Class Holiday Party
*Students are welcome to bring PJs, bathrobes, slippers, stuffed animals*
December 22 - January 1, 1013: December break, no school
DECEMBER CAMPAIGNS
Hurricane Sandy took a lot out of everyone;
however, if you still wish to donate to some wonderful causes at this time of
year, there are a few taking place at Ox Ridge: (Thank you for your generosity!)
Kids Care - Holiday
Hope Chests need to be collected by Dec 1st. They can be dropped off in
the Hope Chest collection box in the school lobby or at 9 Haskell Lane.
Toys for Tots – Sponsored by; U.S. Marine Corps - bring in unwrapped toys for needy
children (toddlers through teens)
through Dec. 14th.
Hurricane Sandy -
through Notre Dame Academy in Staten Island, where Mr. Latona’s cousin
is Principal. He will be
collecting gift cards for his cousin to personally distribute to the most needy/
effected families associated with the school in Staten Island. The most useful gift cards would
be: Babies R Us, Shop Rite/Stop
& Shop, Sears, Home Depot/Lowes, Pathmark/CVS, Target, Walgreens, Bed Bath
& Beyond, and Visa/Mastercards.
SPECIAL NOTES
- I hope everyone is back on track after October's Superstorm Sandy!
- Thank you for your time during Conference week!
- Continued thanks to our Room moms, Allison Melich and Shelby Smith!
- Continued thanks to all volunteers and for all the work you do with your children at home!
- Scholastic Book Clubs:
- You can still send in your completed forms for me to
submit online, but you can also do online shopping through scholastic book
clubs. This month’s deadline
is the morning of Monday, Dec. 10th so that those books will
arrive before we depart for Dec. vacation (you can still order after that,
but your books will not arrive prior to the break.) There are many other wonderful
book choices listed in specialty catalogs, in addition to the usual 2 or 3
catalogs which are sent home in the children’s school mail. If any catalogs for which you are
searching do not appear as the top recommended, they are still available
by selecting the “Shop By Flyer” option at the top of the Parent’s page
next to your child’s name.
(For example, if you’d like to order from the Holiday Gift catalog
that was sent home last month, you can still do so.)
