The week of Dec. 2-6.

It is nice to get back to school and see your kiddos!  We have a busy week ahead with our B activities and beginning our Economics Unit.

Reading and Social Studies--We are joining these subjects together with our Economics Unit.  Today we learned about our Basic Needs--Food/water, clothing, shelter and the difference between "needs and wants".  The class has a good understanding of what would be a need or a want.  We also talked about why they should save their money and why we parents need to save money.

Also, we will learn about "Goods and Services" this week.  Those of you who have offered to come in to share about your job on Job Day, could talk about whether your job is a good, a service, or something else.  It will help the class understand what kind of job you do!

Letter of the week!  Bb
We will be reading Bear Books and comparing them.

Your child's teddy bear (stuffed animal) received an invitation to visit our class last week!  Please remember to  send a bear or another animal if they don't have a bear in their backpack on Friday for beary fun bear activities!

sight words:  and, you . ( Thank you for your help with learning the sight words at home!  They are really coming along with 1st and 2nd words!) . Don't forget about Spelling City for fun learning games!  Just go to the games for free when you find my name listed.  Spelling city is on the right side of the blog.  Please move on to 3rd quarter words if your child knows 1st/2nd words.

Math this week.
We have reviewed 2D Flat Shapes and are now moving on to 3D Solid Shapes--sphere, cube, cone, cylinder,  and rectangular prism.  Ask your child if they can describe the Flat shapes--circle (round), square- 4 equal side and 4 corners, rectangle--2 long side, 2 short sides, 4 corners, triangle--3 sides, 3 corners.  The kids will have to describe the shapes later on their own.

Winter Wonderland!  I hope you are able to come to some of the Book Fair activities this week too!  It's helpful to shop with your child for books as it's hard for our KDG to know how much the books are.

Our 3rd Grade buddies from Mrs. Judd's class helped us write our Thankful letters last week.  Mrs. Judd was babysitting a social dog, Chaney, so we got to sneak a picture and pet her.  See if your child can point out their buddy to you!

3rd Grade Buddies and Chaney

Our Indian headbands

Dec. 2-7 .                   Book Fair -our library time to visit the book fair is Thursday!  
Dec. 7 .                      Winter Wonderland 9-noon
Dec. 13                      Job Day ( I will send out more info. soon)

Dec. 19                      Class parties 9-9:30, 1/2 day of school-dismiss at 12:10