📣 ANNOUNCEMENTS
- Students need to bring a water bottle with name on a daily basis for proper hydration!
- A letter on giving was distributed this week. Please check it out!
💡DATES TO REMEMBER
Let us know if you have questions!
💡WHAT WE ARE LEARNING THIS WEEK
📕 READING / LITERATURE: We read the last of our folktales this unit--Holland's "The Boy at the Dike" and Germany's "The Pied Piper of Hamelin". We discussed the virtue of courage in the former and honesty in the latter. Ask your child to retell these stories! Also, in preparation for Thanksgiving Day, we read and discussed the poems "Table Manners" and "Over the River and Through the Wood".
We will start reading "The Bears on Hemlock Mountain" in December. Kindly have your student bring them in if you haven't yet. Thank you!
📕 MATHEMATICS: We reviewed some of the different strategies in Subtracting Numbers 11 to 20:
1. Counting Back
2. Subtract the Ones First
3. Break Apart the 10 and Subtract the Rest
4. Other Ways to Break Apart the Number
5. Related Addition Facts / Fact Families
We'll have our test on Monday.
📕 SCIENCE: We are still studying the Human Body. Students learned about the Respiratory system. Students colored models of the lungs and learned facts about breathing. Ask your child these questions: What gas do we inhale?(oxygen) What gas do we exhale? (carbon dioxide) Also, we talked the digestive system and how it works when we eat food.
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