Reminders

*Please join PTSA.  I would love for our class to have 100% membership

*PTSA meeting on Tuesday, December 2nd

*  December project is due by Thursday, December 18th.

*Our Winter party will be held on Thursday, December 18th,  More information will be coming home soon!  I am sure we will need many donations and volunteers.

*Please let me know if you would like to take home the newts over the winter break.  I will soon send home a note requesting volunteers. :)

*Happy Winter Break!  Begins December 20th.

*December Book IT!  is due on Friday, December 19th

A Peek at the Weeks

Language Arts
We are reading and writing nonfiction this month.  We have explored the common features of nonfiction text.  We are practicing reading nonfiction and identifying main ideas and supporting details.  WE use questioning skills to help us.  We will work on summarizing, recalling important details, and writing nonfiction paragraphs. We will also work on writing a "how to" paragraph. 
Math
 We are working with geometry in math.  We are exploring types of polygons.  We can identify different types of lines.  We  learn about the parts of a circle and the three types of triangles- isosceles, scalene, and equilateral.   After this, we will be working with division the remainder of the 9 weeks.  Students will understand that division is the breaking apart of things into equal groups, and division is repeated subtraction.  Division is MUCH easier for those students that have multiplication facts memorized.  PLEASE continue to practice each night!

Science, Social Studies, and Health
   We are completing a small unit on economics in Social Studies.  We will explore economic decision making.  We will be able to describe scarcity and opportunity cost.  We will learn how our economy works.  We will explain the difference between a consumer and producer, goods and services,  and supply and demand.
Our next unit will be a science unit on Georgia habitats.  We will explore the different regions of Georgia and the plants and animals that are found in each region.  This is a BIG science unit that will carry over into January!

  
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Thanks:

*Thank you Mrs. Boettcher, Mrs. Cava, Mrs. Charleston, Mrs. Wigley, and Mrs. Betancourt for helping with our Fall Math centers!  We had a wonderful time!

*Thank you to Mr.  and Mrs. Wigley, Mrs. Compton, Mrs. Betancourt, and Mrs. Charleston for always helping out in the classroom!

*Thank you to all the parents that keep donating items for our treasure and treat box!!!!

Requests: 
*Please  save Box Tops and turn them into the school. 

*Please donate small items for our treasure  We are running low.