Dear Families,
It was a wonderful celebration of Mrs. Devereaux on Friday. Thank you for all your contributions and help. She was truly touched!!!!
We are also excited for our Blessing afternoon on Monday, Nov.24th. Please check the sign-up sheet outside our classroom door. Our hearts are full of thankfulness for God’s abundant blessings!!!
Work Envelopes – Please become in the habit of returning these EVERY Friday as well as the book bag. There just is not time on to do this on Mondays. We will start on Friday with “Thinking Bench” time at recess if these two items are forgotten. They are not in trouble, but will sit and think of some strategies that will help them remember. When they have come up with their plan they will tell Mrs. King. This usually ends up being 2-3 minutes.
Reading -. In our Reading Groups we will continue with Leveled Readers where they are becoming accustomed to unfamiliar text. This has proved challenging for some. Be sure you are reading the books I send home on Fridays and this should help. It doesn’t hurt to read the books twice if you are done earlier in the week. This will give much opportunity to apply the phonetic skills that they have been mastering up to this point. They will encounter words they must decode as well as words with the ed ( which has three different sounds – ed as in played, ed as in jumped, and ed as in wanted as well as ing endings. You will begin to see this in Copy and Dictation which is more challenging. Most of our seat work for November will be themed based activities. We will not get back into our Anthology books until after Christmas vacation.
Writing – We will be working on writing about an expository place for our benchmark the week of Dec 1-5, which is right after we get back from Thanksgiving vacation.
Math – We will start a new chapter Time and Calendar. This will take us up to Christmas time. We will also be working on some math review sheets with a Thanksgiving theme.
Social Science – We will continue with “We Love Our Country.
Bible – We will continue to focus on the theme of Thankfulness.
Thanksgiving Celebration– Our Thanksgiving Blessing afternoon is Monday, November 24th. We will have lunch together in our room. Please be on the watch for a sign-up from our room moms for the needed lunch items. After lunch we will go to recess and after recess at 12:30 PM we will be making a “Blessing Mix”, doing a craft and decorating a cookie..We will be doing stations for these activities. There is a sign-up for the needed items for our Blessing Mix and other party goods.Many thanks for your help in making memories with these precious children.
Thanksgiving Unit- We have many activities planned for this unit of study. We will be learning about immigrants in Social Science and the contributions they have made to America. Among the immigrants we will study are the Pilgrims who sailed from England. We will culminate our studies with a Thanksgiving Program with the Kindergartners. First Graders are the Pilgrims and the Kindergartners are the Indians. Second Graders will be Americans. Please wear dark pants or skirt and a white shirt. The girls could wear a black dress as well. Please don’t go out and buy anything special, just wear what is the closest to what you have. The program will be on Tuesday, November 25th at 10:45 AM at SMC Main. If you know your child will not be here for the program, please let me know, as that will be helpful in our preparation in assigning parts.. Thanks! Children are free to go with their parents after the program. I will be there for those who need to stay.
Absences – As we move into the Holiday Season, please e-mail any dates your child may be gone Some may be taking vacations and I want to be sure your child has everything that is needed to keep up while he/she is gone.
Show and Tell – This week is Team B. Your child can bring something to share two times during the week.
Book Orders – Our November, December and Holiday book order will be in the Monday Envelopes. I will place the order online on November 21st. If you want to order books for your child as a Christmas gift, just let me know and I will hold them aside and give them to you in private.
Together We CAN Food Drive – Once again (over the last 11 years; previously called Red Buckets) we have the privilege to help the families of Pinedale this holiday season! We will be collecting CANned foods Nov. 17th thru Dec. 9th to distribute through the Pinedale Book Buddies program. Our students are already volunteering as Book Buddies at Pinedale elementary school and we would like to continue our support for their programs. Our delivery this year will help families by providing food for Christmas.
Elementary Christmas Program –Be sure to mark your calendars for the Elementary Christmas Program on Tuesday, December 9th in the Peoples Church Sanctuary starting at 7:00 PM. This will be a dress-up evening for the children in their Christmas Holiday Best! We look forward to a beautiful evening for all of your family and friends!! Watch for a flyer coming soon!!!:
Kids4Tennis – A sign-up paper will come home Monday for an after school tennis program. It will be on Thursdays (November 20, December 4, December 11 and December 18) at 2:45-3:45 P.M. on the blacktop. The cost is $39.00 and includes a FREE tennis racquet and 4 hours of lessons. Turn in the completed form to the school office by Wednesday, November 19th.
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Spirit Day is every Friday. Please wear your favorite FCS shirt.
HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEK!!!
11-16 – Happy ? Birthday Mrs. Devereaux
11-23 – Happy 7th Birthday Chloe Serimian
11-24 – Blessing Afternoon – 12:30 PM -2:30 PM
11-25 – Thanksiving Program 10:45 AM – SMC Main
11-26-28 – Thanksgiving Vacation
12-1 – Town Hall Meeting 6:30 PM- 8:00 PM – SMC Main
12-3 – Happy 7th Birthday Katherine Castiglione
12-5 – Elementary Drama “A Bag Full of Fables” 7:00 PM
12-9- K-6 Christmas Program 7 PM
12-11 – Secret Angel Party – 11:30 AM – 2:30 PM
12-12 – 1st Semester ends
12-12 – Skating Party at Cal-Skate – 9:30 AM-11:30 AM
12-15-1-2 – Christmas Vacation – Happy Birthday Jesus!
12-24 – Happy 7th Birthday Ashley Skricka
1-5 – School Resumes – Happy New Year!!!
Bible Verse – Nov. 17-21
In everything give thanks, for this is the will of God. I Thessalonians 5:18 15 pts.
Spelling – Lesson 19- Nov.17-21
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late
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cake
came
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day
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Christmas