Dec. 15-19th

Week 16

The weekend before last was a whirl wind weekend for the Smyers' family. My daughter Racheal graduated from University of Texas. I was so proud and amazed. On Monday when I returned to class and looked into your children's eyes it reminded me of Rachael at that age. It was just yesterday. So many wonderful memories.  

Christmas Week:

Reading: 
Christmas around the World
We will be rotating to different 2nd grade classrooms learning about how different countries celebrate Christmas.

Math: 
Fractions
(halves, thirds, fourths, eighths)
parts of a whole
parts of a set
(can be hard to understand)

Science:

water sources - fresh water and salt water

conserving water

reuse, recycling, reduce

Social Studies: 

obtaining information by using visual sources
(This sounds kind of odd but it important for students to understand how find information and then use it to learn.)

Spelling Words: 
no spelling words

Christmas Party

Our Christmas party is this Friday, December 19th. We will begin at 8:30. The party will be "Grinch" themed. We will be having breakfast. Please help by bringing fruit or a Grinch themed food (for the cleaver moms) on Friday morning. Please remember cut up the food items for easy serving.  I have asked a few moms to provide a few additional items. If you have any questions please contact me.

It would be awesome if you could come and help out.

We are planning on making a Christmas craft and having a puzzle exchange. Bring a wrapped 100 piece puzzle to the class by THURSDAY the 18th. If you are able to donate a extra puzzle I would greatly appreciate it.