First, I would like to wish you all a Happy Holidays. Enjoy time with family and find time to relax during this holiday break! What a surprise the snow day was on Tuesday! It did throw a bit of a wrench in my plans to bring closure to projects and units before break, but we are rolling with it. Here are quick notes related to language arts/creativity groups: The second round of third grade language arts time wrapped up today with a literature circle based on the book When Marian Sang based on the real life of Marian Anderson, a famous opera singer who fought against segregation to achieve her dream. This was a practice for third graders to understand the different jobs for literature circles so that in February we are ready to read a full novel and lead discussions in small groups. Fourth grade will pick back up with language arts time with me after the holiday break. Remind your fourth grader that they have projects based on Bud, Not Buddy that are due on January 4 when we are back together. Fifth graders literally did wrap up our latest unit on poetry today. I hope you will be pleased Christmas morning when you get your first glimpse of a little secret we have been working on for the last few weeks. There are some amazingly creative kids in that group. Below you can see some pictures of Santa's Workshop today during our "wrap up!" One thing I would request of you over Christmas break is to please work with your child - 3rd, 4th, and 5h graders - on their basic facts. We are using XtraMath.org this year to practice basic facts and many of the students are still trying to pass their addition facts. They must pass addition to get to subtraction and then multiplication. I would love for them to be done with addition and subtraction. If you could have them login to their account even 3-4 times during break, that would be awesome. Each time they login, it only takes about 5-10 minutes to run through a session. The kids know how to login from their computers (and they SHOULD know their four-digit login.) I have also sent them with a flyer reminding them. This flyer also has information for how you can sign up to get updates on their progress. Any help with this would be wonderful! Check out XtraMath at https://xtramath.org/#/home/index Please feel free to check out the Web Resources portion of the GT website too for other useful links for keeping math skills up during the two-week break. These are games that can be fun as well as educational if you don't mind your child having some extra screen time. The third grade page has some great games for working on basic multiplication fact mastery. http://traceybean.weebly.com/web-resources.html Lastly this week, I have a request. I mentioned that I have been approved for a grant for engineering projects for the spring semester. Some of these projects require some recycled materials that I would love some help collecting. If you have any of these materials in your recycle box, can you begin to gather them for me to add to my collection? We will be needing: * empty plastic water bottles * cardboard (cut into 2X8 strips, 2X4 strips, 8X8 squares, 4X5 rectangles) * paper towel tubes or wrapping paper tubes
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