Room 7
November 30, 2007
Friday’s Message:
Off to the Circus
Before starting off to see Circus Oz we learned a little geography. We identified the seven continents and found the island continent of Australia. I told them Australians sometimes refer to themselves as “Aussies” and to Australia as “Oz.” This is the only prep I could give the class (it’s my first time going to see this) besides theater etiquette. I told them it would be a fun, exciting day! I hope they are excited to tell you all about it! (You’ll find out about at least one of the acts because they have to write about it for homework. )
Thank you Alex A.’s, Grant’s, Jacky’s, Lucas’, Mari’s, and Sam’s parents,
Glenn, Peggy, Blanca, Yas, Lucy, and Dolly for driving and chaperoning us to the performance and park. We hope you enjoyed the day as much as us. Thank you.
Root Vegetable
We have been learning about plant parts we eat. Next Wednesday, we will be making root vegetable soup. Please bring one whole washed “root” / tuber vegetable to school on Monday. so we can do a variety of science, math , and language art activities prior to cutting the vegetables and making the soup.
You may want to take your child to the produce / grocery store this weekend so s/he can select his/her root vegetable. We’re hoping for a variety of root vegetables for our tasty soup!
Conferences
The following conferences are scheduled for next week.
Reese Monday Dec. 3 at 3:00
Aria Tuesday Dec. 4 at 3:00
Keziah Thursday Dec. 6 at 3:00
READING
Read and record in your Reading Log.
WRITING
Many special occasions are celebrated in December. Write about a holiday you celebrate with your family. Name the holiday and tell what special activities you do. Write complete sentences.
MATH
We’ve been counting by 5’s and adding on 1’s to get to specific number. We used the five and one pound weights your child brought to school to show the weight of each student. (Check out our hall bulletin board. Your child can tell you what we did.) Students also drew themselves and used tally marks to represent their weight.
This week’s homework is to choose a dozen numbers from 20 to 100. (Your child can cut out those numbers from food ads or other advertisements and/or just randomly choose a variety of odd/even numbers.) For each number have your child make the
tally marks that represent it.
Your child is welcome to do more than the twelve numbers and/ or a couple higher numbers if s/he wants.
CIRCUS ACT
Write about one of the circus acts. Describe it. Tell what was so amazing and/or what you liked about it. What did the people do? How many people did the “trick”? What happened to the music, sound or lighting during the act?
Draw a picture of the act you wrote about.