Reading: This week we will be reading the story; Learning To Swim. The selection test will be Thursday
Spelling: Unit 3 Lesson 2 Using just enough letters. Final test will be Friday. Our classroom spelling bee to select a representative for the county spelling bee will be Wednesday, Dec. 9th.
Grammar: Unit 3 Lesson 2 Verbs, Objectives, and Subject Complements, test Friday
Writing: We will write a set of rules, and learn how to eliminate wordiness. The students have been reading their DAR essays out loud to the other students. We will continue to work on them. The completed essay is due Friday Dec. 11, 2009
Math: We will continue with Chapter 1-lesson 1.5 with a test on chapter 1 on Wednesday.
Social Studies: We are working on Chapter 4
Science: Test on chapter 5 on Wednesday.
Religion- We will be finishing up the work on the saints this week. Each student has a study guide that they may take home and review. We will review and play a ’saint bingo’ game and then do a quiz on Wednesday or Thursday of this week.
In addition, WVU has donated some tickets to the girls basketball game on Saturday Dec. 19 at 7pm in Morgantown. With the tickets that I have you only pay $1.00 to get into the game. Any parent who would like tickets please let me know, they will be on a first come first serve basis.
Classroom News -
We will have Mass on Tuesday at 12:00.
If anyone would like to send in cleaning supplies for our classroom it would be greatly appreciated. (Clorox Wipes, Lysol Spray, etc.)
We are collecting canned goods for Christmas food baskets. Each grade is asked to bring in a specific canned food. The fifth and sixth grades have been asked to bring in canned peas and cranberry sauce. We will continue collecting cans through December 18. The upstairs classes ( 3rd, 4th, and the 5th and 6th combined) are competing to see which class brings in the most cans. The grade(s) which wins will receive a reward.
Santa’s Secret Shop will be held December 8th-10th. Items will cost ranging from $0.50 to $1.50Santa’s Shop will be opened these three days. Everything available will cost between 50 cents and $1.50. On the first day, the grades will have a scheduled time to go. During this time, the students may purchase Christmas gifts for whomever they wish. Please make a shopping list with your child and send the list and money in a sealed envelope. The shop will also wrap each child’s purchases. Only children who bring money to shop will return on the following two days
Our annual Christmas Play will be held on Friday, December 18th. Please be working on your play part.
The toy drive, mitten/scarf/hat drive, and the collection for the angel tree will end on Friday, December 11th. We ask that everyone send in their donations to make Christmas a little more special for those in need.
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The students have exchanged names for a Christmas gift exchange. Along with a student’s name for the gift exchange they also received a list of ideas for gifts. These gifts should cost between 8 and 10 dollars. Please stay within this price range. Our class gift exchange will be Dec. 22.