Week of 11/26

What a fabulous long weekend - I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and restful time with family and friends. The holiday break is just around the corner, but we will still be busy little school elves in Room 208! 

Here is a look at our week ahead:

Language Arts:
This week's story: Cat Traps
Strategy: Drawing Conclusions
Skill: Realism vs. Fantasy
Phonics: initial r/l blends; -et, -en; plural nouns
Writing: adding detail sentences, complete sentences, capitalization, punctuation, 4-square organization of writing (these skills are ongoing)

Math:
We will begin a new unit in math - FRACTIONS! (SOL 1.3) Students will learn to identify parts of a set/region that represent fractions for halves, thirds, and fourths.

Social Studies:
We'll continue our study and comparison of past/present/future times this week, and finish with an assessment on Thursday. 

Important reminders/notes:

• The Toys for Tots drive is actually going on through THIS Friday (I incorrectly stated last week that it ended last Friday). The SHS Band is coming to CAES to collect the toys and play some music for us Friday afternoon!

• The Holiday Shop begins next week - volunteer forms are going home in the red folder this week. If you can volunteer your time, it would be greatly appreciated!!