Week 17

Dear Parents,

         What a wonderful week we had before Winter Break. We finished up all our units and got all our work turned in! In math we finished up learning about our numbers to 999. We continued to represent them many ways, put them on open number lines and compared them. We also learned how to add 10 or 100 and to take away 10 or 100. Our assessment was taken on Thursday. In writing we finished editing our friendly letters and used an editing checklist. After break we will give our letters to the people we wrote them to. In reading we listened to some holiday stories and filled out our story maps. We also listened to the Polar Express and showed our learning in cause/effect and a story order exercises. In science we finished up our unit on rocks by completing a cloze procedure with our vocabulary and taking our unit assessment on Thursday. We had a wonderful time at our holiday party. The pancake breakfast was loved by all! We had fun making an ornament and playing holiday bingo. Our presents to you went home in wrapping paper and cards made by your children. They are so excited to give you these gifts! I wrote thank you notes to you (Sent home in your child’s daily folder) for all the wonderful gifts and kind messages you sent me. Your thoughtfulness is truly appreciated. I’m wishing you a wonderful break and a happy New Year! 

Here is a song made by the teachers of Coyote Ridge to make you smile:

 

12 Days of Christmas Video: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1W2ofb1F6vgalXoNVKARv8T1aXMvsiXtk/view?usp=sharing

 

From our librarian:

Hi everyone!  I have created a Holiday board .The board includes two read alouds, three games from ABCYA.com, two drawing instructions and a direct link to holiday code lab from Google and Google Santa’s tracker.  The Santa Tracker is full of holiday activities!  There is one released each day (red play button) but they can find the others as the scroll down to the bottom.  This site is only available during the month of December! 

 

You can find it here:  https://bit.ly/CREholiday

 

Week 15

 Dear Parents,

      This week in math we learned all about division. We earned that division is sharing something giving everyone or everything an equal amount. We also learned how to write a story problem representing a division sentence. At the end of the week, we began a skip counting book. Then we began focusing on counting hundreds, tens, and ones.

      In writing we worked all week on our expository paper about why we like our favorite holiday. We have wonderful reasons! Some of us tried using time order words to break up our reasons. We went back to add interesting words and details.

In reading we learned how to ask and answer questions before, during, and after we read. We read the story Going Places and took a comprehension test. We began researching Landmarks using the facts4me website.

       In Science we were finishing up our unit on Patterns of Movement. We made a movement flip book, wrote a CER about our knowledge ( made a claim, gave evidence, and a reason for our claim), took a closing in on Science assessment, and our post assessment.

 

 

Coach Ray says  it’s about time for the final survey for 21 day challenge. Please click the link below to and fill it out:

 

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1MJlEYiCqkDhD4-fsEIH5UEhvXC1b7VsIArcKpZjdwMc/present?slide=id.g9aacb81e7e_0_2

 

 

 

December, Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind

Thank you to all the families who participated in our virtual November Habit Newsletter activity! Don’t forget that if your family participates in ALL 7 Newsletters, you will be showcased in our school as a Lighthouse Family!

• December’s Habit of the Month is Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind! Please click here to view and complete the virtual December Newsletter. It contains information about Habit 2, a read-aloud video, discussion questions to talk about with your child, and a short activity to do at home. Please have this completed by next Wednesday, December 9th.

• December 9^th is also Begin With the End in Mind Day! We want to see the entire school wear GREEN for Habit 2 on Wednesday!
• We will be tracking grade level participation for completing the virtual newsletter. The grade level with the highest percentage of participation for December will receive a grade level prize! Congratulations to Kindergarten for having the most students/families participate in the month of November!