- Reading with a storyteller's voice
- Notice how voice changes with punctuation marks
- Begin Retelling unit:
- focus on setting and characters
- tell details in sequence
- Reread stories for fluency and sense
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- Check your child's folder every night for notes and homework.
- Remember to read with your child each night and fill in the star paper!
- Dress your child appropriately as the weather gets colder!
- Label all of your child's clothing
- Send in a healthy snack everyday!
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- Dec. 14th - Report cards distributed
- Dec. 20th - Winter Party
- Dec. 21st -1/2 day of school
- Dec. 22nd-Jan.1st Winter Recess
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- count change (pennies, nickels, and dimes)
- review time to the hour and half hour
- brainstorm writing topics about your child's life
- tell number stories
- look for signs of Winter
- Ask about your child's day
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- beginning, medial, and ending consonant sounds
- syllables
- double consonant endings in words : -all, --ill, -iss, -uzz, etc.
- review short vowels
- /l/, /e/, /z/, /y/, ea spelling for /e/, /w/ and wh for /hw/
- practice word families for -ar, -ut, -ed, -ill, -all
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- counting change (pennies, nickels, and dimes)
- even and odd numbers
- Adding and subtracting on the number line
- Telling time to the half hour and quarter hour
- Frames and Arrows
- Addition Facts
- Using a Timeline
- Number scrolls
- Thermometer reading
- Measurement - nonstandard (___'s foot, paper clips, digits, etc.) and standard units (in. and cm.)
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- spinning/rolling experiments
- Share Lenape knowledge with 4th grade class
- hibernation
- bears
- winter themes
- gingerbread exchange (learn about regions in US through letter exchange)
- Open Circle : how to handle double D "dangerous and destructive" and annoying behaviors
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- brainstorming for writing ideas
- choosing a topic
- writing using phonics cues
- using full sentences
- using proper punctuation
- writing with expression
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