Week 15

Hello B1 Families,

Welcome Back! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving. We have a busy three weeks before Winter break begins. We will be creating our annual Gingerbread houses soon and having a Christmas party on Friday, December 19th. 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Gingerbread Houses: Please read the pink paper being sent home with your child Monday regarding our upcoming gingerbread house project. We will need 5 volunteers to help fill candy orders for our Gingerbread houses. Volunteers should arrive by 8:30 AM on Wednesday, December 17th. This process usually takes about 30-45 minutes. Volunteers will be filling bags with candy supplies for each student. Students will be making their Gingerbread houses the following day. Please click this link if you are interested in volunteering: Gingerbread House Bag Filling 

Inclusive Schools Week: Please see the flyer below for our Inclusive Schools Week spirit days for THIS WEEK. 

See's Candy Fundraiser: Our See's Candy fundraiser is still ongoing. Support Tierra Linda by purchasing See's Candy through our annual fundraiser. Flyers were sent home prior to Fall Break. The last day to submit orders is Friday, December 5th.

OUR WEEK AT A GLANCE

Math: This week, students will continue working in module 3. Throughout this module, students will apply multiplication and division concepts, representations, and strategies from module 1. They use the commutative, distributive, and associative properties to help them multiply and divide. Students advance their representations to more abstract arrays and tape diagrams and begin to use a letter to represent an unknown quantity. Students will be doing lessons 7-10 this week. As a reminder, we will have our multiplication test on Friday. Please continue practicing multiplication for at least 10 minutes daily. 

Reader's Workshop: Students will be working on unit 4 week 2 in our Comparing Points of View book. Our focus will be answering the essential question: What makes people view the same experience in different ways? Students will also be learning about reindeer this week! They will read a book about reindeer and then write about what they learned using text evidence. They will focus on reindeer habitats, diet and adaptations. 

Writer's Workshop: This week we will write a Winter acrostic poem.

Science: Students will be learning more about trait variation. Students will continue to utilize our Handbook of Traits book to identify how traits vary among different species. This week students will be observing different wolves.

Social Studies: We will continue with Week 21 in our Studies Weekly curriculum. Lesson 21 will teach students about using charts, reading maps, and understanding data. This lesson will discuss the population and how some areas are more populated than others. 

P.E.: Please dress appropriately on Monday for P.E. every week. 

REMINDERS

• Return signed Weekly Red Folder Tuesday, December 2nd. 

• Daily 20 reading log due on Friday, with a parent/grown up signature

• Every Wednesday is 2pm dismissal

• Sign communicator daily

• Wear House Colors every Thursday 

  • Hawk Spirit Day every Friday

Thank you,

Mrs. Harmon