Happy Holidays!!

Merry Christmas everyone!  Happy holidays to all!  What a special time of the year for spending time with friends and family.  May we all have a happy, healthy, holiday season!!!

This week we are going to focus all our ELA activities around this special time of the year.  Since the students are so excited about the season, we are going to use that energy for our lessons.

This week's spelling words are all holiday words!

elf, elves, snowman, reindeer, Santa Claus, Christmas, celebrating, mistletoe, sleigh, sledding, turkey, present, chimney, sweater, coal, ornaments, star, caroling, Grinch, snowflake, wreath, icicle, December, twenty-fifth, holiday

We will be reading "T'was the Night Before Christmas" this week and writing letters to Santa.

Merry Christmas!  Happy Holidays!!  Happy New Year!!!  to all.....

Mrs. Carr

December is here!

Excitement is definitely in the air.  There is an energy that is that is certainly electric!

It's beginning to look a lot like .......red, green, laughing, smiles, presents, snow, Santa, elves, turkey, stockings, anticipation.   What do these words tell you?  We call these "loaded" words.  They are packed full of clues as to what we want our readers to connect to....

English Language Arts class has been very busy.  Students have been working on recognizing the difference that word choice makes in their writing.  We have been identifying nouns, pronouns, verbs and adjectives.  We are learning how to write sentences that are bursting with descriptive details.  Recent writing prompts have been "Why You Should Come to My House for Thanksgiving", and a persuasive letter to Santa- asking for that perfect gift.

Our class has just finished reading the “Cricket in Times Square” and currently is reading "A Big-City Dream".  Don't forget... December book projects are due the last day of the school month (December 20th).

 

Spelling Wordlist:    thought, something, school, there, need, could, hand, important, don’t, far, your, high, again, once, they, year, than, enough, people, appear, celebrate, impressed

Enjoy this wonderful holiday season with your family!!!