December+Happenings

Welcome to December!

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your reading makes it meaningful. || Writing is not a silent activity - SHARING our writing gives us purpose and value and helps us gain other ideas. || Solving problems is not just about the right answer but being able to process and communicate how you arrived at your answer. || Scientists wonder, investigate and prove ideas. Historians record history. (What happened yesterday?) || Exploring various holiday traditions with fiction and nonfiction texts Author's Point of View || Poetry- Powerful Thoughts in Tiny Packages Giggle Poetry Acrostic Poetry Writing Poetry 4 Kids Write Poetry Instantly || *Place Value to thousands different strategies to show understanding facts Southeast Region of the United States A Quizlet Study Guide is posted on Edmodo || Text to Self Text to Text Text to World to enjoy and understand to make sense of text to use schema (connections) and infer || Continue to review Grammar Links from August: Internet4Classrooms Language Skill Builders || **__Investigations Online Games and Activities__** __Parents: Make sure your child selects an activity that is most appropriate for where__ __they are with their mathmatical ability__ __and understanding.__ __Specific Suggestions BELOW:__ || Christmas Around the World || about characters and use text to support thinking questions may be answered and sometimes they are not but this strategy helps you to better understand and remember what you are reading. ||  || Cards Higher and Lower Internet4Classrooms Math Skill Builders || Little Explorers-Human Body || High Frequency Words Dolch Kit Divided into smaller lists 1200 High Frequency Words in order || Continue to review Grammar Links from August: Complete Sentences Punctuation [|Parts of a Sentence] Subject/Predicate Nouns Verbs List Punctuation Practice Nouns and Pronouns Singular and Plural Intro Singular and Plural from Roy Singular and Plural Quiz from Funbrain || **__3rd Grade Suggestions:__** Multiplication Multiplication Video Multi. Facts by Fact Family Multi.Review, Study, Drills, Test Facts The Timernator ||  || Scholastic's Global Literacy Campaign || Write a letter or email Santa Santa Website and Navigation to Links Santa's Elves Read "Twas the Night Before Christmas || Online Math Manipulatives || Our study of Maps and Geography will continue all year with periodic assessments and projects. Be sure and revisit || Storyline Online Bookflix Trueflix for at school only ||  || Early Finishers Project: Lemonade Stand Game || Sci4Kids PBS ZOOM - Science Activities from Chemistry to Engineering || Make Believe Comics Comic Master Pixton ToonDoo || Toy Shop Shopping || Try Science Online Experiments || Match The Fractions Johnnie's Math Page Fractions ||  ||
 * Reading We ARE Readers! || Writing/Grammar We ARE Writers! || Math We ARE Mathematicians! || Social Science We ARE Scientists and Historians! ||
 * Reading is not a silent activity- TALKING about
 * Reading Aloud:
 * Addition and Subtraction 3 digit's using
 * Understanding Multiplication-beginning
 * Division- How it relates to subtraction and multiplication
 * Fractions-Equivalent || Social Studies Alive - with Mrs. Straub
 * READERS:
 * Make Connections
 * Visualize
 * *Make Inferences
 * Wonder/Ask Questions as you read. Some of your
 * Spelling City/Vocabulary
 * Check it out!
 * Online Stories:
 * || Comic Creator basic
 * ||  || Fractions

> || __Ask someone at home to talk with you__ > __about any of the suggestions below:__ > We read everyday for work or pleasure. > Enjoying reading is the first step to opening doors to the world. > *Talk to others in your home about the different ways they use READING everyday. > *Reading the newspaper, magazines, books, cooking a > new recipe, reading-online > (from online sites approved > by parents.) > *Read with a younger or older siblings || __Ask someone at home to talk with you__ > __about any of the suggestions below:__ > *Do you have a writing journal or Writer's Notebook for home? > Madlibs > Word Games-Scrabble, UpWords > Talk about patterns of letters in > words. > Talk about the meaning of > different words. || __Ask someone at home to talk with you__ > __about any of the suggestions below:__ > Parents: Math Fact Fluency > What is math fact fluency? > Addition 1-20 > Subtraction 1-10 > and now beginning Multiplication 1-12 > Can your child respond in 3 seconds or > less when random combinations are called out? (Combinations up to 10, then continue > with combinations that equal/make 11, then add combinations that make 12, 13, 14 - all the way through 20.) > When driving in the car or doing household chores, call out random facts to your child. > Yahtzee - A great game to play together to practice beginning multiplication/skip-counting. > Do you know how to play Chess or Checkers? > (Strategy Games help promote problem > solving.) || __Ask someone at home to talk with you__ __about any of the suggestions below:__ Explore links together from this month and previous months. CONVERSATIONS ARE SO VALUABLE! ||
 * || __**Reading**__ __**Hints for Home**__ || __**Writing/Grammar**__ __**Hints for Home**__ || __**Math**__ __**Hints for Home**__ || __**Social Science**__ __**Hints for Home**__ ||