All parents are invited to our Holly Jolly breakfast on Wednesday, December 21st at 8:15.  We will have breakfast type food to munch on and then do a small, festive craft together. 

Here are some ideas for foods to bring:

• Breakfast casserole
• Muffins
• Breakfast sandwiches
• Biscuits and Jelly
• Juice
• Hot chocolate
• any type of specialty dish you would like to share with the class

Please email Mrs. Pynes at katymare@yahoo.com to let her know what you would like to bring that morning.  Thanking you in advance and the children and I look forward to seeing you.

Rachel’s Challenge/Save It Forward Food Drive

 So far we have had a wonderful response to our food collection for needy families here in Cobb County. We will continue to collect boxed and canned food until the 100^th day of school (Jan. 27^th), so please keep those donations coming! For each donation a student brings in, they receive a link to add to our Rachel’s Challenge Chain for their act of kindness. Our class has collected 74 cans thus far!!!!!  Thank you for your generosity!

Assessments:

Over the next few weeks I will begin assessing your child for the next report card.  Below are the subject areas and standards in which your child will be assessed.

Reading:

Recognizes 100 or more sight words (sight words are listed on the blog)

Reads a text (Level E/8 or higher) independently with expression, comprehension at 95% accuracy

Retells a story from beginning, middle, and end with details

Identifies the main idea of a fictional story

Writing:

Generates ideas, develops a rough draft, edits and revises

Maintains a focus with supporting details

Correct punctuation

Neat and legible handwriting

Math:

Place value up to 99

Addition and subtraction facts to 12

Different coin combination up to $0.50 and combination of bills up to $20.00

Compares and contrasts 2-D and 3-D figures

Science:

Magnets - how they attract and repel (like poles repel and different poles attract), objects that are attracted and repelled

Sound – different pitches (high, low) and volumes (loud and soft)

Social Studies:

Contributions and character traits of historical figures - Thomas Jefferson, Lewis &Clark and Sacagawea

Identifies and describes landforms - mountains, deserts, valleys, plains, plateaus and coasts

From Administration

Dear Parents,

When devising our school supply list for the current year, we tried to be very cautious in asking for supplies. Each school year all grade levels combine a few supplies to one central storage area. With the rapid change in weather, we are finding ourselves in need of a few community school supplies. It would be greatly appreciated if each family could send in some Kleenex, Clorox Wipes, Ziploc Sandwich and Snack size bags.