Nov. 22

There are no spelling or vocabulary words because every 6^th week in language arts we take unit test and do unit projects.  So, just enjoys reading with your child this week.

We have had a fun few weeks. We ended our study of the continent “Africa” by eating rice, beans and a mixture of flour and salt, which we fried. We started our traditions and cultural unit off by having Nataanii’s mom come and speak to us about her Navaho culture. We also had pumpkin pudding and read stories about the first Thanksgiving. This month we wrote poems on gratitude. We took a unit test in reading and are almost ready for our math test on place value.

In about one week we are starting our “Consumers and Producers” unit in Social Studies. I give the children class money for the work they do in class. They use this money to buy items at our Christmas store. We get the items to sale and buy for our store from things no longer needed at home. The students can start to bring items that you would throw away or give to the D.I. to use at our Christmas Store. Students can also be a produce and make pictures or simple items to sale at our store. The rules are:

1. No baked items

2. They cannot spend real money on items to bring items to our store.

3. The items need to be in somewhat good condition.

4. The items have to be something no longer needed at home.

Some examples are:

I cleaned out my closets and found stuffed animals, old scarfs and some jewelry that I no longer want so I am brought them to sale. Once I had a boy make rock paperweights and he painted and glued eyes on them or necklaces from plastic beads.