Newsletter 12-11-15

Mueller Moments

1st Grade * Bauer Elementary * Mrs. Holly Mueller * hmueller@hpseagles.net

December 11, 2015

What a wonderful week we had together! It was wonderful to return this week and get everyone back into routine. It is hard to believe now that there is only one week until break. Time is flying! 

The Christmas program was wonderful last night. Thank you for making the effort to attend. Students are always so proud to perform for you!

• Holiday Party: Thank you to Jessica Noble for organizing our holiday party. It will be next Thursday at 2:45pm (we have started planning them on Thursdays just in case of snow days - looks like we will be just fine this year!). If you plan to attend the party, would you please let me know? We want to have an idea of the amount of help we will have. Thank you!

• Coming up:
• Star Student: Autumn Huizinga 
• Tuesday, December 15 - PE Day - Wear your gym shoes!
• Thursday, December 17 - 2:45pm - Holiday Party and wear green and red spirit.
• Friday, December 18 - PE Day - Wear your gym shoes! 
• December 21 - January 1 - Winter Break, No school

• Reading: This week we continued our study of characters. We looked at characters feelings and how they change in the beginning, middle and end of the story. We also learned how we can make connections between characters and ourselves. We started reading the second book in the Meet Addy series. (Meet Addy is my favorite read aloud, and since I was out for the majority of the book, I had to read this one with them!)

• Writing: We continued our opinion letter writing unit. This week we worked on selecting topics that are changes we would want to see in the world, using a mini small moment in our writing, show don’t tell, and using a graphic organizer tool to include all of the parts of a letter. 

• Spelling: We began finished unit #6 which was our assessment. These are in the writing portion of data binders. Be sure to go over these with your child. We began unit #7. Our new words are was, for, and he. 

• Math: We took our test for unit 3, our pre-test for unit 4, and learned some math games we will practice in math workshop in the coming weeks. Please be sure to have your child practice on xtramath.com if they have not in a while!

• Social Studies: We wrapped up our economics unit this week. Your child should be familiar with terms such as: producer, consumer, goods, services, and scarcity. Please use these words at home, especially as you think of Christmas wish lists! 

• We are short on a few classroom supplies. If you are interested in donating any of the following, we would gladly take them: Pencils, sandwich or snack sized ziplock slider bags (these are easier for students tackles than zipper bags), band aids and tissues. And if you are looking for stocking stuffers for your child, a new box of crayons isn’t a bad idea:) 

For your children,

~ Holly R. Mueller