December News A Peek At What We Are Learning A Note From Your Teachers What’s Happening This Month December 4th-8th PTO Santa’s Gift Shop December 5th Cookies with Santa December 14th Amelon Music Program 6:00 December 21st Winter Break Begins January 3rd School reopens **2nd Nine Weeks Benchmark testing for all subjects will be December 6th-20th. Check agendas for more information. Students should read 15 minutes each night and study weekly spelling words We are reading The Best Christmas Pageant Ever for our Read Aloud Program Continue to study multiplication facts at home A Peek At What We Are Learning Reading Non-fiction (Main Idea/ Detail, Using text features, Author’s Purpose, Identifying new information, context clues, and drawing conclusions) Grammar Skills How-to Writing (topic sentence & sequencing events) possessives & contractions, prefixes & suffixes Math Relate multiplication & division facts through the fives table (fact family), Patterns, Equivalent periods of time (ex. 12 months= 1 year; 60 sec= 1 min. ) 2 digit multiplication Science Review Skills Social Studies Ancient Egypt (geography, inventions, physical/human characteristics) Contact Information sbondy@amherst.k12.va.us, bsites@amherst.k12.va.us, stilley@amherst.k12.va.us