Reminders:
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	<li>The green and white Ray  School folder will come home only on Fridays full of notes for you to read.  Please read and respond appropriately.  Send the folder back on Monday.  This is a good way to send lunch money as well.</li>
	<li>The red folder will come home Monday with homework.  Please work on it a little bit at a time each day with your child and return in on Friday.</li>
	<li>Please send lunch/milk money for the week on Mondays.</li>
	<li><span style="text-decoration: underline">December is snack month for girls</span>.  Please send in a healthy snack, enough for 27 students.  We do have a peanut allergy so please be careful in choosing your snack.</li>
	<li>January will be snack month for boys.</li>
	<li>Ms. Travis Traveling Library books (in clear bag) come home on Wednesdays and should be returned Tuesdays.</li>
	<li>Library books (in the green bag) are chosen by the student and should be returned on Fridays.</li>
</ul>
Classroom Volunteers – Those who have begun the screening process are welcome to begin volunteering on a limited basis until the process is complete.  Please email if you would like to volunteer.  If you sign up to volunteer please let me know if you will be unable to come.  When I know volunteers are coming for choice time I plan things that need adult supervision.

Morning drop-off and Afternoon Dismissal – Please understand that 9am and 3:30pm are not good times for a conference.  Quick questions often turn into longer conversations and when several parents have quick questions the time spent in adult conversation grows.  I need to spend these times settling my students into their day and seeing them off.  If you have questions you can email me and I will get back to you as soon as possible.  If you would like a longer conversation please set up a conference for Wednesdays or Fridays at 8:30 am.  Students also need to be picked up on time after school at 3:30.

I will have a substitute on Tuesday, December 2 for professional development.

This week:
<ul>
	<li>In Math we will work on probability, balancing objects, counting and concrete addition and subtraction.</li>
	<li>In Reading we will continue exploring letters and sounds.  We will analyze words for ending sounds.  We will use shared reading to explore phonics and comprehension strategies.  We will continue to build stamina for reading to ourselves.  I will pull small reading groups to work on decoding and comprehension skills.</li>
	<li>In Writing we will continue to discuss stretching words to write them and planning details for our stories.  Students will continue to tell those stories through drawing pictures and writing words, when they can.  We will continue to talk about beginning, middle and end.</li>
	<li>For Handwriting I will introduce letters Q, G, S and A.</li>
	<li>For Science we will continue our fabric unit.  This will tie in with social studies as we study quilts and how they relate to different traditions.  We’ve been exploring texture.  They are keeping journals about their observations of how different fabrics feel.  Students are completing fabric collages.  They will be taking fabric apart and learning to weave this week.</li>
	<li>Students are getting very good at using I messages when prompted and sometimes unprompted.  Please encourage your child to use them at home so that they become part of their normal vocabulary.</li>
</ul>
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Important Dates to Remember:
<ul>
	<li>No School –Dec. 4, Dec 21- Jan. 1</li>
	<li>Holiday Assembly – December 15, 9:30 and 1:30</li>
</ul>
Homework

Math
<ul>
	<li>Homelink 3.15 Counting Fingers</li>
</ul>
Reading
<ul>
	<li>Find four things that start with the /k/– take pictures of the object &amp; bring to school on <strong>Wednesday</strong></li>
	<li>Make flashcards for the following sight words and practice them nightly: up, go, we
<ul>
	<li>Look for those words in your reading with your child and in the world around you.</li>
	<li>Create another set and play a matching game.</li>
</ul>
</li>
	<li>Listen to someone read aloud to them for ten minutes each day</li>
</ul>
<strong>Fill out reading log</strong>

Writing
<ul>
	<li>Complete reading response page for a book the student has read (or had read to him/her) this week.</li>
</ul>
<p align="center">Have a Great Week!</p>