December Highlights

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas in primary this month! The primary teaching team will attend the last Math Foundations conference this week; we have missed being in the classroom but have gained a wealth of information that we are excited to share with the kids. We will start posting strategies and techniques on this blog to help you, help your child at home. Most importantly we are teaching "outside the algorithm" and helping students deepen their understanding of place value and number manipulation. Of course we have a lot going on with literacy too, and we are constantly assessing and re-evaluating groups and placement. Our themes this month are gift-givers and Christmas. We have planned a trip to attend the Moravian Candle Tea at Old Salem on December 9th; unfortunately, due to limited tickets and reservations we are not be able to invite parents to join us. However, we are encouraging all families to join us at school on December 19th at 1:15 for our author's tea when we will unveil our class book, Christmas Is... Immediately following the tea we will have our class Christmas party. Josiah's mom, Kara Deese is overseeing this party. If you are interested in volunteering to help, please contact her. We hope to see you there!