Where has the month gone? I can’t believe Thursday is the first of December. Advent started this past weekend. Christmas will be just around the corner. This means we will be doing many special activities this month preparing for Baby Jesus.

I pray that everyone had a thankful Thanksgiving. I traveled to Casa Grande, AZ to visit my daughter and new son-in-law and had a restful and peaceful vacation.

Thank you for the extra help you gave your child with the math subtraction. Please keep doing math problems with them on your own. We will be starting multiplication next week. I will teach several strategies on multiplication and then Chapter 7 - 2, 5, 3 multiplication facts, Chapter 8 - 0, 1, 4 multiplication facts , Chapter 9 – 6, 7, 8 multiplication facts , and Chapter 10 – 9 & 10 multiplication facts. Help you child learn all their 2’s first, then the 5’s, then 3’s, etc. I really look forward to teaching multiplication. The kids are eager to learn multiplication.

Remember to keep reading every night, mark the calendar in their planner, and sign weekly. This does count as part of their reading grade. If they read every night it will help improve their fluency in reading. If you are asking them question about what they read this will help with reading comprehension. So if they are reading nightly and reading at school we should see an improvement in their reading fluency, comprehension and their love to read.

As I mentioned earlier the season of Advent started last Sunday. Most of the religion lessons during December will be about Advent.

I would like to thank Mrs. Dolson-Mukka for coming into the 3rd grade and teaching about vertebrates and invertebrates. The kids loved to watch one of their classmates dress up as a bug. He wasn’t to happy about it, but the kids had fun learning the parts.

I have the students work on one page a day in their cursive writing books. They are doing really good. If you can encourage them to practice cursive writing a little at home would be great. We are maybe through ½ the lower case letters. Then we’ll start on the capital letters.

Here is a look at 3rd grades calendar for the month of December.
December 9th – School Christmas Program at 6:30
Dec. 15th – Baby Jesus Party
Dec. 19th – Caroling
Dec. 20th – Christmas Store
Dec. 23rd – Classroom party
Watch for more information to follow.