Hobbs Williams Elementary December Parent Newsletter What Were

Hobbs Williams Elementary December Parent Newsletter What We’re Learning… Kindergarten First Grade Reading: Describing Characters; Retelling; Making Connections; Inferencing; Big Idea; Recurring Phrases; Sensory Details; Genres: Realistic Fiction, Fantasy, Lullabies Writing: Letters to Santa; Elf on the Shelf; Beginning, Middle, End Math: Addition; Subtraction; Story Problems Science: Soil; Weather Social Studies: Traditions; Customs; Celebrations How can I help my Child? Read and Practice Word Wall Words Nightly Reading: Retelling; Making Connections; Making Inferencing Writing: Retelling events in logical order; Identify important facts or details in text, read, and heard Math: Comparing Numbers to 99 using >, <, and =; Skip counting by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s Science: Explore and describe water as streams, ponds, rivers, lakes, and geysers; Identify natural resources by exploring rocks, soil, and water used in patterns Social Studies: Holiday Traditions How Can I help My Child? Practice weekly sight words; Read 15 minutes nightly to increase reading fluency Second Grade Reading: Drama; Poetry Writing: Expository Math: Classifying and Sorting Polygons; Partitioning Objects Science: Identifying properties and sources of freshwater on maps Social Studies: Governing our Community How can I help my child? Please read with your child for 20 minutes nightly. Also ensure your child is present at school daily! Third Grade Reading: Expository Text Writing: Expository Text Math: Fractions; Multiplying 2 -digit by 1 -digit numbers; Multiplication and Division word problems Science: Weathering of Rock; Decomposition of plants and animals; Natural Resources Social Studies: Characteristics of climates/habitats; Research with student presentations How can I help my child? • Encourage your child to read 20 minutes nightly • Practice third-grade high frequency words • Ensure your child is present at school everyday Art & Music Performance: December 18 th at 6: 30 pm Fourth Grade Reading: Text Features; Fact and Opinion; Expository Text Writing: Expository Text; Revising and Editing Math: Input/Output Tables; Fractions; Multi-Step Problems Science: Changes to Earth Social Studies: Revolution and Historical Figures How can I help my child? • Read nightly for 20 minutes and practice Summary Hand on passages • Practice Multiplication Facts • Ensure your child is present at school daily

Fifth Grade Reading: Expository Text Writing: Expository Text Math: Fractions with all operations; Financial Literacy Science: Physical Properties of Matter; Mixtures and Solutions Social Studies: Free Enterprise in the United States Art and Music Performance: December 11 th at 6: 30 pm How Can I Help My Child? • Encourage your child to read nightly for 20 minutes • Practice multiplication facts Counselor’s corner This month’s counseling focus is all about showing compassion with our words and actions. The Kindness Crew will begin collecting toiletries to help our student and families in need. More information is to come. We will also be using Career Cruising across all grade levels to learn more about college and career options after high school. Kinder: Handling Waiting First Grade: Identifying Feelings Second – Fifth Grade: Showing Compassion -Your Counselor, Mrs. Thompson Specials Corner Music: This month in music, the Kindergarteners will be learning to use their voices to sing melodies up and down the scales. First grade will be introduced to reading music by learning about the lines and spaces. Second grade will explore the pentatonic scale using their voice and instruments. Fourth grade will focus on learning to play recorders. Upcoming Performances: 5 th grade: “Music at the Movies, ” Tuesday, December 11 th at 6: 30 pm 3 rd grade: “December Dreams, ” Tuesday, December 18 th at 6: 30 pm Art: Williams artists will be focusing more on the seven elements of art. Every grade level will learn or revisit this list of the components that make up visual art. The elements of art are: line, shape, color, form, texture, space, and value. We will also create a Christmas ornament! PE: For the month of December we will focus on the following: • • • Basketball Volleyball Soccer Safety PE reminders: 1. Everyone MUST wear sneakers for safety on their PE days!!! 2. Girls should wear shorts under dresses if they have PE that day. 3. If a student has a medical condition or injury, please send a note/medical excuse. 4. If student is missing more than 3 PE classes (one week) a Doctor’s note is required! 5. No big jewelry is allowed during PE for safety reasons, but can be taken off before class starts. Health Spot Nikki Lindsey, RN Welcome to December! I hope that you all are staying healthy. One way to stay healthy is by requesting that you keep your student at home if they are sick. The district guideline are listed for you to review. It is important for you to follow these guidelines to help maintain the wellness of our school family. The Dallas Care. Van will not be available to utilize for the months of December and January in Grand Prairie. It will be available again in February 2019. Clinic News Items: State required screenings are wrapping up during the month of December. If you have received a referral letter or call from the clinic for a failed test, please be sure you take care of this as soon as possible. If you have misplaced a referral for additional testing, please contact the clinic. District Sick Guidelines: • • • Important Dates… December 5 - Parent Workshop: Love and Logic December 5, 12, 19 - Boys Scout’s Meeting 7 p December 6 - Literacy Night 6: 00 -7: 30 p December 5, 12, 19 - Boy Scout’s Meeting 7 p Cafeteria December 11 - 5 th grade Music and Art Program at 6: 30 pm December 17 - Winter Party Fast Passes Due December 17 - Q 2 Math Summative (K-5) December 18 - Q 2 Reading Summative (2 -5) December 18 - 3 rd grade Music and Art Program at 6: 30 pm December 19 - Q 2 Science Summative (2 -5) December 21 - Winter Party 2: 30 -3: 15 pm December 24 -January 7 Winter Break • Signs or symptoms of a communicable disease that cannot be contained at school; Localized rash causing acute discomfort or systemic rash of undetermined origin as a sign of potential illness; An oral temperature of 100. 0 degrees or greater. All students must be fever free for 24 hours without the aid of fever reducing medication before returning to school. Signs or symptoms of acute illness, serious accident/injury; Vomiting (not related to a single event such as gagging, positioning, mucus, running after eating, or eating spicy food); All students must be free from vomiting for 24 hours without the aid of any medication before returning to school. Diarrhea of two or more loose watery stools; All students must be free from diarrhea for 24 hours without the aid of any medication before returning to school. Asthma symptoms that do not respond to prescribed medication or no prescribed medication is available for treatment of asthma symptoms; Diabetes with a blood sugar greater than 400 and positive ketones or inadequate supplies to treat diabetes at school; Uncontrolled coughing; Pink eye or purulent conjunctivitis (defined as pink or red conjunctiva with white or yellow eye discharge). The student must receive treatment for 24 hours before returning to school or provide a note from a health care provider stating that the condition is not contagious and the student may return to school; Live head lice or live nits. Student must be rechecked after treatment and be issued a note to re-enter class.