Week of November 18

Sunday Schedule:  Week 2, Day 2

This week's homework:  15 minutes of reading each night, 1 SpellingCity activity each night (new lists will be handed out on Sunday, November 18, spelling test will be on Thursday, November 29)

IXL Math for possible extra practice:  review type activities any D or K.1-K.3 (old practice: any A, E, F, S.8-S.15)

Classroom Happenings:
This last week our class enjoyed exploring non-fiction and digging deeper into how we can read non-fiction text with purpose.  Students practiced paying close attention to detail, noticing how non-fiction text features can help us better understand what we read. 

Our writing work is taking off, in the form on informational books!  Students have been excited this past week as they created their table of contents, wrote their introduction pages, and started writing chapters about a topic that they could "teach" someone else about.

Math Newsletters, Topics A-B and C went home this past week.  Please let me know if you are not seeing these come home with your student.

Reminders:
Discover Oman!  For this first round of Discover Oman our class will be going to the Bait Al Zubair Museum on Sunday, November 18.  Please note the appropriate attire for this type of field trip.  On the permission slip, you can use the Museum heading to find that students attending a field trip to a museum should be wearing comfortable shoes, long pants, and are allowed to wear any green, white, or red shirt in honor of National Day (or TAISM Polo).  (Note: This is also our PE day.  Students will attend PE that afternoon.  If you would like to send your student with the TAISM sports shorts to change for PE, you may do this.  Otherwise, on this date, long pants will be okay.  PE on this date will be outside.) 

For Omani Tent Day, you can see on the permission form that students are able to dress in Omani National Dress on this day (moved to Thursday, November 29). 

Chaperones!  If you would like to help chaperone for the Bait Al Zubair Museum on Sunday, November 18, please let me know via email so I have an idea of the number of chaperones we will have on this date.  The more the merrier!!

If you're looking for the 2AN Schedule, it's now posted on the Blog!  Be sure to also check the actual blog website from time to time (taism4an.blogspot.com) as the Upcoming Dates Section at the top of the blog might come in handy to fill calendars out with dates a bit ahead of time!

Birthday treats!  Let me know if you'd like to bring in birthday treats for the class!  We have 17 students in the class that are always welcoming of treats.  :)  We will typically have birthday treats at 10:15am with our snack time.  So, if you can drop them off in the morning before snack, we will enjoy them with snack.  If not, let me know so I can plan for another arrangement.  (Note:  We do not have a peanut/treenut allergy in our classroom, but we do have a few students that are to avoid nuts and beans.)