Ms. Fetters and Ms.

Ryans
December Newsletter
Newsletter Date 12/1/2014

E-mail: afetters@colonial.k12.de.us

Important Dates
Early Dismissal Day PD for
Teachers
Friday, December 5

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Holiday Shop for students

December 9th at 12:45pm
Winter Concert (and Ms. Ryans
Last Day!)
Friday, December 19th at 11:45am
Polar Express Day- Students Wear
Pajamas

Monday, December 22nd

No SchoolWinter Break

Reminders

Check and clean out your

childs blue folder each day.
It is getting colder outside!
Make sure your child is
wearing a heavy winter coat.
We will not be going outside
if the temperature or wind
chill is below 32 degrees.
Please have your child
practice tying their shoes,
buttoning their pants, and

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The Daily 5
For December and the rest of the year, we will be
starting something in ELA called the Daily 5. It is geared
toward small group discovery activities that will
strengthen the students understanding of the letters,
phonics, and sight words that we cover during whole
group time. There are five different centers that the
children will be working at:
1. Read to Someone- the children will read to
each other using the words or the pictures in the
book
2. Listen to Reading- the children will listen to a
story on tape and then complete a book review
3. Meet with the Teacher- a small group of
children, divided by ability, will meet with the
teacher to work on skills they need assistance
with
4. Work on Words- there will be activities for the
children to complete relating to our most
common words
5. Writing- the children will complete a writing
prompt using their sight words and phonics skills
It is important that the children work independently
during the Daily 5 because the teacher is meeting with
a group, so we have been working really hard with the
students on remaining focused and working
independently. You can help by reminding your child to
be mindful while working and by practicing having them

Wilbur Elementary
School Address: 4050 Wrangle Hill Rd. Bear, DE 19701
School Phone Number: (302)832-6330 Room Number: B-1
Class Website: www.msfetters.weebly.com

Word Wall
We will continue learning how to
Words

write and recognize certain words

that are commonly seen in the
English language. Here is our list
of words we have learned
already, and ones we will learn
this month. Have your children
try to find these words in
magazines or books, and practice
17. you
writing
1. I them. 9. me
2. A

10. not

18. that

3. my

11. and

19. it

4. the

12. can

5. go

13. get

6. to

14. in

7. like

15. is

8. of

16. name

Important Notes

Homework will be the family

project of A Snapshot of Your
Winter Break to be sent home
on the 22nd

Thank you for all your support

during this first half of the
school year!

Letters We Are Learning

Each week we learn a new letters sound and learn to
identify it when we see it in print. Currently we have
learned, or will be learning, the following letters:

7. H

12. R

8. J

13. O

9. L

14. S

10. M

15. T

11. N

This Months
Highlights
Language Arts
We will be continuing our work with the letters
and letter sounds, as well as segmenting words.
We will also be focused on dictation and writing
words. For writing, we are emphasizing
beginning sentences with a capital letter, finger
spacing between words, and ending the
sentence with proper punctuation.
Math
In math we are continuing with measurement as
well as identifying and representing numbers.
We will also be working with building numbers
and then changing it to another number by
counting on or counting backwards.
Science
In science, we have finished up our unit on
trees, but will continue to check out the conifer
trees! Ask your child the difference between a
Social
Studiestree they should be
conifer and
a deciduous
able to tell
In you!
social
studies we will begin
our unit on holidays around the
world. We will talk about what
holidays and celebrations are.
We will then extend our focus to
what people around the world
celebrate during this time of
year