Looking Ahead

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving! Here's a look at what's coming up. 

Important Dates 

• December 5: Santa's Secret Shop
• December 9: Christmas Program
• Deember 18: Christmas Party 1:15-2:15 pm
• December 22-January 4: Christmas Break 

Reading

We are getting close to the end of our second Clementine book. The students are really enjoying this series and have made many personal connections to the events in the book. We will continue our series by reading a third Clementine book when we are done with this one. 

Writing

We will shortly be wrapping up our Personal Narratives and be moving onto our Poetry unit. This week we will be talking about paragraphs, and moving into revising and editing our pieces to prepare for our final drafts. 

Spelling

List 10 is going home today. This week's words focus on consonant digraph sounds (ch, sh, th, and wh). While highlighting our words today, we made sure to discuss that in the word "sure" it sounds like there is an "sh" at the beginning, when really it's only an "s!"

Math

We are rolling right along with unit 3. Students are doing a wonderful job with weight, volume and mass in this unit and are being challenged with more story problems! This is great practice for them to use all types of equations and to put the correct label on their answers! 

Science

Our Plant Adaptations test will be on WEDNESDAY this week. I know this date has changed a couple times and I apologize. We will be reviewing more tomorrow. We will move into a Social Studies unit following our Plant test!

A couple other notes:

A letter went home today explaining Santa's Secret Shop. This year our shopping will take place THIS Friday, December 5th right after lunch. Students may shop for NO MORE than SIX people. There is a shopping list outline provided on the back of the letter sent home today. Money and lists must be turned in on Thursday, December 4th. All of this is explained in the letter. 

It's that time of year again!!
Our Bauer Elementary Leadership Team is proud to introduce our 2014 ornament sale. This year the money raised will be donated to the Caring Kids program at the Helen Devos Children's hospital. 

It costs just $2.00 to purchase one ornament, or you can buy three for $5.00, six for $10.00. 

*Each ornament will have a sticker attached to it. The sticker is a homework pass for your child to use on one sheet of homework. 

Ornaments are available until Dec. 12.
Please make checks payable to Hudsonville Public Schools. 

Thank you so much for your support!