D E C E M B E R
N E W S L E T T E R
the
Fellman Flyer
Frozen
The school will be attending the
Disney movie Frozen together the
week before vacation. This will be
a great community building
experience for the students of
Margaret Chase Smith School
before the winter break.
The Land of Stories
The Wishing Spell By Chris Colfer
Our new read aloud is The Land of Stories, The Wishing Spell.
This exciting and unexpected story invites students to take a trip
to the Land Of Stories with Alex and Connor, twins, who have
recently lost their father. This book is a great read aloud full of
twists and turns. We will be conducting character analysis of
Alex and Connor. We will be writing several opinion and
informational piece on this wonderful book.
Save the Date!
FROZEN
December 20
December 23
The school will be
going to the Strand
Theater to see the
movie Frozen.
Christmas
Celebration
Start of Winter
Vacation
Our Learning Now:
Here are some of the areas we are learning about
now and where we will be headed when we
return back to school January 2nd.
Reading
In reading we will be working on our reading
assessment called the Fountas and Pinnell Reading test.
We will also be working on Greek and Latin root
words, understanding the root will help us to break
down the word and understand unknown words.
Science
We are starting a unit on invertebrates. We will study
the different classification of invertebrates. Each
student will select an invertebrate to research. The
students will synthesize their research into a keynote
presentation to be shared with the class.
Writing
We will be using our reading to write opinion pieces
about The Land of Stories, as well as an informational
brochure. To end the unit the students will write a
fictional narrative concerning a fractured fairy tale. We
will also look at non-fiction narratives when
conducting our invertebrate research.
Math
We have started and will continue to work on our
Division unit. One of the most important tasks you can
do at home with your child is to study multiplication
and division facts. The faster the students are able to
solve these facts, the easier division will be for them.
We will be dividing in two different ways. The first is
the traditional algorithm; this is the way many of us
learned in school. The second is using a multiplication
menu.
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