"Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind.  To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas."  Calvin Coolidge

Have a wonderful holiday break!  Thank you for a fantastic year!  I look forward to 2015!!  :)

As a child, I was bonkers for Christmas.  The entire month of December, I couldn't sleep at night from anticipation."  Rosecrans Baldwin

This is our last full week of school before our holiday vacation.  I'm looking forward to a fun week filled with learning, hard work and holiday activities.

Our spelling rule this week involves the double vowel syllables -oa, oe and ue.  Students will have a Spelling Cafe choice each night for homework.

We will continue with our multiplication and division unit.  Students are learning the Associative Property, Commutative Property, and Distributive Property of Multiplication.  They solved problems using arrays and worked on skip counting.

Students are working on poems titled "Spreading Holiday Cheer" to share with families over the vacation week.  They are also making holiday crafts.

Our auction will be held on Friday.  Students have been working hard to earn marbles over the past four months.  Their marbles will be used like money to purchase various gifts, prizes and treats.

Have a wonderful week!  :)

"How did it get so late so soon?  It's night before it's afternoon.  December is here before it's June.  My goodness how the time has flewn.  How did it get so late so soon?"  Dr. Seuss

We started our week off by attending the fifth grade band and chorus concert in the gym.  We were all so impressed by the beautiful music that we heard from the fifth graders.  I encourage my students to follow a musical path if it interests them.

We will continue with our multiplication and division unit this week.  Students will solve number stories, make arrays,  and practice fact families.  There will be a one sided assignment each night for homework.

Our spelling rule this week involves the double vowel syllable groups ai, ay, ee and ey.  Students will have a Spelling Cafe choice each night for homework.

Our class will be making holiday cards for local Rockingham County Meals on Wheels program. Sadly, these may be the only cards received by the senior citizens this year.  I will be stressing the importance of spreading holiday cheer and giving back to our community.  I know my amazingly empathetic class will recognize the significance of creating thoughtful cards.

Scholastic book orders are due by Friday, December 12th.

Have a wonderful week!  :)

"The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event.  You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found?"
J. B. Priestley

We had a beautiful "spring-like" day here at LSS.  It's hard to believe that winter is coming with such warm weather.  Students jumped right back into the routine with many great stories to tell about their holiday break.

Our lesson in math today involved finding the perimeter of various shapes.  Students seemed to grasp this concept well.  We will be moving on to multiplication and division for the next few weeks.  Students will build arrays, practice multiplication number stories, work with fact families, and learn shortcuts for memorization purposes.  They will have a one-sided assignment each night for homework.

Our spelling rule relates to the consonant -le syllable and exception.  The consonant -le syllable can only be the last syllable in a multi-syllabic base word and it always has a consonant followed by the letters -le.  The letter e is silent.  When a word ends in -stle, both the t and e are silent.  Students will have a Spelling Cafe choice each night for homework.

Scholastic book orders are due on December 12th.  Our class code is HB244 when ordering online.

Have a fabulous week!  :)