Scholastic Book Fair is Next Week!

SMS will hold its annual Scholastic Book Fair from Monday, November 28th through Friday, December 2nd. Our class will be book shopping on Wednesday, November 30th from 11:15-11:45 am. If you would like to preview the available books with your child prior to this date, you can see all of the available titles here!

Parents are more than welcome to join us as we book shop on Wednesday, and the book fair will also be open for the following hours if you would like to do your shopping at another time:

Book Fair Hours:

Monday, Tuesday, Thursday: 8:30 am-4:00 pm

Wednesday 8:30 am-6:30 pm

You will also be able to shop online Monday-Friday if you are not able to make it to SMS and would like to shop with your child. As always, you are more than welcome to send your child to school with money on Wednesday so they are able to shop on their own. If you are available to volunteer at the book fair, there is a sign up on the Book Fair Site, and I know your help would be greatly appreciated! 

Not only does the book fair help to get great books in the hands of students to bring home, but it also raises money to get great books and literacy programs for our school. Thank you for supporting our reading!

What Time Is It?

This week in math, we have been working very hard on telling time. We talked about the two types of clocks: digital (which lists the hour and the minute) and analog (a round clock with an hour hand and a minute hand that point to the time) . 

While many of us have digital clocks on our many devices and around our home, we talked about how many public places like our school, the library, and stores usually have an analog clock, so it is important to learn how to tell time on an analog clock.

On an analog clock, the shorter hand is the hour hand and the longer hand is the minute hand. When reading the hour, we either look to the number the hour hand is pointing to or to the number that is just to the left of the hour hand when it is in between numbers. When reading the minutes, we look at the number the minute hand is pointing to and count by fives from 1 until we reach that number. For example, we would count the minutes on the clock above by starting at 1 (5 minutes) and counting by fives until we reach the 11 (55 minutes). 

This clock is showing us that it is 5:30!

We also learned that each time happens twice a day: once at the am time and once at the pm time. All times between midnight (12:00 am) and noon (12:00 pm) are am times and all the times from noon to midnight are pm times. So, am is early morning and morning and pm is afternoon and night time.

We played some really fun math games on the smart board to help us practice telling time as well as learning which times are am and pm times. You can play these games at home by clicking here:

AM or PM?

Stop The Clock!

Challenge your family members to see who can tell time the fastest!