Happy New Year and Welcome Back! However your break was spent with friends and family, I hope you were able to enjoy some time with love and laughter.

Please have your child return the packet this week. I hope they found it fun and got them thinking.

We are scheduled for the first set of NWEA testing this week Tuesday and Wednesday morning. Please be sure your child is on time for school because our time scheduled is first thing both days. We’ll begin with the math portion this week and take the reading portion next week Tuesday and Wednesday. Also please make sure your child gets a good nights sleep each night then has a healthy breakfast. Getting back in the routine of school can be difficult after a break but we’ll do it 🙂

We’ll continue our reading unit focusing on the question how can a story change depending on who tells the events? This is the strategy of point of view. We’re using one of my favorites this week: Stone Soup. The spelling words again are r-controlled vowels ear, eer, ere: year, near, clear, fear, ears, hear, deer, cheer, steer, here.

Math will continue with the skills of using different strategies to add and subtract 2 and 3 digit numbers.

Social studies will again pick up with learning about a community and how that community has changed over the years. I like to bring in Dearborn history.

Science also is focused on the Earth’s changes that shape the surface.

P.S. We’re still collecting plastic caps and paper tubes.

Enjoy your week 🙂