1/2 Day this Friday Jan. 17. School dismisses at 11:45. No lunch will be served. No school Monday Jan. 20 and 1/2 day Tuesday Jan. 21–school dismisses at 11:45.

Due to these 2 short weeks, no spelling test this week. I’ll be using these 2 weeks to teach the one week’s worth of lessons. The test will be next week.

NWEA reading test this week Tuesday & Wednesday first thing in the morning. I was happy to see the seriousness and care students put into the math test so I am expecting the same for the reading one. But, please remember, these tests are only 1 of many used throughout your child’s school career to get a picture of their learning. As usual, please see that they get a good night’s sleep.

I’m also assessing students individually to get an accurate reading level=DRA reading level. Nice growth is being seen so far.

Library book check out is this Thursday. If books are at home, please remind your child to bring them back to school so they can check out new ones.

We’re about 1/2 way through our math unit of learning different strategies for adding and subtracting within 1,000. You can see from the homework, we’re getting into the more traditional subtraction strategy of borrowing/trading as it used to be called.

We’re finishing up our Social Studies unit this week and in Science students will be designing an experiment to show if water can create a canyon.

Enjoy your week!