I hope your children enjoyed some fun in the snow this weekend 🙂 Great fun being bundled up making snowmen, throwing snowballs then coming in for some hot chocolate!

Another short week with today’s 1/2 day.

We are beginning a new unit in social studies and learning about how citizens live together in a community. Our first lesson is about diversity, which is very appropriate since yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr. day.

We’re continuing our reading unit and learning about different characters point of view of the same event. Again, very appropriate to this week’s national holiday. Our spelling test this week focuses on the “air” sound in phonics spelling 4 different ways: hair, stairs, chair, care, share, square, pear, bear, wear, where. I am continuing to assess students for their current reading level using the district assessment pieces.The test will be on Friday. For our writing focus this week is an opinion piece. The topic will be to write your opinion about recommending a friend read the story Stone Soup. Students will take a stand and write 2-3 appropriate reasons from the story about if they would or would not.

Our math unit continues with learning and practicing different addition and subtraction strategies for 2 and 3 digit numbers within 1000. Students are working hard at learning this concept and are catching on to the “bundling/unbundling”.

Our science focus is developing a plan to show that water can create a canyon. Students worked in groups last week and will present their ideas this week. We’ll be doing an activity related to this idea hopefully this week.

Enjoy the week!