Good morning!

We are continuing to settle into a nice routine and welcomed a new student, Abdul, Friday. A note will be coming home today regarding socks needed for a science activity. Please ask your child about it. We will be doing the rock painting activity this Wednesday afternoon. If your child has not brought in a rock, please have one in by then. Please remember 1/2 day this Friday. No lunch will be served at school.

Our spelling words this week focus on the letter o sounds: fox, pop, lock, cone, poke. The Dolch words: open, old, cold, those, stop

We will begin a new writing unit–opinion writing. Students always like this genre. One way you can support them in this area is to always ask the question “why?” do they like or not like something such as a food choice, game, etc. Students really need to be thinking about their reasons why.

Math this week will focus on using doubles the help with adding and subtracting. Using doubles +1 strategy then get into even and odd numbers review.

One of our reading strategies this week will be discussing how a main character responds to a major event.

We continue to discuss and compare/contrast different types of communities, urban/suburban/rural.