Happy New Year! I hope you all were able to enjoy the time off in some way with family and friends.

Welcome back to our school routine 🙂

NWEA testing for us will be Wednesday and Thursday morning. It’s important your child gets a good night’s sleep and eats breakfast either at home or here at school daily.

Spelling words this week focus on the letters “ur” “er” “ir” all making the same sound in words. clerk, third, first, burst, churn. The Dolch words: hurt, her, under, together, after

Our reading strategy this week will focus on using the illustrations to help the reading understand the text.

Our writing focus circles back to opinion writing. I’ll be combining a social studies topic here so the students will be writing their opinion about a law in Dearborn. They are expected to write 2-3 reasons to support their opinion. This unit is expected to take 3 weeks but I’ll be using different topics each time.

Social studies continues with learning about why governments need laws. That’s why it’s getting combined with writing.

We’ll be learning about the water cycle in science because many students are beginning to wonder where the water comes from that’s found on Earth.

Our new math module focuses on addition and subtraction within 200 and solving word problems to 100. Many strategies will be used to solve problems with a big push on 1 more, 1 less–only the digit in the ones place changes. 10 more, 10 less–only the digit in the tens place changes.

Enjoy the week!