Hello families,

The students have been so excited about the snow! Here are our plans for the week.

Reading:

We have been reading stories, and this week we will use the illustrations to describe the story elements (characters, setting, and major events). We will also look closely at words and phrases that authors use to appeal to our senses. This makes reading stories more interesting and vivid. Once again, I want to stress the importance of your children reading from their bag of books at home. Some children are making tremendous gains in reading and writing, and this is my goal for the entire class. Let’s continue to work as a team so that your child becomes strong in reading, writing, speaking, and listening.

Writing:

We have written two narratives so far; one from the perspective of a butterfly. We explained the butterfly life cycle by writing a story about its stages. We also chose a character from The Three Little Pigs and wrote a story from that viewpoint. We are working on adding details and publishing those now.

Math:

We are continuing to identify fact family addition and subtraction statements and solve word problems. We are also learning to identify the missing numbers on a number grid. We do this by looking for patterns in numbers.

Spelling
Words
1. form
2. corn
3. torn
4. more
5. store
6. core
7. went
8. are
9. came
10. ride