Good morning.  I hope you are staying well and warm.  I have 7 of my darlings out this morning.  🙁

This week begins our second semester!  WOW, huh?

READING/WRITING Informational about POLAR BEARS.  I hope we have enough days this week because the kids are quite interested in this topic.  I am hoping to make a book for them to take home on Friday.

SPELLING-Second semester begins weekly Friday SPELLING TESTS. 

We begin with very easy words.  This week’s words include:  cat  sat  hat   I  see  can

If you will notice the words are from the very beginning of the year, some have the “at” chunk, and are words that they use in daily writing.  I still have some that use a lower case “i” when writing the pronoun “I.”  The pronoun “I” is ALWAYS capitalized.  I also reminded that the word “hat” has an “h” at the beginning, not an “n.”  Best to start now with flash cards (Dollar stores have 3 x 5 cards) to review.

MATH- We will begin Module 4, which deals with composing and decomposing numbers.  We will use manipulatives, drawings, story problems, and number bonds to compose/decompose numbers.

SOCIAL STUDIES-How do we learn about the past?  Books? Artifacts? ????

I will be putting a lot into each day.  Hold on!

Stay warm,

Mrs. Smith