Happy New Year!

Very first I want to say thank you for all the lovely things you sent in for the class's use and for me. I appreciated them so much!

FYI:

1. Next Tuesday the children get to have toy day in PE. They can bring one toy to play with.

2. Send in December's home reading sheet if you already haven't.

3. If your child has moved up in his/her reading level, you should be seeing a higher level book coming home in the leveled library bags.

4. Art has changed to 1:30 on Fridays.

5. MLK holiday is on Monday, January 19th. There is no school that day.

6. This Friday is the end of the second term. The following week I will get the progress reports completed and send home a copy to you. If you have concerns or questions, please come in and see me. Let's get these little munchkins going!

Curriculum:

Reading: We began "summary" writing this week. I'm glad we started early because it is going to be a challenge for the kids. They are used to retelling. Now they have to find main ideas and put them together.

Language: We are continuing our review and practice of phonics concepts. this week we are concentrating on silent e at the end of a word.

Math: We are still working on regrouping with addition. Most of the kids have the concept now. We'll continue on through the chapter. Next will be subtraction with regrouping.  The kids who have not been practicing their math facts are struggling now with the new concepts and figuring out the facts. Work with your child if s/he falls into this category.

Science: Next week we will begin our weather unit. It will run about 6 weeks.

Spanish: We finished up our days of the week study today. Next we will learn weather and season words to coordinate with science.