Happy New Year! Today your child should have brought home the sharing letter for the month of January. Today we took time to write 'happy notes' to share with others.
Next week we begin the winter creative arts schedule. Hopefully we will get more snow! The children will be going outside on Wednesdays for an hour of cross country skiing. Please make sure they have winter gear every Wednesday.
Reading:
This week we continued to get to know the characters in our books. We learned how to notice not only what a character says, but how they say it. We also started to collect words to describe character traits.
Writing:
As we move into the second part of our nonfiction writing unit, the children explored two new structures of nonfiction writing: question & answer, and how-to books. They chose one of these types and began writing a new nonfiction book using this structure.
Math:
This week the children practiced using the open number line to solve comparing problems. They learned that they can jump forward or backward on the number line to solve these kinds of problems.
In our first Engineering task of the new year, the children were given marshmallows and toothpicks and work cooperatively to design an igloo!
Other Things to Ask Your Child About:
~The Fact Strategy Game
~New Year's Resolution song
~The Weeping Werewolf
Have a great weekend!
Katie
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