January 9 - 14th

Happy New Year to all of my students and their families!  I can't believe how quickly the last 4 months have gone.  I'm looking forward to a wonderful new year of laughing and learning with your child!

Curriculum Update

Language Arts

To kick off the New Year we read a great story called "Squirrel's New Year's Resolution" by Pat Miller.  Squirrel doesn’t know what a resolution is, but happily Bear the librarian explains it quite well, both to her and to the book’s audience. Squirrel then visits her forest friends to see what resolutions they have planned and hopes she’ll be able to think of one for herself. This mentor text inspired the class to make their own New Year's Resolutions and Goals for 2017.

During Writing Workshop the students worked on setting new reading goals for the New Year. Their writing will be displayed next week for everyone to enjoy.

Math

This week in math we covered the following goals:

- Subtract 2- and 3- digit numbers - without regrouping
- Subtract with regrouping using base ten materials and using the standard algorithm

 Science

We started our Hearing and Sound Unit in science this week.  I began the unit by reading the story "The Listening Walk."  This is a story about a father and child that take a walk together and listen to the sounds around them.  Then our class went on our own listening walk to identify the sounds we hear inside the school, as well as outside.

The students also started working on their "Hearing and Sound" lapbooks.

  

Social Studies

The students did a wonderful job demonstrating their knowledge of India on their "Show What You Know" poster. 

Art

The students started their "Birch Trees in Winter Watercolors" on Friday. They will be finishing them up next week.

Congratulations to Mr. B for being chosen as Student of the Week!