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Movie Night
Friday, January 13th
Doors Open at 6:00
Movie Starts at 6:30
Slipper Day
Friday is also Slipper Day at School!
Food Drive
Student council food drive will take place on Jan. 16-20. Items from this food drive will be donated to 12 Baskets. The top class will receive a reward from the student council. More information to be sent home when we return from break.
Winter is Here!
Please make sure to send your child every day with a hat, boots, gloves, warm winter coat, and snow pants. We will be going outside as much as possible. We do not have a ton of extra items in the office to borrow and each time a coat or pants are borrowed, we have to take them home to wash. Don't forget regular shoes to wear while inside the school.
Reminder
Thursday, January 26th is a half day of school and there is no school on Friday, January 27th.
I'm not sure why, we have a goofy calendar this year.
Language Arts
We will spend a few weeks on Helen Keller. Next week we will also focus on MLK's life. The goal is to complete a couple informational writings as well. Spelling Test will still be on Friday though.
The next couple of weeks we’ll ask, “How do you know when story ideas are important?” We’ll read the biography of Helen Keller, who learned how to communicate with help from her devoted teacher. And we’ll learn about other ways to communicate in the informational text Talking Tools.
Target Vocabulary: curious, imitated, knowledge, motion, silence, illness, darkness, behavior
Phonics Skills: Words with long o (o, oa, ow) [open, coat, bow]
Vocabulary Strategy: Suffix -ly (means “in a certain way”)
Comprehension Skill: Main ideas and details—tell important ideas and details about a topic
Comprehension Strategy: Summarize— stop to tell important ideas as you read
We have reached the point in our math lessons where we are learning about composing and decomposing ones and tens when adding or subtracting. Just remember,
composing = carrying over
decomposing = borrowing.
They just call the process by a different name now. Students are also expected to draw pictures of the place value disks to show the process.
We will continue to practice this strategy through the rest of Module 4 and again in Module 5. We just finished Lesson 12 if you are using Zearn at home. It will be a good idea to practice on Zearn at home to reinforce the 2 strategies.
Decomposing
