Hello! We had a great week back after having the days off for the ice. We discussed and learned about the great contributions of Dr. Martin Luther King, JR. The students each wrote or drew something they "have a dream"for. It was wonderful to hear their ideas.  These projects are on display in the hallway and will go home Friday. 

Starting Monday, we are going to continue our third quarter unit studies as well as work on our individual IEP goals.

In reading:
Kindergartners and first graders will be learning about characters in books. We will be discussing similarities and differences in the characters experiences in the books. Our letter of the week is Dd and we will continue working on learning the first 10 sight words. I sent home note cards for them to study. 
Second graders will be looking at the author's purpose for writing a story. They will be working on words that have the 


In writing all grades will be writing/drawing an opinion piece. We will learn the difference between facts and opinions and then choose a topic to write about our opinion.

In math:
Kindergartners will be focusing on counting to 100 by ones and tens as well as comparing objects to 10.
First grade will continue to understand that 2 digits represent tens and ones and we will also learn about dimes
Second graders will be working on one and two step word problems and adding and subtracting within 20.

New spelling words and guided reading books will go home Monday.