Happy Friday!

Boy, the weather sure has changed! Please make sure your child is bringing a coat, hat, gloves, etc. to school on cold, windy days like this. We will go outside for recess unless it's raining or below freezing.

Here's what's going on in the classroom:

Language Arts: We have started our new unit, "Reading Social Studies Texts". This week we started with "before" reading strategies... setting a purpose, previewing the text, and planning how we're going to read carefully. We also began "during" reading strategies... finding text features, answering our purpose questions, and changing our predictions. Next week, we'll be doing lots more of this with texts written at your child's reading level.

Social Studies: Our Economics unit continues with "Econ" videos. We have covered scarcity, opportunity cost, and consumption. Next week we'll be looking at production and interdependence. Please ask your child about all of these economic terms. They should be able to define them and give examples. I'm trying to send some homework home with each idea so you can see what we're doing.

Writing: Our Writer's Workshop continues with lessons on "Excellent Endings". Each student is looking for ways to end their writing pieces that makes sense with its beginning.

Math: If your child has me for math, we have finished our first quarterly assessment. We have also taken the second quarter pre-assessment. This will enable me to see where my focus should be for this quarter. I will still be sending homework home to review skills from the first quarter, along with the second quarter. On Monday, your child will be bringing home a list of skills that will be covered in the second quarter. Please review this list periodically with your child so you know what we're working on.

Cursive: Our next letters will be j and p.

Thanks to all of you who check over homework and initial the agenda. We had TWO days this week where everyone had everything done!

Have a wonderful, warm weekend!
Faith Humerick