They have learned the parts of a sentence including nouns, verbs, and pronouns. The students will continue with writer s workshop and mini-lessons taught from analyzing their writing. Interactive writing and cursive handwriting will also continue. We would appreciate parents sending in any ideas their child could add to their writing workshop topic list. For example, let us know if you went anywhere special for the holidays.
Students often forget what they do with their free time.
The students are making good progress in math. We have been working on base ten problems. For example, recognizing the pattern when adding ten to single and double digits. In addition, we reviewed fact families and have recently begun carrying. We have been laying the foundation by trading ones for tens, and we are on the brink of applying the carrying or regrouping skill to pencil and paper problems.