Hello families!

I hope you had a restful weekend despite the bitter cold weather we’ve had!

We had a busy first week back at school.  We gathered with Ms. Perkins’ class for literacy every day and read Mo Willems books and engaged in literacy activities.  We found that there were many similarities and differences between the “Pigeon” books!  We will be reading “Knuffle Bunny” books this week!  If you have any extra magazines at your house and are willing to part with them, please send them with your child this week.  We will be creating art pieces in the style of Mo Willems.

In numeracy we are starting our new unit on representing numbers to 20–a foundational unit before we move into our addition and subtraction unit.  Students are practicing counting forwards and backwards between any two given numbers (ex: 31 to 50 and back again), skip counting by 2s to 20, and 5s and 10s to 100, as well as building numbers different ways (using rods and cubes, ten-frames, tally marks, drawing pictures, etc.)  and finding the two parts that make up the whole number (ex: 2 & 6 is 8; 4 & 4 is 8; etc.)

In health we are discussing emotions and how to deal with them appropriately.  We are exploring the many emotions that humans can possess and identifying the descriptive words for the complex emotions.

Finally, in inquiry we are very excited about bats!  We are reading through our books with partners and finding information to help answer our many questions.  Soon, we will be taking a more in-depth look at one aspect of bats.

Have a wonderful week and enjoy the reprieve from this harsh weather!

Ms. Holmes