Happy New Year!!

I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. The students did a great job getting back into the routines despite the long break. This week we will read and listen to different variations of the story The Three Little Pigs we are asking and answering questions about key details from the story. We have been learning about characters and setting as well as retelling details from the beginning, middle and end of the story. During writing time we are continuing to add words to our word wall. Please keep practicing your words at home. You can look for the words in books you read, use them in a sentence or practice writing them. Last week we began working on writing about our opinions and we will continued to practice opinion writing this week. We are writing about things we like or do not like and then explaining why we like it or don't. As a class we have been using these sentence frames to help guide us during writing time. I like ___________ because _____________. I do not like ____________ because _____________. I like to __________ because ___________. I do not like to ___________ because __________. During our math time we are working on identifying, drawing and comparing the following shapes: square, triangle, rectangle, circle and hexagon. We have been learning how to identify shapes by counting the number of sides and vertices each shape has. This week we will begin to learn about the following three dimensional shapes: sphere, cone, and cube. We are still working on counting 1-70 by ones and tens and reading, writing and counting objects 11-20. Please remember to send in a change of clothes labeled in a baggie. If you want to order a yearbook the deadline is January 8th. We also have PAC literacy night this Thursday January 9th. Teachers will be reviewing websites that are used with the students throughout their school day.