January 12: Newsletter

IMPORTANT DATES:

• January 16 - Jet's Pizza Night 
• January 19 - Popcorn/Spirit Day (PJ Day)
• February 2 - Early Release
• February 5 & 6 - Mid-Winter Break (No School)
• February 14 - Valentine's Day

READING:

Please remind your child to read each night for 20 minutes. Don't forget to record their minutes on their home reading log. I still collect those each Friday and document the minutes read for the week. 

We just started a unit on series books. We are reading many Froggy books as an introduction to the topic. Next week students will begin reading a series book in a small group. They seem to be looking forward to this!

WRITING:

Next week we will explore realistic fiction and prepare to write about it! Students will have a lot of time to discuss the characteristics of the genre, read a variety of books, and transfer those strategies to their own writing.

MATH:

This week we began Unit 3: Length and Shapes.  Students are learning how to use rules to measure lengths to the nearest whole-number unit.  We have also spent time recognizing and drawing shapes.  Ask your child to describe the properties of a square, rectangle, triangle, quadrilateral, pentagon, and hexagon.  They know these shapes really well!!

GROWTH MINDSET:

Questions to develop a growth mindset in your child...

What will you do to challenge yourself today?

What will you do to improve your work?

What will you do to solve this problem?

These can make for great conversations around the dinner table!