Week of January 4, 2016

       Happy New Year to all!  Hope everyone had a wonderful holiday.  We are so glad to be back in school.  We have missed each one of our students.
      This week we will be working on the following skills:

• Reading words with long  /o/ and /u/ vowels with CVCe
• Comparing and contrasting things from the past and now as the children read the following story: "Long Ago and Now" and "From Horse to Plane"
• Read and discuss poems for winter
• Discuss and write New Year Resolutions
• Add and subtract two digit numbers
• Work word problems with two digit numbers
• Identifying and reading compound words
• Begin a unit of study on weather
• Write a narrative about living in a snow-globe
• Continue to work on reading for fluency and understand

Weekly Spelling Words:  hope cute nose cube none note ago rope long people

                                          Bonus Words:  January      Resolution

REMINDERS:

• Continue to study words for spelling bee
• The children will practice for the 1st/2nd grade program.  The program will be January 28th.
• Special thanks to Kara Morris (Tate's Mom) for painting the first grade shirts.