Happy New Year to you all! I hope your Christmas break was a wonderful one!

We are happy to welcome a new student to our classroom this week. Her name is Eliyanah, and we look forward to including her in our learning community.

There will be a Dress Down Day on Friday. $5 is required to participate, and proceeds will support the yearbook. We are unable to make change.

There will be a spelling test and a math test on time this Wednesday. Please note that the spelling words this week are high-frequency words that we have encountered in Unit 2 of Wonders. Students will complete a Wonders Unit 2 overall assessment on Thursday.

This week, we will be

• Exploring ways to show kindness, discussing and writing about our new year with God, and learning more about when Jesus was first presented in the temple, how John prepared the way for Jesus and baptized Him, and the twelve apostles of Jesus in Religion.
• Completing our work in Unit 2 of Wonders, including figurative language, alliteration, rhyme schemes, lines, and line breaks in poetry; phonemic awareness and word building; identifying and spelling high-frequency words; y as a vowel, words ending in le, and r-controlled vowels; action verbs; strategies for vocabulary building; and the writing of an expository essay, in ELA
• Reviewing time concepts, in particular, time to and past the hour, the terms quarter to/past and half past, A.M. and P.M., and the identification and use of the minute and hour hands on the clock, plus beginning Module 10, 2-Digit Addition and Subtraction – Counting Strategies, using a hundred chart and a number line, in Math
• Diving into Chapter 4 of My World, “People Who Supply Our Goods and Services,” by examining needs, wants, and choices plus food producers, followed by considering the value of maps and map elements as presented in Wonders in Social Studies
• Investigating and reflecting on how animals survive using a multitude of selections in Wonders that focus on climate- and habitat-related issues affecting survival that give students opportunities to compare, contrast, sequence, and identify causes and effects plus related presentations and activities in Mystery Science in Science

Specials will include Library, Art, SEL, PE, Spanish, Music, and Computer. We will be attending Chapel on Wednesday. Your child will be provided with an offering envelope on Tuesday to take home.

May our precious Lord bless our week together,

Mrs. Nekota