January 9th

Hello parents,
I pray that you are all staying healthy and warm this week.  I want to say a big thank you to all the parents that came for our Christmas party.  It is so nice that you all take the time to plan things for the kids!  Here's what is coming up this week:

Religion/Memory:
We will begin working our way through the Apostle's Creed.  I have put up the rest of the memory work for the year.

Math:
We are doing a unit on Fractions right now that will take us through the middle to end of next week.  I plan to stray from the book for a lot of the assignments and the end test as well.  Next week we will begin working on multiplication as well.  This will be something that we work on for the rest of the school year.  The goal is that your child develops fluency and speed with their multiplication facts 0-12.

Reading/Language Arts:
Currently we are looking at non fiction texts about space.  We will be working very hard on finding the main idea of paragraphs and articles that we read.  I am also having the kids do several writing assignments which will require them to use a main idea and detail correctly.  Most of this writing will be worked on in class so that I can conference and work through the difficult parts with them.  However, depending on the speed of their writing, some of it may need to be finished at home.

Social Studies:
We are joining Mr. Fishburn's class in learning about our country's government.

Science:
We have begun a new unit on Force and Motion that will take us most of the way to Spring Break.  A letter describing the unit in more detail will be sent home tomorrow.