Happy New Year!

I hope your holiday break was enjoyable!  It is time for school again and I am so excited to see everyone!

We will have no homework this first week since it is a short week.

We will be starting our new science unit on Communities and Maps.  For our STEM project this month, we will need donations of cardboard.  The pieces need to be cut so they are flat pieces only.  This is a great way to get through that after-Christmas pile that has taken over!  Send in any flat pieces of cardboard with your student by the 12th so we know how much we have to work with.  Any left over will be used for an art project I have planned!

We will also be starting our new chapter in math which focuses on 3-digit subtraction.  We will be using the same strategies from the last chapter with the exception of the open number line, this one was the least favorite.  I will post videos again to explain each strategy.

Last quarter, we really struggled with Standard L2.4b which focuses on Prefixes.  We recently revisited this concept and the students were much more successful!  This has been submitted to their grade book for you to see.  There will be three additional standards posted after the 5th of the month.  We are revisiting difficult concepts and discovering new ones each day.  They are working so hard!

Happy New Year!
Mrs. Zimm