• This Week’s Happenings: 
• Mon: No School – Presidents Day
• Thurs: Character Ed – Deposits into our emotional bank accounts
• Fri: Early Release, Spirit Day

Announcements: 

Reading at home: **Your student brings home 2 decodables and 2 stories from our ELA quizzes each Friday. These stories can be read and returned for class money. If they read it 3 times out loud with you, please sign it and have them bring it back. *

Reading in Class

• The essential question is: “What excites us about nature?“
• Comprehension Skill: Identify the Theme in poems
• We will Introduce /âr/ are, air, ear, ere in our spelling words: dare, stare, fare, hair, pair, chair, bear, pear, where, there Review: dear, cheers, knew, never, talk
• Our Vocabulary words are: pale, drops, excite, outdoors

• Math in Class
• We are working and testing on 2-step word problems this week. Then we will be learning how to measure in inches and centimeters.

Reading Homework (optional, but highly encouraged!!) 

**Your student brings home 2 decodables and 2 stories from our ELA quizzes each Friday. These stories can be read and returned for class money. If they read it 3 times out loud with you, please sign it and have them bring it back. *

Please read with your child. Make it enjoyable and fun. You can even read to them!! 20 minutes a day is a great goal.