1/2- 1/5

Hello!  
I hope you had a wonderful winter break! I know that it is such a busy time but I hope that it was a relaxing and enjoyable time for your family.
Mystery Readers:
If you do not see your name and turned in a mystery reader form, please contact me and let me know! Also, if you did not turn it in but would like to select one of the open dates then please let me know! wittmannt@kaukaunasd.org

Specials Schedule:
I have also created a schedule to show you what specials we have on each day: Specials Schedule

January 2nd: Classes Resume
January 5th: Collections Due
January 19th: ½ Day for Students and Yearbook Orders due
January 22nd: No School for Students
January 23rd: Art Family Night
January 25th: Jump Rope for Heart Family Night

Reading: We are beginning to a new fiction reading unit.  We will be getting to know the characters in our books like we get to know our friends.  This week we will focus on sneak peeks and thinking “What does this tell me about the characters? How might the story go?”  We will also check our thinking while reading by saying to ourselves “At first I was thinking but now I’m thinking…” We will also look at how characters feeling changes throughout the book.  
Writing:  Today we did some writing about our break! Tomorrow we will begin our new Opinion Unit.  In the first couple of weeks of this unit we write about collections.  We rank our favorite things and give our opinions.  A letter is coming home today asking you to help your first grader find a collection at home.  Please send it in by Friday. Thank you!
Word Study: This week in word study we will be finishing up our Unit 5. Unit 5 was a very short unit! Students are learning about two new glued sounds am and an. They will also learn some new "trick" words from, have, do, and does.
Math: This week in math we will be starting Unit 4: Place Value Concepts. In the first few lessons students are learning about the tens place and exploring teen numbers. We will be creating/representing teen numbers, introducing ten groupings, and looking at teen addition strategies.
Content: This week we will focus on the size and distance relationship between the earth and the sun.  We will make Sun bracelets. We will also look at the diameter of the sun and make comparisons.  

Let me know if you have any questions.
Miss Wittmann

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