Happy New Year everyone!  

I hope you all had a super Winter break.  It is really great to be with the kids again after such a LONG vacation. 

This week is assessment week in preparation for report cards that will go home a week from Friday.  That mixes up our schedule a bit for the week, but we plug along!  As Ms. Jennifer and I do assessments, the students will do writer's workshop, math and math stations, etc.  Feel free to come in this week even if you are not regularly scheduled!  Thursday will be a short day (Friday schedule), and students will be off on Friday.  Just one vacation after another!

New spelling lists went out today, along with an explanatory email.  I am proud of how well the class is doing!  For your information, anything not Beginning Consonant, Ending Consonant, or Short Vowel is actually 1st grade level spelling.  A refresher letter with home study ideas was sent as well.  Since this week is short, we will have our spelling quiz on Thursday.

This week's sight words are all of the term 2 words.  A sheet went home today with all 20 words.  Please do sight word shopping at a store with your child.  it's important for your child to see and notice these words in the world around us.

As always, please remember the daily reading.  At least 20 minutes, your child needs to read, be read to, or do Raz-kids.

thank you!