REMINDER DATES:
January 18:  Delayed start   LIBRARY DAY!
January 21 & 22--1/2 day--our dismissal time is 11:55
     (January 22 is also a possible sledding morning for kindergarten--details to follow)
January 29:  Report cards home
January 29:  Basketball homecoming

This week we our story helps us understand how community changes environment to make it better (like a new playground, community garden or a new road).

VOCABULARY:  community, improve

WORDS:  Reviewing do, go, to, and, you

LETTERS:  Reviewing Ii, Nn, Cc, Oo, Dd

COMPREHENSION:  We will read stories and talk about what happened first, next, last.  you could practice this at home too.

WRITING:  We write daily in our journals.  We will be making an "I can" book.

MATH:  Introduce sphere, cube, cone and prism 3D shapes.  Practice skip counting by 10's, 5's and 2's.  Count to 50 by 1's.
We will learn Top-it (Also known as WAR) card game.

SCIENCE/SOCIAL STUDIES:
Reading stories about snow and snowmen.  We will also read The Mitten by Jan Brett and use stuffed animals to act out the story.
We will read information texts on Martin Luther King Jr.