Welcome Back! January 19th - January 23rd

“Cheers to a new year and another chance to get it right.” — Oprah Winfrey

WELCOME BACK my beautiful stars! I am so excited to see you all this week and looking forward to having a fun and successful second semester!

I hope you all had a restful winter break. Now that we are back, we are diving right in and getting to work!

Here is what we are doing this week:

Writing
In writing workshop, students will be introduced to an opinion graphic organizer called OREO which stands for:

• O: State your opinion
• R: Give your reason
• E: Provide your evidence or example 
• O: Restate your opinion

This will allow students to organize their thoughts as they write their opinion writing piece. 

Reading
In reading workshop, we will be continuing with our unit Bigger Books Mean Amping Up Reading. This week, our focus will be on noticing and identifying special or figurative language used by authors in the books they are reading. 

Math
In math, students will be dicing right into our 6th unit. We will be working on the following skills:

• Addition of three of more numbers
• Comparison stories
• Mixed addition and subtraction number stories

And that's all folks! Looking forward to seeing you all bright and early on Sunday, January 19th, 2020.

Happy learning!