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January 23rd, 2018

Dear Parents and Guardians,

This week has been very exciting so far! On Monday, we worked on our journals. Our main areas of focus in writing right now are as follows:

- proper use of capital letters
- proper use of end punctuation
- proper use of the digraphs "th", "sh", and "ch"
- properly spelled sight words
- and as always, finger spaces!

For the last two weeks, we have sent home a green journal titled "Letters to Home". The idea is that your child can share with you what they have done during the week, while the book provides you with information regarding the progression of their writing. We ask that you please respond to your child in the journal and send it back each Monday.

Today, we had an in-school field trip! A mechanical engineer came in to teach us about building materials and structures. What a great way to kick off our "Building Things" unit! We made and tested Lego bridges (we EXCEEDED expectations, with the strongest bridge holding 12 weights!) as well as paper bridges. It was hard to believe that a few pieces of paper could hold much weight, but our strongest paper bridge held 6 weights before falling! Here are some pictures and videos from our day:).

               

                  

               

       







We have also continued working on our MISSING posters for our lost gingerbread people. We wrote a rough copy, edited it, and then copied it over to the poster. Ask your child where they think the gingerbread people went!




The book fair is tomorrow. Students wrote down books that they are interested in today, and are able to purchase them tomorrow or at conferences.

I look forward to seeing you all at Student Led Conferences on Thursday and Friday :).

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