Welcome back everyone and Happy New Year!! It was great to get back into the classroom routines once again.

We started off the new year with a new set of Centers. Some of the groups have been switched around a bit so some students might have made a change into a different classroom. Students are doing extremely well in the guided reading groups!! Super job everyone!! Each of the groups started with a new anthology today!

After recess, we wrapped up our Organizational Trait in writing by discussing endings in our writing. Students will be focusing on using 4 different types of endings.

Students worked in partners to create new endings for two children's books.



The students were then given their writing assignment to wrap up this trait. Students will be writing an expository piece based on a given RAFTS. Students will be assessed on 6 different components that we have discussed so far. We will continue with this writing activity next class.

After lunch, students jumped right back into Math. The students are bringing home their multiplication test that they wrote before the break. Please sign and return as soon as possible.
Students worked through three station today. We will be continuing with the second part of our multiplication unit. At station 1, students worked with partners to play Multiplication Tic Tac To to review their multiplication facts. At the teacher table, students were introduced to the first of three strategies for multiplying 2-digit by 2-digit numbers. Students will be building arrays with the base ten blocks to solve as one of the strategies.

The day wrapped up with Phys Ed and Read Aloud.
Have a great evening everyone!