We are now in the part of the year I like to call the meat and potatoes part of learning. Routines and expectations are established. Base lines of learning are taken, and now we are using foundational learning to expand literacy and numeracy skills.

In Language Arts, the students are focusing in on the Beginning, Middle and End of stories. Using Winter Themed books and a favourite author, Jan Brett, the students are finding key sentences to summarize the beginning, middle and end of stories. You can reinforce this skill by discussions at home about stories, movies, shows that your child has viewed.

In Math, the students are using manipulatives to represent number sentences. They are creating "frogs" on "lilypads" and are adding or subtracting them, and writing corresponding number sentences. 

Enjoy!