Welcome back for another week!  We drew countries for each class to follow during the winter Olympics and we got NORWAY!  We will be making flags and preparing for the opening ceremonies on Friday. This week in: French: We continue with Daily 5 (Reading independently, with a partner, with the teacher, working on writing and spelling & listening to stories.)  We work on various reading strategies every week, so daily reading at home in a must! Social Studies:  We will be looking at our neighborhoods and how far away we live from the school.  We will look at maps and use Google Maps Street View to take a look around and get an idea of some distances we travel every day. Math: We are finishing up our addition and subtraction unit.  It seems like we have been on this unit forever because we started it before the Christmas break and don’t move on until we really have a good understanding.  We are getting there and by the end of the week I should have idea of when the unit test will be.  Practice makes perfect, so there will be questions Tuesday and Thursday this week.  Do your best! Estimate, choose a strategy, calculate, and check your answer with your estimation. * I will try to scan an example question for the new strategy tonight or tomorrow for parents (as I know the ‘new’ math can be confusing at times) Here’s to a great week!