I cannot believe how fast the year is going!  We only have 12.5 days left until the end of first quarter.

It looks like we are going to have some cold weather on Tuesday.  Please make sure your child is prepared for the cold weather and snow.  I'm keeping my fingers crossed that it doesn't snow.  I'm just not ready for it quite yet!

This week we our essential question is What do friends do together?  As always, we will be reading and digging deep into various texts to find the answer to our question.  We will be working on finding evidence from the text, asking and answering key details about the text, identifying the main idea, and using photos/illustrations.

In writing, we will be finishing up our first opinion piece and completing the final draft.  We will then move onto our second opinion piece about our favorite place in Billings.  Often it is hard for students to think of their favorite place.  Please help your child brainstorm a few of your family's favorite places to go in Billings.  It could be a park, a store, restaurant, etc.

In math, we are continuing to work on our addition facts.  We will use number bonds this week to help understand that addition is taking two parts and putting them together to make the whole.  We will use the part-part-whole terminology throughout the year.  This approach really seems to help when we move into subtraction.

Have a fabulous week!