Welcome back to school! I hope that everyone shared wonderful holidays with your family and friends. The reading theme we started this week was, Let's Count! Some of the stories that we read were Benny's Pennies, Feast for 10, What's on the Menu? Ten Gingerbread Men, and The Twelve Days of Winter. Our new popcorn word was, and. In Jolly Phonics, we learned the two sounds that oo make (as in the words book & moon). We've started printing the lowercase letters during handwriting. This week we made letters c, o & s, which all begin with making a magic c. We added the season of winter to our calendar time and also added a question of the day. Each day there is a question and the students have to decide if their answer is yes or no. We then make tallies to record the results. In math we are beginning to learn about 3d shapes such as the sphere, cone, cylinder, cube, pyramid and rectangular prism. The students went to library, computers, gym and had beautiful weather for outdoor recess. It was a great week!