Happy New Year to all students and parents in of our class and welcome back!!  I'm sure that you all enjoyed the fabulous time off and are ready and eager to get back to learning!! Our spelling words this week focus in the "-sh" sound.  I have included in the homework duotang the words for the next four weeks.  Feel free to look them all over but there is only one group of words assigned for each week.  We will continue our Daily 5 during our literacy block and I will be introducing the final component - Word Work.  Our writing this week will focus on understanding and developing New Year's Resolutions. In math we are continuing with our addition unit.  We will learn our doubles facts ( ie. 2+2=4, 6+6=12..) which will lead into  learning the strategy "doubles plus one" (ie. 2+3=5).