Hello Families! It was a pleasure speaking with you during conferences.

All grades began new units at the beginning of December.

The Kindergarten unit is called On the Job. The students are learning about different careers. They are classifying jobs as Jobs That Help and Jobs That Make Something.

In First Grade, the unit is Creature Features. The students are comparing and contrasting the special attributes of a variety of animals.

The Second Grade unit is entitled Better Together. The students are using vocabulary words such as cooperate, opportunity, success and result to answer the Unit Questions: Why do people work together? What do we gain when we give?

The Third Graders are learning about solids, liquids and gases in the unit Mysteries of Matter. They are using the words alter occur, substance, state, composition and combine to explain changes in matter.

The Fourth Grade unit is Treasure Hunters. Unit vocabulary includes legend, chart, exploration, interpret, colony and currency. With the fiction selections, the students are focusing on how a character changes throughout the text, and how these changes drive the plot. The non-fiction texts include history articles in which the students are citing evidence to support inferences.

The Fifth Grade unit is called The Wild, Wild West. A variety of non-fiction accounts chronicle the Westward Expansion.

All units include the four language domains: reading, writing, listening and speaking.

Enjoy the Winter Break! We will begin new units when the students return in January. The students will also be taking the LAS Links that assess language growth. I will post more information about LAS Links in January.