January

• Mondays: Bedtime stories with Mrs. Owens
• Tuesdays: Rees or Alief Shirt
• Wednesdays: College or Military Shirt
• Thursdays: wear YELLOW for COMMITMENT
• Thursdays: Parent Lunch from 11:50 - 12:20 pm
• Friday: Rees or Alief Shirt

• January 5: Student Holiday
• January 6: STUDENTS BACK TO SCHOOL - New Year – New You: Free dress day!!
• January 8: Report Card Day/Library Night from 5 to 6:30 pm.
• January 9: All A Honor Roll celebration
• January 12: Half – Way Day: Dress ½ and ½ – Be creative!
• January 13: National Rubber Ducky Day
• January 14: 90s Day (90th day of school)6hg
• January 15: National Hat Day
• January 19: MLK, Jr. Day – No School
• January 20: National Penguin Awareness Day (black and white attire)
• January 21: International Sweatpants Day (with college, military or Rees)
• January 22: Lightning McQueen Day (#95) Day and National Polka Dot Day
• January 23: International Education Day
• January 24: National Compliment Day
• January 28: Picture Day – free dress / JJ Watt Day (#99) / International Lego Day
• January 29: 100th Day of School / Progress Report Day
• January 30: Dalmatian Day!

• January 27: Math CBA

* Subject to change. Any changes will be notified via Class Dojo.

Students will continue to learn about plays (drama). They will be acquiring the skills of retell/summarize, media techniques, elements of drama and theme. This month we will complete weeks 2 and 3 of Module 4. Module 5 will be about Teamwork.

In January, we will be learning the following in grammar:

• Plural Nouns - Changing y to i
• Quotation Marks
• Subject Verb Agreement
• Pronoun Verb Agreement

We'll continue working on responding to prompts using the RACE strategy. Students are working on responding using an extended constructed response and a short constructed response.

In January students will begin Fractions. Students may have some background knowledge on fractions from 2nd grade. This year they will be expected to represent fractions in a variety of ways, comparing and ordering, composing and decomposing fractions as well as partitioning fractions.

Science in January will be a fun time for all! We will learn all about the Earth and the resources, how we use those resources, and how we can conserve those resources for future generations. Science will be fun in January!!

After learning about the first explorers and the formation of the United States of America, students will dedicate the month of January to learn about the constitutional republic, the three branches of the government, and the different levels of it.

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Our conference time is from 12:40 - 1:20 pm

If you want to schedule a conference, please contact your child's teacher ahead of time.