I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  I checked Raz Kids over the weekend and saw that many students have started to do the readings and quizzes.  When you sit with your child as they read the stories, please encourage them to use different reading strategies and to think about the story.  The students worked on writers' workshop today.  The students had the choice to work on a new piece or work on a previous piece.  In small groups we discussed the writing rubric and what to keep in mind when writing.  Ask your child what we are looking for in writing.  We just wrapped up Data Management in math today and we will begin Number Sense tomorrow.  The grade one students will work on one to one correspondence with number words and the grade two students will begin with anchoring numbers to ten.  The grade one students are working on different ways in telling time, such as day and night, seasons, days, months, hours etc. The grade two students are comparing traditions and celebrations.