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Nov. 16 - 20

  Hi Families!   Here is a peek at our learning this week:   Literacy : Students are continuing to learn and practice  different  reading and w riting strategies to develop their proficiency as readers and writers.    Math : We are continuing to work hard on our addi tion skills and strategies.  We have also begun counting  in  different ways. We learned that counting by 1’s isn’t very efficient, or very fast.  Skip counting by 5’s is much faster!   We noticed that when we  skip  count by 5’s,  we found a pattern! A ll the numbers we say have either a 0 or a 5 in the ones place.  Help me practice skip counting by 5’s at home.    Social Studies :  Grade 1’s  are community pla n n ers! Students have been tasked with designing their own community  that people will want to live in  and convincing others to move there . We discussed that a community needs places to live, work and pla...