The Explorers Mrs. Lipar Grades 1 and 2 Happy New Year to all Explorer families! December was a short month at CTL. Our elves Holly and Jolly arrived. They brought some fun and excitement to our classroom each day with their snowball fights, game playing, candy cane sharing and even some holiday "decorating" with toilet paper! We had quite a few activities that were full of fun and learning. We celebrated the holiday season with our Polar Express celebration, holiday crafts and gift making for parents, Holiday Treasure Shoppe, our International Day, and our holiday party! All of this would not have been possible without the awesome help from all our parents. Thank you so much for your continued support in making CTL a great place to learn and grow. We have continued to strengthen our skills in all areas of learning. In reading and writing workshop the students have been focusing on making connections, expository text, personal narrative and word study. We are working toward the editing process as we continue our lessons in writing. Our STEM challenges were festive as we geared them around Christmas. We created a Christmas tree with cups (stacking). The class continues to build on the skills they have learned in math as they practice reading and creating math word problems, learning new math vocabulary, working with the different properties of addition, double digit addition and subtraction, money recognition, adding, subtracting, equal groups and repeated addition. We will focus on rounding to the nearest ten and hundred, estimating, fractions, organizing and graphing data and data analysis. 9
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