Week of January 9, 2026
Happy New Year!!! Looking Back: Literacy: Phonics: Students continued exploring affixes this week. Our focus was on the suffixes -ly, -y, and -er , and how they can change the meaning of a base word. We played with familiar words, added these suffixes, and noticed how the words transformed in both meaning and sound. Novel Study/Reading: Our journey through Ollie’s Odyssey is continuing, and we are taking our time so we can use the story to support our reading focus. Last month we worked on predicting. In January our focus has shifted to sequencing. Students are learning how to retell stories in order and are practicing using sequencing words such as first, next, then, after that, and finally. We have been working with short passages, including sequencing the steps to build a snowman. Students have also sequenced important events from the chapters of Ollie’s Odyssey we have read. Writing : In writing, we drew inspiration from our winter break. Students wrote about memorable moments an...