MARK YOUR CALENDAR January 8 : School Resumes January 15: No School (Teacher Professional Development) February 16: Midwinter Break - No School February 19: Midwinter Break - No School WEEK AT A GLANCE Jupiter Presentation : We were so fortunate to have a real life engineer (& dad of one of our first graders) present information all about how his team of hundreds at NASA helped construct, launch, and guide a space probe (Juno) to Jupiter. Below are some pictures from his presentation. Reading : We’ve been studying how to get Super Smart about Nonfiction Topics. We’ve learned that readers of nonfiction text: Take a Sneak Peek to start learning Stop and study each page Guess what might come next Chat about what’s happening Word Study : We’ve been studying endings of words. We learned that the ending /-ed/ makes three sounds /t/ /d/ /id/. We also learned that blends can come at the end of words too, and that those can be different than the ones found at the beginning o...