Happy New Year!

     I hope everyone had a relaxing Christmas vacation!  The students were ready to work when they got back.  Since we have no reading test this week we were able to spend time finishing some chapter books we had started before Christmas.  Each chapter book had a comprehension activity as well.   We discussed what a resolution is and each student wrote about a resolution they made for the new year.  I had quite a laugh when one student told me that her parents said, "A resolution is something you break."  We got out the dictionary so I could prove that it is actually a promise you try to keep. 
:-)  We also finished a book started before break: The Jolly Christmas Postman.  It has letters to different storybook characters that we pulled out and read.  We will soon be writing our own letters to our reading buddies so it was a great introduction to that activity.