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Week of September 17
Week of September 17
HOMEWORK
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Monday-Thursday
-Math sheet
-Words Their Way
Monday--word sort.
Have your child sort their words and teach someone at home their pattern
Tuesday--speed sort.
Time your child and see how fast they can correctly sort their words. See if they can beat their time.
Wednesday--blind sort.
Give your child their headings and read the words aloud individually so your child cannot see the word. They must tell you the appropriate heading it goes under.
Thursday-- choice!
I have sent home a packet of all the homework guidelines. On the last page, there is a list of different choice options for a Thursday activity.
FRIDAY THIS HOMEWORK IS DUE.
Someone at home must sign off on the homework sheet that your child completed an activity each night.
-Read 20 minutes
-Picture day Forms-Picture day is Friday!
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WHAT WE ARE LEARNING
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MATH
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We finished up math iReady and I will be using the data to support them during intervention. Please have your child work on iReady lessons at home to help them to fill gaps in their learning. These lessons are based on the assessment and will review and assess skills they did not understand. I will be checking their progress regularly and be able to work with them if they continue to struggle.
I assessed their understanding of multiplying and dividing by 10, 100, 1000 from millions to thousandths. Many students are still using charts so I will continue to review this skill. We did start to work on exponents and will continue this skill this week along with writing decimals in expanded, unit and word form.
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READING
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This week in reading, we will start going over different writing about reading strategies. Ultimately there will be five, and along with their 20 minutes of reading each night, they will be responsible for choosing 1 strategy and writing about what they read. This will begin in about two weeks, after the strategies have been taught and practiced in class. This week they will learn:
visualizing: with this strategy, students use details and clues from the story to create a picture in their mind. This could include:
The students can then draw what they visualized and provide a description of what their drawing is showing.
make a connection: with this strategy, they can either make a:
WRITING: Continuing with generating different ideas for generating personal narratives (and drafting the start to some potential stories) we will be working on "firsts and lasts". We will be reading the example narratives My Brave Year of Firsts and 17 Things I'm Not Allowed to do Anymore in order to spark ideas of firsts/last times they did something that left an impact on them. They will then start a few different stories in their writing notebooks. Ultimately in a few weeks, they will be choosing one of the stories they started and work to take it through the entire writing process.
WORDS THIER WAY: This week, we started Words Their Way. This is a program that is individualized and geared towards improving spelling/sound recognition/phonemic awareness through word patterns. Two weeks ago, your child took a spelling assessment to see where they are in terms of their phonemic awareness and have been placed in a group on the same level. Each week, they will receive a new pattern and complete activities both in class and out of class for homework to solidify this pattern. Their first assignment is tonight. The homework schedule is as follows:
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SOCIAL STUDIES
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SCIENCE
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Students will be setting up their science notebook and begin the unit on earth science. I will be assigning a lunar log which students will need to fill in each night. All they need to do is draw what they see of the moon each night and if they can't see or it is cloudy write "can't see". They will pass it after a month of observing.
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REMINDERS
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-Early Release Wednesday
-Picture Day Friday!!!
-Field Trip forms
-$10 for field trip
-Book Orders due at end of month
-Student Government form due 9/22
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