Weekly Update 11.1.16
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On November 1, 2016
Be on the Lookout for…
- Welcome to 2nd quarter! Report cards for 1st quarter will come home this Friday in agendas. Please read, sign and return ENVELOPE ONLY asap.
- Tuesday folders come home with work samples today. Please review and work on skills or work habits you would like for your child to improve upon.
- Parent teacher conferences will be conducted between Monday, November 7 and Friday, November 18. Please visit the signup genius page to book an appointment. These are 15 minute appointments with a small buffer time between, so please adhere to your time to prevent backup. With report cards I will send home a preconference questionairre so you can think about areas you wish to discuss prior to our meeting.
This week in Literacy:
This week, we are getting excited about NONFICTION text using the book “About Earth” to identify text features and main ideas. Students will read and reread to answer surface level and deeper thinking questions about their reading. They will also explore this same concept in writing. Ask your student about the cracker they learned about today! word-cracker
We are continuing with the “100 Words You Need to Know” spelling activities. Directions are laid out in the plastic sheet inside agendas, but basically students study 1 group/list per week with a quiz on Friday. They are expected to complete 2 practice activities per week in preparation for this quiz. If they pass all the words, they are finished with spelling tests for the year! If they miss words, they will go into a bank of words to be retested on in makeup weeks in December, January, etc. In short- it pays to study and pass the 1st time!
In writing, we are learning about abstract nouns. Learn more here!
This week in Math:
Multiplication is here! Students are connecting addition, subtraction, multiplication and division through number lines, arrays, visual models, and more! Multiplication will be the MAJOR focus on 2nd quarter. Memorization of facts is not the goal (YET…) rather, I want to ensure students know when and WHY multiplication should be used. There are tons of great resources for this skill- please check some out here in this amazing math review resource organized by skill.
Concepts to review: place value, addition with regrouping, subtraction with borrowing, rounding to the nearest 10 and 100, quadrilateral, parallelogram, trapezoid, rectangle, square, rhombus, arrays, repeated addition, commutative property, number line, product
A year long “Scope and Sequence” which lays out our math curriculum pacing for the year can be found here
