Important Dates . . .
November 11 -- Veteran's Day -- No School
Language Arts
We are continuing to build our skills from recognizing phrases and sentences to identifying attributes of sentences. They should be able to identify that a sentence has two parts: a who or what part that tells who or what the sentence is about and a does what part that tells what the who or what does.
Reading
We are working on story elements and decoding skills. The story element being focused on is character. Students need to work on recall of information and details relating to characters.
Please keep reading 20 minutes a night for the Independent Reading Program! Due to some confusion, you may just note the time read in increments of 20 minutes in the pages read section. This orange folder should be turned in every Monday to make sure they are staying on track. Keep reading!
Spelling
Practice pages will be assigned for the upcoming week's list on Friday to give additional study time. Over the weekend would be a good time to discuss the meaning of the words. Although we work on meaning typically on Fridays and Mondays, help from home is greatly encouraged! They will be receiving them daily as an assignment. A test over the lesson will be given every Friday. Please try to help your child study if you see they are not performing as well as you'd expect on the weekly test. One strategy you can use to help is: Popsicles - Make words using popsicle sticks.
Science
We will continue our introductory chapter this week. This chapter highlights information that students can use throughout the year. We will review Lesson 1 this week, “What are Tools for Inquiry?” We have discussed the definition of the root word of inquiry: inquire (to ask a question). Then we will continue in our introductory chapter, lesson 2. There is a lot of information to know. Please review lessons when possible. The information will be found in their Science folder in their binder. This will help when the test arrives.
Math (Mrs. K's Math class only)
We will move on to Chapter 3, Place Value and apply it to everyday situations.
Daily Homework
Reading - 20 minutes and complete Independent Reading Folder Log
- practice reading poems given to work on fluency
Spelling - Practice Page nightly & study words
*Please check your child's homework and sign assignment notebook when complete.
**If your child is having difficulties with their homework please send a note and I will help them during free time
