Important Dates . . .
November 11 -- Veteran's Day -- No School
November 19 – Picture Retakes
November 25, 26, 27 -- Thanksgiving Holiday -- No School
December 1 -- Report Cards
November 30 -- December 4 -- P/T Conferences
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! You may just note the time read in increments of 20 minutes in the pages read section. Please sign on the date the reading was accomplished. This orange folder should be turned in every Monday to make sure they are staying on track. The Independent Reading Folder should be turned in at the end of the month to ensure they can attend the lunch reading party. 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: X Words - Write two words having one common letter so they criss-cross.
Science
We will wrap up lesson 2 and move onto lesson 3 in our introductory chapter this week, Inquiry Skills. This is otherwise known as the skills to use when following the steps in the Scientific Method. There is a lot of information to know. Please review notes and vocabulary cards when possible. The information will be found in their Science folder in their binder. This will help when the test arrives.
Science at Home: There are plenty of opportunities to do science experiments at home. Together think of a question to ask, such as what dissolves in water, what floats or sinks, etc. Then come up with a hypothesis and an experiment plan. Have your child write the steps of the experiment and try it (Hint: if you need assistance the science folder is a good place to help you). Remember to record data during the experiment. Help your child come up with a conclusion and share your findings with family members.
Math (Mrs. K's Math class only)
We will continue focusing on place value and applying it to everyday situations. The children will be encouraged to use various manipulatives and strategies to achieve understanding of place value; whether it be understanding through money, unfix cubes, other tangible objects, 100's chart, and various place value charts.
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
