Important Dates . . .
Wednesday, October 20 - Early dismissal @ 11:00 a.m.
Thursday, October 21 - Book Fair - 6:30 to 8:00 p.m.
Friday, October 22 - National School Bus Driver Appreciation Day
*District 66 - Eat Out at Buona Beef http://www.ccsd66.org/PTO/FundRaisers/BuonaBeef.pdf
Friday, October 29 - Halloween Parties - 1:30 to 2:25 p.m.
This past week and next week, students are taking the MAP assessment. The MAP assessment is a new tool for our district that will provide teachers an effective means for determining students' proficiency in reading, language and math. The test will be given in three parts, on three different days. Your child has already taken the Language Arts assessment and next week will take the Math and Reading. The MAP assessment is replacing Iowa testing in District 66.
Language Arts
Was you child able to answer the question after Friday, "What happens when punctuation takes a vacation?" Punctuation is our new unit of study!
Reading
This week we will continue vocabulary skills with Lesson 22! Your child will be coming home with 7 words that will be studied during the week in class and should be reviewed at home. On the page I will be sending home each Monday there will be suggestions on how you can work with your child & have them get extra practice.
We will continue working on phonics, decoding, encoding, and comprehension throughout the week through direct instruction, Lexia, and hands on materials.
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 red folder should be turned in every Friday to make sure they are staying on track. The Independent Reading Folder should be turned in for a grade at the end of the month. Keep reading!
Spelling
This week we will begin working through a list of the top 100 words. These l00 words as listed in the "A.B.C. Language Arts Bulletin" Educational Research Service, American Book Co., account for 65% of all running words in the writing of adults. We will continue to work through the list of these words for the next few weeks. Reading and spelling skills will be built at the same time through this list.
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 this 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: Window spelling - - Use Crayola Window Markers ($3 each at Wal-mart) and the kids can write their words on the windows.
Social Studies
We will begin a new unit this week, Unit 4, Our Country Today.
Math
We are working on number sense and numeration. The students have been gaining much from mini lessons followed up with multi-modal activities.
Daily Homework
Reading - 20 minutes and complete Independent Reading Folder Log
- turn in this Friday
- study lesson 22 vocabulary words (quiz on Friday)
- practice reading poems given to work on fluency (read to teacher on Friday)
Spelling - Practice Page nightly to be turned in & study words for test on Friday
*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.
