Weekly Update 11.8.16
By carrievaughan In News & Updates On November 8, 2016
Be on the Lookout for…
- Report cards came home last week. Please read, sign and return ENVELOPE ONLY asap.
- Tuesday folders will not come home today. Please look fo these next week.
- Thank you to all who have signed up for Fall conferences. 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.
- Students will participate in multiple voting activities this week, including (but not limited to) voting for the president. Students will simulate a voting line, registration counter, voting booth, receive a sticker, and even a post-vote selfie station. Tune into our twitter to see the fun in action! word-rockthevote
This week in Literacy:
This week, we are finishing a brief unit of nonfiction text using the story “The Athabascans: Old and New Ways” to identify text features and main ideas. Students will read and reread to answer surface level and deeper thinking questions about their reading. Later this week we will start the story “The Year of Miss. Agnes” to dive back into character development and ask and answer questions about literacy.
This Thursday will be our last initial quiz for 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! Selling RETESTS will begin FRIDAY, December 2nd.
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
