Dear Parents,
Reminders:
We are getting ready to start our third nine weeks and our January Blitz to
get the students ready for the CRCT in the Spring. The work will be more
challenging so please make sure to look over your child's work and send me a
note or e-mail if you notice them struggling with anything. Both Ms. Castro
and I will be working hard to help those who may not get the concepts we are
learning quickly but sometimes we may miss someone. We appreciate you helping
us with this. Below are listed some of the concepts we will be learning this
next nine weeks.
Spelling Test
The spelling words come from our Phonics lessons allowing the students to be
able to apply the phonics rules to help them. Please make sure your child is
practicing their words at home. The bonus word will help students who know
how to spell but at times reverse a letter. The total points they can receive
is 100 so if a child gets all the words correct and the bonus there are no
extra points and no points taken away if he/she miss it.
Reading
This nine weeks we will continue to work on characters, setting, main idea,
problem in a story and the solution. We will be focusing on comprehesnsion
skills this nine weeks.Please make sure your child is reading everynight. I
would like to see them taking at least 4 AR test a week so they need to bring
their books to school each day.
Nonfiction books has proven to be one of the best ways to increase
student vocabulary and comprehension. This nine weeks the students will be
learning how to get information from a non-fiction book and will be doing
weekly reports on their non-fiction book. This report will be due every
Wednesday.I will be encouraging the students to be part of the Britt David
Nonficiton Club. Ms. Castro and I will be keeping track of their nonfiction
books for them.
Language
We will be doing more writing this nine weeks. We will continue to make sure
we have used capitals, correct punctuation marks and subject-verb agreement.
Our focus will be reveiwing nouns and adding verbs and adjectives to our
writing. We will be using graphic organizers to help us with writing complete
sentences.
Math Facts
To help increase our students recall of basic math facts we will have a
different math fact test each week. We have finished the 0-9 addition facts
and will be reviewing these periodicly. We have started the subtraction facts
minus 0 and we will continue until we get to minus 9 facts. Flash cards are
an excellent way to prepare for this timed test.
This third nine weeks we will be focusing on identifying geometric
figures/solids and objects in our surroundings that have the same shapes.
Science
We alternate our study of Science and Social Studies every 3 weeks. For the
start of the third nine weeks we will be discussing and learning about the
basic needs of plants and animals.
AR
Parents please make sure your child brings their AR Book everyday. I do allow
them time in class to read this book and to make sure they are logging in
correctly they need the correct title of the book.
Reading for Millionaire
If your child is not a millionaire yet, please keep them reading. It is very
important that you log these books as well. Your child should have read and
logged at least 150 books by the end of the second nine weeks.
Each time your child reads a book they may log it on their reading log. It
does not necessarily have to be a different book. For example if they have
read the same book 5 times they can log it on their reading log five times.
In order to be a millionaire they have to read 250 books so please make sure
that you log the books they are reading at home.
Homework
Homework is given Monday through Thursday. Generally there will be a math
sheet and phonics sheet. For both, we will have had done several practice
examples so that children should be well prepared to complete their homework
assignments. On the nights we have a math or phonics assessment there will be
no homework in that subject.
Mrs. Houston