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- How can my child become a better reader? What can I do to help?
- What should my Reading Log look like?
- Tell me more about my child's agenda book.
- What are some ways to generate ideas for REALISTIC FICTION stories?
- What are helpful ways to memorize Math facts?
- What should my writing notebook look like when I have homework?
- What can my child bring to school for a birthday treat?
- How can I help my child improve his/her reading comprehension?
- Math Unit 1 Study Guide
- Math Unit 2 Study Guide
- Math Unit 3 Study Guide
- Math Unit 4 Study Guide
- Math Unit 5 Study Guide
- Math Unit 6 Study Guide
- Math Unit 7 Study Guide
- Math Unit 8 Study Guide
- Math Unit 9 Study Guide
- Math Unit 10 Study Guide
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How can my child become a better reader? What can I do to help?
1. Make sure your child is reading every night and recording it on the
Reading Log.
2. Ask your child about the book they are reading.
"What's your story about?"
"Tell me what happens to the character(s) in the book?"
"Are there any tricky parts to the book that you would like to discuss?"
"Are there any unfamiliar vocabulary words that you are struggling with.
We can look up the meanings together in a dictionary."
3. It is important that children see that reading is not only an in-school
and homework assignment. Pick up a book and read while your child is reading
as well. This way, your child can see that reading is great for everyone!
4. Use active reading strategies:
Visualize - make a movie in your head
Question - Who, What, Where, When, Why, How?
Clarify - Unsure about something? Reread the text, look at any
illustrations, and clarify new words
Predict - "What will happen next?"
Connect - Make a text to self, text to text, or text to world
React - "This makes me feel _____ because _______."
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What should my Reading Log look like?
Your monthly reading log should include the title of your book, the author,
whether the book was a Fiction or Non-Fiction book, and a recording of how
many minutes your child read.
** It is important to know that your child's monthly grade for the reading
log is not obtained by how many minutes they read, what types of book they
chose to read, and how many books they read. The grade is obtained by how
many total DAYS they read through out that specific month.
For each grade level, there are a set of days. This will change according to
the month.
Also, the reading that your child does at home can include the following:
1. A short story or novel
2. newspaper or magazine article
3. a text book
4. your accelerated reader book or library book
5. having a parent read aloud to you, or you reading aloud to a parent
Please make sure that you read for atleast 15 minutes per day. If you can
read for longer, go for it!
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Tell me more about my child's agenda book.
In the front of your child's agenda book is a "What I Owe Miss G." list.
This list is for children to record any missing homework that they did not
complete. This way, they are responsible for recording down the missing
homework, completing it and returning it in to me, and then evaluating
themselves. They have the chance to see why a homework assignment might not
have been completed and how long it may have taken them to complete it once
it was missing.
This list will be signed at the end of each month by a parent or guardian.
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What are some ways to generate ideas for REALISTIC FICTION stories?
Strategies for generating realistic fiction stories are:
1. Observe the world around you.
2. Reread your personal narrative entries.
3. "What do I wish?"
4. Think of an issue that's important to you. Create a character who
struggles with that issue.
Remember - your realistic fiction story needs to include a plot, characters,
a setting, a problem, and a solution. Remember all of the skills that you
already learned during the personal narrative unit and use them again in
this unit.
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What are helpful ways to memorize Math facts?
(1) Using flashcards - make flashcards using notecards with the addition or
subtraction problem on one side and put the answer on the back. The child
should look at the problem and verbally say the correct answer. Then check
their answer by looking on the other side of the notecard.
(2) Work with a partner, parent, relative, or teacher.
(3) Memorize one fact at a time.
(4) Check out these great helpful websites!
http://karenwalthall.teach-nology.com/favorite_links.html
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What should my writing notebook look like when I have homework?
Whenever writing homework is assigned, a line should be drawn underneath the
classwork that you did that day and there should be a "C" next to it. Then,
at home, you will finish writing your story and put a "H" next to it for
homework. Remember, don't erase your work from class. If you need to make
changes, use your proofreading skills and add to it.
**If writing was not done in school and your assignment is to still write a
complete story at home, your story should still have an "H" written next to
it.
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What can my child bring to school for a birthday treat?
Here is a list of some suggested items for party food:
(This includes birthday's and holiday parties)
Cupcakes(no candy topping)
Cookies
Chips
Fruit
Vegetables
Crackers
Pretzels
Popcorn (not candy coated)
Ice Cream
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How can I help my child improve his/her reading comprehension?
http://www.readinga-z.com/newfiles/preview.html
Download these free books onto your computer and practice your
comprehension skills at home.
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Math Unit 1 Study Guide
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Math Unit 2 Study Guide
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Math Unit 3 Study Guide
1. Make ballpark estimates for number models (SRB 190-194)
2. Measuring line segments to the nearest 1/2 inch and 1/2 cm (SRB 143-145,
137-139)
3. finding perimeter (SRB 150-151)
4. chance and probability (SRB 92)
5. calculating amount of change received after spending money and using
coins to correctly show how much money is left
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Math Unit 4 Study Guide
It will cover the following concepts: completing multiplication and division
fact families (SRB 54-55), writing the number that is 100 more, finding the
area of rectangles (SRB 154-155), solving multiplication number stories (SRB
259), using a rule to solve multiplication problems (SRB 203-204), extending
numberical patterns (SRB 8-9), using the multiplication shortcuts "turn
around rule," and x0 and x1 (SRB 56).
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Math Unit 5 Study Guide
Children are responsible for the following concepts:
writing and comparing 5-digit numbers (SRB 18-21), using basic addition and
subtraction facts to compute extended facts (i.e. 9+3=12, 90+30=120),
finding the sum of four addends, adding and subtracting multi-digit numbers
and making ballpark estimates to check if the answer makes sense (SRB 190-
194), and finding the area and perimeter of rectangles (SRB 150-151, 154-
156). There will also be an open-ended question.
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Math Unit 6 Study Guide
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Math Unit 7 Study Guide
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Math Unit 8 Study Guide
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Math Unit 9 Study Guide
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Math Unit 10 Study Guide
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