This week, our focus was on the phases of the moon. We also enjoyed exploring constellations.
Please feel free to place a blank paper in the dry erase sleeve and have your child create a quick retelling (including a Beginning, Middle and End) of a book you've been reading together, a show, or a movie you just watched together (to change things up a bit). Your child may feel inclined to create a new story, or perhaps you'll plan one together.
A quick sentence a day will help with targeting focus areas. Alternating goals each week would help as well. For example, capitalization one week and punctuation the following week.
Reading:
We know that reading is thinking. So we are going to continue to work on asking questions while reading. Questions such as: What is the main topic? What details support the main topic? What is the author's purpose? This is also a great way to help us grow as writers, and mimic authors and their styles of writing.
As avid readers, we are encouraged to set goals. One of our main goals is to remember to fill out our reading logs at home.It is recommended that your child reads for at least twenty minutes, five times per week. Please see the leveled book guide to check out books from the public library.
If you would like to be a guest reader in our classroom anytime throughout the school year, please let me know. If you would like it to be a surprise for your child, please send me three clues for me to post on the board before your arrival. Feel free to bring in a book that you and your child love to read together, or select any book from our classroom library. Please complete the Chaperone and Volunteer Background (ICHAT) form prior to your arrival.
Please encourage your child to read a book on RAZ, listen to it being read to them and then take the quiz. If possible, allow your child to record themselves reading a book so they can play it back for you or for their own listening purposes. All they need to do is click on "read," and then the microphone on the next screen. This will also be a great opportunity for your child to self-correct if needed. Please let me know if you have any questions.
Math:
This week, we completed unit 8 and the highlight of the week was completing number grid puzzles. We enjoyed completing the challenges in class together.
We play "Guess my Number" using the dry erase sleeve in class often. It is a great way to reinforce naming even and odd numbers, numbers that are greater than or less than, etc. Please visit Clever to explore more math games, using the McGraw Hill app.
XtraMath.org is another website that helps build math fact fluency. Your child can either visit the website or log in through Clever. Please encourage your child to visit the website a few times a week to build math fact fluency. The site is designed to test a skill for only a few minutes each day and then the session ends.
Feel free to place a blank or lined paper in your child's dry erase sleeve and allow your child to solve story problems (you can create your own problem, or have him/her visit thatquiz.org, an interactive website that provides immediate feedback) so that they may enhance their constructed response skills.
Please encourage your child to choose a few squares on the High Frequency Word Tic-Tac-Toe. It is always great practice to work on handwriting, regardless of which boxes they choose.
This is meant to be a fun/optional way to practice building vocabulary.