On Friday, students took a math assessment that focused on rounding and subtraction and addition. I'll spend instructional time during intervention/enrichment reviewing mistakes and supporting students who are still struggling with these concepts. Once I feel students have mastered the skill, I'll administer another test to see if there has been growth. This grade would replace your student's score if it is higher. During our math time, we'll move on to our next unit on 2-D shapes. Students need to be able to speak and write down the attributes of various shapes. Vocabulary includes polygons, quadrilaterals, parallelograms, congruent lines, perpendicular lines, right angles, trapezoid, rhombus, rectangle, and square.
In reading, we'll look closely at main ideas with details from the text, using knowledge of prefixes and suffixes to determine the meanings of words, and writing answers using topic sentences and factual statements from their informational reading. An assessment will be given in reading on Tuesday. Science has been fun as we've learned about the human body. Last week, we learned more about the skin (it's the largest organ and is about 22 square feet!). Students should now be able to share what's in our skin after reading, watching a video from Brainpop and actually making a model of the skin. Skin parts include epidermis, dermis, sweat glands, nerves, pores, and hair follicles. The purposes of the skin include preventing germs from entering the body and protecting the body's bones and organs. In your Monday folders, you will find interims and assessments. Please go over the assessments with your child. I have stapled a sample reading response so that you can see what is expected to achieve a 3 or above. You will also see your student's score for the BOG (Beginning of Grade) test. Please go through all papers on Monday and have your student return the folder on Tuesday. Friendly Reminder: Friday is an Early Release Day. Thank you for all you do! Amy Flowers
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This week, students will take an addition and subtraction assessment and then move forward to rounding. Rounding can be challenging for some students. It's helpful for students to know their 10's really well.. When given 58, students can determine if this number is closer to 50 or 60, using 55 as a benchmark. 58 would round to 60 because it is closer to 60 than 50. This can get tricky when students are asked to round 158 to the nearest ten. 158 rounds to 160. Students can have confusion with larger numbers.
In reading, students will continue with understanding the gist of a text and supporting this with details. We will begin to shift to informational texts mid-week so that students are searching for main ideas. In science, students will connect their knowledge of bones and joints to muscles. They will create two models of muscles, using the vocabulary of "contract" and "relax". For homework, students are asked to write constructed responses to a prompt of their choice. I'll be sending home an example of this so that it's clear what the expectation is for your student. Students should read 20 minutes and then answer a prompt daily. I'll be sending home their composition books for this work. Please have your student return the book each day so I can hold them accountable. Math spiral review is due on Friday. ***Beginning of Grade testing starts at 9:25 on Tuesday. I've practiced with students and explained what testing looks like. They are ready to go! Thank you for all you do, Amy Flowers [email protected] I hope all of you enjoyed a wonderful Labor Day weekend! This week, students will work with solving addition and subtraction problems. We encourage students to try a variety of strategies: place value drawings, expanded form, show all totals. After students have reviewed these skills, we'll move to word problems in which students have to discern which operation they need to do in order to solve for the answer. In reading, students will be concentrating on how to construct a response that explicitly refers to details in the text. I will model how students need to provide multiple details as they answer questions. We'll continue with our unit's theme of overcoming challenges as we look for central messages in our read aloud books. In science, we'll review the joints and focus on the thumb joint. Following this, students will learn about muscles and make models to demonstrate how they contract and relax. Please remember to sign your name once your student completes their daily reading assignment. The math spiral review attached to the reading assignment needs to be turned in on Friday mornings. This green Monday folder needs to be returned tomorrow morning. Thank you for how you're supporting your child at home! Amy Flowers [email protected] |
AuthorHi! I'm Amy Flowers-mom to four great kids and one energetic puppy. I've been in education fifteen plus years and am passionate about igniting a love for learning, not just filling a bucket.. Archives
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