Today:
Our Hopi test was postponed until tomorrow. Please make sure your child has a good understanding of where each of our tribes call home and how they adapted to their environment for their homes and food.
They voted to have the state test on Friday. This test will focus on locating our states through Maryland and knowing their capitals.
Reading: Everyone should have an agreed upon section in their book to read for tomorrow. We had several who had not written down their thick and thin questions for their group today. We are counting this as a daily reading grade.
Spelling workbook is due tomorrow as well as the test. If your child struggles with kinds of sentences, punctuating, or parts of speech, could you review with them before tomorrow?
Math: Saxon #29 (6-15), spiral sheet, calendar/ some have time fact sheets to do before tomorrow/ some have a blue note asking for help at home in mastering some of our skills such as rounding, ordering, converting fractions to decimals, or naming decimals.
Don't forget picture day is Thursday.
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Monday, October 8, 2012
Today:
Reading Book Clubs started- this means that your child is a member of a group of students all reading the same book. (All the books are connected to our Native American social studies unit.) They will spend about 15 minutes each day reading their book at school and another 10 minutes discussing the "thick and thin" questions they have written in their composition books. There should be a paper with examples of each in their composition book for you to see. They are to write one thick question and answer it, and then write 2 thin questions and answer them. This is in place of their reading summaries each evening. They do not have to do double duty. They may still add whatever additional minutes with pure enjoyment reading to their score for you to sign. If all this is very confusing, please ask me to clarify.
The questions and answers each evening are important because they will be used in the group the next day for discussion. I hope that everyone is able to enjoy their book and have great discussions within their group.
Don't forget Monday's are always practice spelling test night. Please correct 2X and have parent signature on the paper.
Math: spiral workbook for Monday, calendar math, and Saxon #28 (6-15). The three focus problems in the first box are 1/4= 1/5= and 0.3=
Please look over the math tests, ESPECIALLY the rounding, ordering, naming, and converting test. These are major skills that must be mastered. Hopefully, I will not need to use recess time to make sure everyone has got it.
Finally, if your child has not mastered their math facts, please be sure they are working on them nightly with the sheet I give them. I would encourage you to have them be able to say the first row without too much trouble to you. When they struggle with one, help them, and then go back to the beginning of the row again. It helps the brain remember the facts to keep going back that way.
States were chosen today for our research paper. I gave them a template to match for their state. We will be using our atlas and school state books from the library for research sources. Tomorrow, we will learn how to write our bibliographies to give credit to those sources. These papers won't be due for a few weeks, but everyone should start looking for their facts.
We had our first Native American village come today. IT WAS AWESOME! I will try to take a picture tomorrow so that you can see it. Hope everyone can get theirs finished by Friday's due date.
Whew! Is that enough for one day?? Thanks again for checking the blog to help your kids stay on track. In fact, if you read this tonight, please ask your child to write me one complex sentence (they should know what that is...) about a Native American tribe....and I will reward them with some bonus $$ tomorrow.
Reading Book Clubs started- this means that your child is a member of a group of students all reading the same book. (All the books are connected to our Native American social studies unit.) They will spend about 15 minutes each day reading their book at school and another 10 minutes discussing the "thick and thin" questions they have written in their composition books. There should be a paper with examples of each in their composition book for you to see. They are to write one thick question and answer it, and then write 2 thin questions and answer them. This is in place of their reading summaries each evening. They do not have to do double duty. They may still add whatever additional minutes with pure enjoyment reading to their score for you to sign. If all this is very confusing, please ask me to clarify.
The questions and answers each evening are important because they will be used in the group the next day for discussion. I hope that everyone is able to enjoy their book and have great discussions within their group.
Don't forget Monday's are always practice spelling test night. Please correct 2X and have parent signature on the paper.
Math: spiral workbook for Monday, calendar math, and Saxon #28 (6-15). The three focus problems in the first box are 1/4= 1/5= and 0.3=
Please look over the math tests, ESPECIALLY the rounding, ordering, naming, and converting test. These are major skills that must be mastered. Hopefully, I will not need to use recess time to make sure everyone has got it.
Finally, if your child has not mastered their math facts, please be sure they are working on them nightly with the sheet I give them. I would encourage you to have them be able to say the first row without too much trouble to you. When they struggle with one, help them, and then go back to the beginning of the row again. It helps the brain remember the facts to keep going back that way.
States were chosen today for our research paper. I gave them a template to match for their state. We will be using our atlas and school state books from the library for research sources. Tomorrow, we will learn how to write our bibliographies to give credit to those sources. These papers won't be due for a few weeks, but everyone should start looking for their facts.
We had our first Native American village come today. IT WAS AWESOME! I will try to take a picture tomorrow so that you can see it. Hope everyone can get theirs finished by Friday's due date.
Whew! Is that enough for one day?? Thanks again for checking the blog to help your kids stay on track. In fact, if you read this tonight, please ask your child to write me one complex sentence (they should know what that is...) about a Native American tribe....and I will reward them with some bonus $$ tomorrow.
Friday, October 5, 2012
May I just say a HUGE THANK YOU for all your help at home. It makes my job so much easier and enjoyable when we work together to see that skills are getting mastered. I will be grading and handing back math mastery quizzes on Monday. I will be pulling students back for this, but please check on Monday night to see how your child is doing. We have worked so hard on some of these skills, but several still struggle.
Language: writing dialoge sentences correctly
compound/ complex/ simple sentences written with correct punctuation
you're your
parts of speech
Reading: finding main idea and details when reading (check comprehension as they read.)
Math: rounding decimals, naming decimals, ordering decimals, changing decimals to fractions
Social Studies: naming the four regional tribes/ what they ate/ what their house was made of/
special trivia for each
TEST OVER TLINGIT ON MONDAY (Northwest, totem poles, fish, cedar trees)
Health: skeletal system name bones/ vocabulary words (notes are in green folder)
Hope the weekend refreshes all of us.
Language: writing dialoge sentences correctly
compound/ complex/ simple sentences written with correct punctuation
you're your
parts of speech
Reading: finding main idea and details when reading (check comprehension as they read.)
Math: rounding decimals, naming decimals, ordering decimals, changing decimals to fractions
Social Studies: naming the four regional tribes/ what they ate/ what their house was made of/
special trivia for each
TEST OVER TLINGIT ON MONDAY (Northwest, totem poles, fish, cedar trees)
Health: skeletal system name bones/ vocabulary words (notes are in green folder)
Hope the weekend refreshes all of us.
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Wednesday, October 3, 2012
Tuesday, October 2, 2012
Today's homework:
spelling workbook pages (if your child has a hard time remembering to bring home their spelling book, they are welcome to just leave it at home since they do this independently. JUST KEEP CLOSE TABS ON IT SO WE DON'T LOSE IT)
math Saxon lesson 25 (11-20), spiral math homework/ calendar
health skeleton page (most already turned it in)
social studies lesson 4 sheet
spelling workbook pages (if your child has a hard time remembering to bring home their spelling book, they are welcome to just leave it at home since they do this independently. JUST KEEP CLOSE TABS ON IT SO WE DON'T LOSE IT)
math Saxon lesson 25 (11-20), spiral math homework/ calendar
health skeleton page (most already turned it in)
social studies lesson 4 sheet
Monday, October 1, 2012
Ethan R September Character Trait Winner
Today:
Please keep working on your Native American shoebox village depicting the region, home, and food of your tribe.
math spiral homework/calendar page/ Saxon #24 (6-15)
practice spelling test
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