Reminder for this week - we will have our Winter Party on Friday at noon followed by an early release at 1:15. Parents are welcome to attend. If you would like to volunteer to help or provide treats/ supplies please contact Bianca Como.
Over break, please practice skip counting with your child (counting by 3's, 4's, etc.). This will help tremendously with multiplication and division. I will also be sending home a winter break homework packet for them to practice so no newly acquired skills are forgotten. Look for this in folders this week. It will be due when we come back in January. Ideally your child should work on it a little at a time to get consistent practice rather than completing the whole thing in a day. Lots of time spent reading would be great as well!
Reading: We continue to work on learning to be good independent readers. We practice strategies requiring increased independence. For example, encouraging students to pose their own question then find it in the text - then prove it by showing where it was found and finally tell whether it was explicitly stated or an inferred answer.
Writing: Writing paragraphs, indenting, using conventions consistently (punctuation, capitals). Also, we are going to practice letter writing this week.
Math: Division is hard but we are getting it done! I have shown them several representations/ strategies for division. They seem to be doing very well with using multiplication to divide (for example 20/4 = n is the same as 4 x n = 20). I have stressed that division means how many groups of a number within a number...in above example, how many groups of 4 are in 20? They can then count by 4's to see how many they need to count to get to 20.
Social Studies: U.S. Symbols - what are they, some history and what do they represent?
Over break, please practice skip counting with your child (counting by 3's, 4's, etc.). This will help tremendously with multiplication and division. I will also be sending home a winter break homework packet for them to practice so no newly acquired skills are forgotten. Look for this in folders this week. It will be due when we come back in January. Ideally your child should work on it a little at a time to get consistent practice rather than completing the whole thing in a day. Lots of time spent reading would be great as well!
Reading: We continue to work on learning to be good independent readers. We practice strategies requiring increased independence. For example, encouraging students to pose their own question then find it in the text - then prove it by showing where it was found and finally tell whether it was explicitly stated or an inferred answer.
Writing: Writing paragraphs, indenting, using conventions consistently (punctuation, capitals). Also, we are going to practice letter writing this week.
Math: Division is hard but we are getting it done! I have shown them several representations/ strategies for division. They seem to be doing very well with using multiplication to divide (for example 20/4 = n is the same as 4 x n = 20). I have stressed that division means how many groups of a number within a number...in above example, how many groups of 4 are in 20? They can then count by 4's to see how many they need to count to get to 20.
Social Studies: U.S. Symbols - what are they, some history and what do they represent?