Dear Amazing Parents,
I hope everyone is relaxing and enjoying their extended weekend with their family. Visit my website:
to sign up for parent/teacher conferences. I have also included the Curriculum Night PP for those that might have missed, or need extra information. Both of these are on my blog on my website. Just click the green buttons at the top of my newsletter on my website.
Some students do not have earbuds ($1.00 at Dollar Tree) or headphones. Please put these in a Ziplock baggie with your child's name on it. They can keep these in their backpack. We will be using technology for our stations and testing and we don't have good working headphones for everyone. Thank you!!
This will be a short week, but a very busy week:
Writing/English:
- We are complete sentences, proper punctuation, subject, nouns, predicate. In writing the students have been learning and writing about personal narratives. We will be working on strong introduction, developing a small moment with details, and editing. I will be conferencing with students about their writing this week. They will also be sharing there writing with other students and the class.
- Word Work: Skill: Review Magic E, ph, and blends. Friday Assessment: Words: phone, base, save, life, tone, line, Red words: when, your, about, from, than.
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- We had a quiz over the Georgia Regions. We will be studying major rivers in Georgia this week. I will be sending home a study guide this week (Thursday folders) for our first social studies assessment over the Georgia Regions, landforms. and rivers of Georgia.
- I have many parents that ask how they can help their child be successful on reading tests. The best way is to read with your child each night, listen, ask questions, guide them to higher level thinking. Please make sure and log the reading information into your child's agenda on the date they read. You need to put the story your child is reading along with numbers of minutes read (at least 10 min) and your initials. If you aren't reading with your child, please ask them questions to make sure they are understanding what they are reading. Students are learning how to read bigger and bigger chunks of words (scooping up words). I am conferencing with each child, checking reading, fluency, & comprehension.
Math :
We started timed math addition fact fluency and will begin to graph these results to set goals and see progress. These will be kept in their math data binders. If you child is struggling with 1 digit addition, flash cards and online games would be very helpful to make your child successful with these timed activities.
We have been working on number sense, place value, greater than, less than, number patterns, skip counting (2's, 5's, 10's, and 100's) and fact fluency. We will have a quiz this week over fact fluency, skip counting, and place value.
We will be starting an online math program, Prodigy, that is great to help reinforce math skills and math fluency. I will give them their username and password this week.
Thanks for all the support at home,
Laura Lamaster
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