Hello Amazing Parents!
It has a been a busy week. The students loved the Holiday Shopping. Thank you to PTA for all your hard work with this!
Curriculum this week:
Writing/Grammar: The phonics sound for this week if /ow/. Red Words- Away, them, came, Review: when, because, very,who.
I am so proud of how far the students have come in writing. The students shared their writing and did an excellent job with their presentations. I have these graded and will entering these grades the first part of next week. I will be sending home the rubric of the nonfiction "books" the students created, but I have these amazing "books" on our bulletin board outside our classroom if you would like to check these out.
We are writing fiction narratives and the students are loving this so much they beg me to extend the time so they can write more. As I am conferencing individually with the students I am amazed at the creativity, not to mention applying the things they have been learning: introduction, transition words, organization, proper grammar, conclusion, etc.
Reading-Please make sure your child is reading for at least 15 minutes each night. The students bought so many good books during the book fair and I know they are excited to read them. I noticed when I signed agendas that some students hadn't read in awhile :( . They are reading fiction, which is always so much fun! You can also have your child read on iReady or RAZ kids. You can access iReady through the Fulton County Launchpad: https://launchpad.classlink.com and RAZ kids works better through an app, but this also depends on your technology device.
Math-Please make sure your child is getting on iReady, Math, and RedBird on the days they don't have math homework (M,W,F & Weekends). The students have made big improvements on their fact fluency. We are now at 84% accuracy for the entire class. We started the year at 42%!
We continue to study measurement. This includes reading a clock (digital & analog), inches, feet, yards. Next week we will have been talking about centimeters and meters, but the students won't be independently working on this until next week.
We will have a math quiz on Friday over what we have learned so far in measurement. This will cover measuring with a ruler to the nearest inch, centimeter, and word problems using these skills. Determining which unit of measure is best to measure an object, i.e.: gluestick-8 centimeters or 80 centimeters? If you need to borrow a ruler to study, please let me know.
We will have our final unit assessment over measurement on Thursday, November 15. I will be sending home a study guide in Thursday papers to help study for this assessment.
Have a wonderful weekend,
Laura Lamaster
It has a been a busy week. The students loved the Holiday Shopping. Thank you to PTA for all your hard work with this!
Curriculum this week:
Writing/Grammar: The phonics sound for this week if /ow/. Red Words- Away, them, came, Review: when, because, very,who.
I am so proud of how far the students have come in writing. The students shared their writing and did an excellent job with their presentations. I have these graded and will entering these grades the first part of next week. I will be sending home the rubric of the nonfiction "books" the students created, but I have these amazing "books" on our bulletin board outside our classroom if you would like to check these out.
We are writing fiction narratives and the students are loving this so much they beg me to extend the time so they can write more. As I am conferencing individually with the students I am amazed at the creativity, not to mention applying the things they have been learning: introduction, transition words, organization, proper grammar, conclusion, etc.
Reading-Please make sure your child is reading for at least 15 minutes each night. The students bought so many good books during the book fair and I know they are excited to read them. I noticed when I signed agendas that some students hadn't read in awhile :( . They are reading fiction, which is always so much fun! You can also have your child read on iReady or RAZ kids. You can access iReady through the Fulton County Launchpad: https://launchpad.classlink.com and RAZ kids works better through an app, but this also depends on your technology device.
Math-Please make sure your child is getting on iReady, Math, and RedBird on the days they don't have math homework (M,W,F & Weekends). The students have made big improvements on their fact fluency. We are now at 84% accuracy for the entire class. We started the year at 42%!
We continue to study measurement. This includes reading a clock (digital & analog), inches, feet, yards. Next week we will have been talking about centimeters and meters, but the students won't be independently working on this until next week.
We will have a math quiz on Friday over what we have learned so far in measurement. This will cover measuring with a ruler to the nearest inch, centimeter, and word problems using these skills. Determining which unit of measure is best to measure an object, i.e.: gluestick-8 centimeters or 80 centimeters? If you need to borrow a ruler to study, please let me know.
We will have our final unit assessment over measurement on Thursday, November 15. I will be sending home a study guide in Thursday papers to help study for this assessment.
Have a wonderful weekend,
Laura Lamaster