Hi Amazing Parents!
This was a busy week, but we made it through. The students loved the Holiday Shopping and hopefully bought some presents for members of their family as well as themselves.
Curriculum:
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. We shared the last nonfiction student writing presentation today. I have these all graded, but need to figure the average. These will be posted the first of next week and will be sent home in Thursday papers. I will only be sending home the rubric since I have their wonderful reports posted on our bulletin board!
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 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, we will be learning about centimeters and meters, but the students will be having a quiz on this next week.
We will have a math quiz on Tuesday over what we have learned so far in measurement. This will cover measuring with a ruler to the nearest inch and centimeter. 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.
Have a wonderful weekend,
Laura Lamaster
This was a busy week, but we made it through. The students loved the Holiday Shopping and hopefully bought some presents for members of their family as well as themselves.
Curriculum:
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. We shared the last nonfiction student writing presentation today. I have these all graded, but need to figure the average. These will be posted the first of next week and will be sent home in Thursday papers. I will only be sending home the rubric since I have their wonderful reports posted on our bulletin board!
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 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, we will be learning about centimeters and meters, but the students will be having a quiz on this next week.
We will have a math quiz on Tuesday over what we have learned so far in measurement. This will cover measuring with a ruler to the nearest inch and centimeter. 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.
Have a wonderful weekend,
Laura Lamaster