WHello Amazing Parents,
We are planning our next field trip. It is going to be on February 22 to the Chattahoochee Nature Center. I sent home permission slips today in your child's blue folders. Please fill out and return along with the $ for the field trip. The students are already getting excited about this.
To help students prepare for all the typing they will need in the upper grades and for Georgia Milestones (all done online), Fulton County has purchased a program to help students. It is called Learning.com and it has been a huge success! All lessons are self-paced, and learning is individualized so that students can re-work a lesson to improve their score. Using fun and interactive videos, K-1 students learned where letters A-Z and numbers are on the keyboard. Grades 2-5 began with lessons on posture and home keys. Ask your children if they enjoyed learning about typing/keyboarding in the Media Center! This resource is free to all families and is located on your child’s Launchpad.
Curriculum this week:
Social Studies: We will finish Jimmy Carter and begin Julliette Gordon Low this week. Be sure your child has finished their BrainPopJr video and quiz for Martin Luther King. Make sure they login and use the code: lamaster1718 so they get credit and I can enter their grade. Thanks for all your support and help! They feel pretty grown up doing this at home.
English: In writing we continue to learn about poems. I am loving reading their poems. They are so creative. They have been learning about figurative language for both reading and writing. We are learning similes, metaphors, and how we use repetition and figurative language to give poems meaning and make them interesting. We are also learning about how words can create a mood in a poem. They took a quiz over irregular past tense verbs and we will continue studying parts of speech and verbs this week as well. Word work this week: We are studying the /ild/, /old/, /ind/, /olt/, /ost/ words Skills words: wild, gold, mind, jolt, post. Red Words- want, today, big, how any
Reading: Please make sure your child is reading every night. Research has shown that reading a lot and often has the most impact to help them in all grade levels. I have updated many of the students in RAZ kids and I noticed that some of the students are not reading and taking the quizzes after they read. If they don't take the quiz, it doesn't show that they have read anything. In reading we just finished reading The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulaine We review our reading skills as we read this wonderful story. We discussed summarizing, figurative language, inferences, characters, how characters change throughout the story, and figuring out tricky words by looking at the word in context. I read with each of the students this week and took a fluency and comprehension quiz. I am so proud of how much the students have improved so far this year! Don't forget about having your child get on iReady at home as well. Let me know if you are having problems with this.
Math:
2.2-The students are busy regrouping and borrowing with addition and subtraction. They took a quiz over this on Friday. I still have a few more students that need to take this quiz, but these will go home in blue folders on Thursday. This week we will begin regrouping and borrowing with 4 digit numbers. I am realizing that some of the students are struggling with subtraction because they don't know their facts. Please make sure your child knows their facts! When we get to problem solving this week and next they will be lost if they are struggling with their facts and figuring out the word problem as well. It gets to be a frustration point for the students because it is just too much to figure out. Please have your child go to my website under math lessons to help them review what we are learning in class: http://: http://mslamaster.weebly.com/math-lessons1
Also, don't forget iReady and Redbird for math. On the days they don't have homework it is very important that they practice using these websites to help them with all the math skills.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Laura
We are planning our next field trip. It is going to be on February 22 to the Chattahoochee Nature Center. I sent home permission slips today in your child's blue folders. Please fill out and return along with the $ for the field trip. The students are already getting excited about this.
To help students prepare for all the typing they will need in the upper grades and for Georgia Milestones (all done online), Fulton County has purchased a program to help students. It is called Learning.com and it has been a huge success! All lessons are self-paced, and learning is individualized so that students can re-work a lesson to improve their score. Using fun and interactive videos, K-1 students learned where letters A-Z and numbers are on the keyboard. Grades 2-5 began with lessons on posture and home keys. Ask your children if they enjoyed learning about typing/keyboarding in the Media Center! This resource is free to all families and is located on your child’s Launchpad.
Curriculum this week:
Social Studies: We will finish Jimmy Carter and begin Julliette Gordon Low this week. Be sure your child has finished their BrainPopJr video and quiz for Martin Luther King. Make sure they login and use the code: lamaster1718 so they get credit and I can enter their grade. Thanks for all your support and help! They feel pretty grown up doing this at home.
English: In writing we continue to learn about poems. I am loving reading their poems. They are so creative. They have been learning about figurative language for both reading and writing. We are learning similes, metaphors, and how we use repetition and figurative language to give poems meaning and make them interesting. We are also learning about how words can create a mood in a poem. They took a quiz over irregular past tense verbs and we will continue studying parts of speech and verbs this week as well. Word work this week: We are studying the /ild/, /old/, /ind/, /olt/, /ost/ words Skills words: wild, gold, mind, jolt, post. Red Words- want, today, big, how any
Reading: Please make sure your child is reading every night. Research has shown that reading a lot and often has the most impact to help them in all grade levels. I have updated many of the students in RAZ kids and I noticed that some of the students are not reading and taking the quizzes after they read. If they don't take the quiz, it doesn't show that they have read anything. In reading we just finished reading The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulaine We review our reading skills as we read this wonderful story. We discussed summarizing, figurative language, inferences, characters, how characters change throughout the story, and figuring out tricky words by looking at the word in context. I read with each of the students this week and took a fluency and comprehension quiz. I am so proud of how much the students have improved so far this year! Don't forget about having your child get on iReady at home as well. Let me know if you are having problems with this.
Math:
2.2-The students are busy regrouping and borrowing with addition and subtraction. They took a quiz over this on Friday. I still have a few more students that need to take this quiz, but these will go home in blue folders on Thursday. This week we will begin regrouping and borrowing with 4 digit numbers. I am realizing that some of the students are struggling with subtraction because they don't know their facts. Please make sure your child knows their facts! When we get to problem solving this week and next they will be lost if they are struggling with their facts and figuring out the word problem as well. It gets to be a frustration point for the students because it is just too much to figure out. Please have your child go to my website under math lessons to help them review what we are learning in class: http://: http://mslamaster.weebly.com/math-lessons1
Also, don't forget iReady and Redbird for math. On the days they don't have homework it is very important that they practice using these websites to help them with all the math skills.
Have a wonderful weekend!
Laura