Dear Parents,
I enjoyed meeting with you all during conference week. Please feel free to contact me if you need any further information about your child's progress.
THANK YOU to all the parents who provided pumpkins and pumpkin treats for our our wonderful Pumpkin Math Day! Also a big thank you to the volunteers that led the small groups through their math activities. The children learned a lot about pumpkins and had fun too!
Please click on the page links on the right to see the Standards we will be working on for each curriculum area in the second nine weeks.
This week we will be working on the following:
Math: Plane shapes (Label and identify number of sides and corners - circle, square, rectangle, triangle, pentagon and hexagon). Continue Missing Addends.
Ongoing: Revision of these concepts and skills - Fact Families (eg. related facts make a fact family eg. 3+2=5, 2+3=5, 5-3=2, 5-2=3) Review subtraction to 12 - concept and vocabulary (subtract, take away, minus, how many left?). Review Place Value - identifying tens and ones in a given number (For example: 26 is 2 tens and 6 ones),continuing simple addition to 12 (no regrouping). Using the ‘Counting on’ strategy to add two numbers (put one number in your head and count on to find the sum), adding zero to a number and adding doubles (4+4+8, 3+3+6 etc...) Math problem solving, graphs, days of the week and months of the year. Counting coin combinations up to 30 cents (pennies, nickels and dimes), skip counting in 5's and 10's. Counting combinations of bills up to $20. Missing addends ( 3 + _ = 7 or 5 + 3 = 2 + _ )
Literacy - Inflectional endings - add s, ed or ing to a root word. Identify compound words (Rain + bow = rainbow)
Identify long vowel sounds (rake, bike, woke,tube). Learn the rule - when two vowels go walking the first does the talking - for example meat, rain, road, reed. Silent 'e' as in cake, note, ride, use. Writer's Workshop - Write a creative narrative. Identify the beginning, middle and end of a story. Nouns (name of a person, place or thing), adjectives (describing words).
Ongoing: Responding to stories and poems, initial letter sounds, short and long vowels, antonyms (opposites such as happy and sad, tall and short). Synonyms (words that means the same thing but are spelled differently such as big and large, sad and unhappy). Writer's workshop - writing a journal entry (personal narrative), writing a letter. Identifying a complete sentence (capital letter at beginning, punctuation at the end, tells a complete idea or thought and must be written legibly with finger spaces). Having a good beginning when writing (One sunny morning, Last Saturday, Once upon a time, In the winter etc...) Narrative story elements - identify the main character(s) and the setting. Identify the problem in a story and how the problem was solved (the solution) .
Social Studies - Thomas Jefferson
Handwriting - Letter Qq
Reminders:
NO school on Tuesday, November 8th
Please check red folders daily.
Homework folders due on Friday.
Spelling Quiz on Friday!
Media Center on Friday - please return all library books
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