Ms. Arnold's Weekly News
Week of 1-15-18
Next Week (1-22-18) Is National Kindness Challenge Week
This Week
Tuesday: Lexia; gym; Lexia Quarterly Rapid Assessment; Daddy Daughter Dance $ was due
Wednesday: Lexia; computers
Thursday: Lexia; gym; school nurse talks "healthy snacks" with 3rd graders
Friday: red folders come home; new spelling list comes home; Cardinal Connections
Due Dates/Upcoming
Week of January 22nd: National Kindness Challenge Week
Sat, January 20th: Daddy Daughter Dance 6-8pm
Friday, January 26th: Keicher Lock-In 6-9pm
Week of February 5th: Cookies for Kindness (see link/note attached)
Friday, February 9th: Saxophone Quartet Visits Michigan Center (Keicher 8:40-9:10)
Tuesday, February 13th: Spring Pictures
Wednesday, February 14th: Spring Count Day
Friday, February 16th: 1/2 day (dismissal @ 11:38am)
-Start of Winter Break
Monday, February 19th: No School
Friday, February 23rd: Keicher Lock-In 6-9pm
Weekly Learning Targets
Reading:
On a daily/weekly basis, students get focused lessons on good reading habits, fluency and comprehension, shared reading, book of the day read-alouds, conferencing, a variety of reading skills and strategies, the tools in the classroom to help them, choice reading, content area reading, goal setting, booktalks and book trailers, and author and genre discussions and reflections. As the year progresses, students will be building a reading portfolio on SeeSaw as well as creating Greenscreen and Stop Motion videos on their favorite books in hopes to persuade other readers to read that book. I will continue to communicate our learning targets each week.
Ongoing Reading Learning Targets...
-I can pick a just fit book that's just right for me using the IPICK Strategy.
-I can practice good reading habits by rereading to check my comprehension.
-I can demonstrate my comprehension through writing which includes providing evidence from the text to support my thinking. (summarizing-reflecting and discuss-evidence)
-I can track my character's names to better understand what I read.
-I can practice my accuracy, expression, smoothness, and pace of reading to become a more fluent reader.
-I can use transition words to help write an organized and detailed book summary.
-I can use the tools/resources in the world to help me learn more about books, genres, and authors that are available to me. (libraries, stores, Google Images, Amazon, Kids Choice Awards, classmate recommendations, author websites, etc.)
-I can identify the problem(s) that my characters are facing and how they solve them in my story.
-I can make connections (text to self, text to text, text to world) to what's happening in my story, to my character's, and the settings in my story.
-I can make predictions to what's happening in my story, to what my character's say, think, act, or react, and to where my characters are going throughout the story.
This Week's Reading Learning Targets...
-I can determine an author's message/lesson/theme in the books I am reading.
-I can determine the "author's purpose" of the book that I am reading.
-I can identify if the book I am reading is fiction or nonfiction.
-I can identify the genre of the book that I am reading.
This Week's Writing Learning Targets...
-I can notice characteristics of an opinion writing while reading different texts.
-I can express my opinion on different topics and support my opinion with reasons why it is my opinion.
-I can write a persuasive book talk and use SeeSaw and/or Greenscreen to share my talk with other readers.
-I can write a persuasive paragraph that includes my opinion and reason/examples to support my opinion on a topic of my choice.
Math Learning Targets: (unit: multiplication and division)
-I can explain what multiplication means. (groups of) (make many of)
-I can solve for the product using equal groups and repeated addition.
-I can fluently multiply and divide up to 100. (basic facts)
Science and Engineering Learning Targets: (unit: animals through time)
-In this week's Mystery, students explored the idea that the rock under our feet sometimes contains fossils. These fossils reveal how habitats have changed through time. Students also took a survey of their classmates' favorite sport and used their data to make a bar graph.
Side Note:
Students will not have science and social studies unit tests throughout the year nor will they have homework in those areas. Math is the only subject where students will have some homework but never on a weekly basis. At the end of a math unit, students will have a study guide to complete at home prior to the unit test. Writing pieces are not sent home until the end of the unit. Our first piece, the narrative, takes most if not all of the first trimester. Students will post work on SeeSaw often. My hope is that SeeSaw will help keep you informed on what your child is doing in school on a regular basis in the classroom.
***Social Studies content standards are mostly covered in the third trimester.
Multiplication and Division Sentences
Multiplication Strategies
List #14 (words with oi, oy)
1. coy
2. soil
3. foil
4. toil
5. coins
6. point
7. noise
8. loyal
9. boiled
10. spoiled
11. enjoys
12. voice
13. choice
14. soybean
15. joyful
16. noisy
*Tests are on Fridays on SpellingCity!
*Pleaes note: If your child is absent on a Friday, please have them take their spelling test at home on the weekend (on Spelling City)! Thank you!
Keicher Newsletter
Special Note From the Administration Office For MC Parents/Families
Attention MC Families,
If you have any TRANSPORTATION NEEDS, for ex. changing bus stops, adding students to a bus, or needing your student to ride a different bus home, PLEASE CONTACT THE TRANSPORTATION OFFICE DIRECTLY @ 517.867.5713.
All school personnel are instructed to FORWARD any questions, issues or requests to the TRANSPORTATION OFFICE.
Also, if you would like your student to ride another bus home or get off at a different stop, you MUST call to the TRANSPORTATION OFFICE in a timely manner.
Jr/Sr High: no later than 1:00pm
Arnold/ Keicher: no later than 3:00pm
If you call AFTER these times, there will be NO guarantee your student will be allowed to ride or get on/off a unauthorized bus /location.
Thank you for your cooperation and help with this matter.
BOX TOPS! BOX TOPS! PLEASE COLLECT YOUR BOX TOPS!
Ms. Arnold
Email: Stacy.Arnold@mccardinals.org
Website: smore.com
Location: Keicher Elementary School, Broad Street, Michigan Center, MI, United States
Phone: 5177645200
Facebook: facebook.com/KeicherArnold
Twitter: @MsArnoldClass3