Ms. Arnold's Weekly News
Week of 9-8-17
Our Class Motto: Perseverance
"Being persistent & never giving up!"
A Favorite Beginning of the Year Video!!!!!
This Week
Tuesday: Lexia Time; Wrapped up DRA Testing; Gym; math paper was due; red folder returned; book orders were due
Wednesday: Lexia Time; Computers
Thursday: Lexia Time; Gym; visited the school library
Friday: Lexia Time or Spelling City; No specials; STEAM Challenge; red folders sent home
Class Shirt money & order form due Friday, Sept 15th!!!!!!!!
Weekly Learning Targets
It has been an outstanding 10 1/2 days! Lots of hard work, patience, and listening!
We are continuing to establish reading workshop habits and routines. 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.
This Week's Reading Learning Targets...
-I can pick a just fit book that's just right for me using the IPICK Strategy.
-I can practice my fluency in order to become a more fluent reader.
-And many routines and procedures practiced
Math, Writing, and Science:
This week students began getting acclimated to the ins and outs of the workshop style of learning across all subjects. It takes time to practice and learn the routines, habits, and procedures. Our first units are...math (geometry), writing (narrative), and science (force and motion).
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.
#1 SHORT VOWELS AND SILENT E
2. step
3. sick
4. rock
5. luck
6. crop
7. snack
8. mess
9. date
10. fine
11. rose
12. lake
13. life
14. home
15. safe
*Spelling lists are sent home at the end of each week. Students can access their words at anytime on Spelling City. Spelling tests are taken on Spelling City on Friday mornings. Students will post their test results on SeeSaw vs. printing a paper copy each week. I ask that students who are absent on Fridays to take their spelling test at home over the weekend. Thank you!
#3rdgradershardatwork
Partner Lego Listening Creations
Intro to Greenscreen with Mrs. Sharp
Building an Apple Tower (Team Work Time)
Keicher News
Ms. Arnold
Email: Stacy.Arnold@mccardinals.org
Location: Keicher Elementary School, Broad Street, Michigan Center, MI, United States
Phone: 5177645200
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