Ms. Arnold's Weekly News
Week of 1-8-18
Thank you for all your generosity this holiday season!
This Week
Tuesday: Lexia; gym
Wednesday: Lexia; computers
Thursday: Lexia; gym
Friday: red folders come home; new spelling list comes home
Due Dates/Upcoming
Monday, January 15th: No School (Teacher PD Day)
Sat, January 20th: Daddy Daughter Dance 6-8pm
Friday, January 26th: Keicher Lock-In 6-9pm
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 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 Greenscreen to share my talk with other readers.
-I can write a persuasive paragraph on a topic of my choice.
Math Learning Targets: (unit: multiplication and division)
-I can explain what multiplication means.
-I can solve for the product using equal groups or repeated addition.
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 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 #13 (prefixes re- un- pre- mis-)
1. misfile
2. unwanted
3. recycle
4. undone
5. presale
6. misread
7. recall
8. precut
9. unload
10. misnumber
11. unfair
12. mistreat
13. unhappy
14. retold
15. preplan
16. uncertain
*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!
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Ms. Arnold
Email: Stacy.Arnold@mccardinals.org
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Location: Keicher Elementary School, Broad Street, Michigan Center, MI, United States
Phone: 5177645200
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