January Team BTE Newsletter
5th Grade at Waverly East LaMere/Chasse/Francis
Did you notice the change in the district calendar?
Math
We have been solving division problems the long way, with compatible numbers, and by rounding. Working with division is much easier when students know their multiplication facts fluently. Ask your child to show you the website we are working with to practice facts. If your find your child is not yet fluent with facts, another ten minutes a day at home with facts will be helpful. Mathplayground.com is a great site!!!!!!
Language Arts
We will be sending home a study guide this week with a review of Unit 2. Our Reading Street Unit 2 test will be Thursday and Friday. Students will compare and contrast two selections. There will be multiple choice questions for vocabulary, grammar and comprehension as well as two short written responses.
We will be writing one more personal narrative for publication this week. Students are learning to shift personal narrative writing to future and past tense and also to write a compelling ending. Next week we will move on to writing essays.
As always, we have weekly opportunities for practicing short responses with our Reading Street materials. Starting next week we will be working on a classroom novel until the first week of February. Title TBA. This is in lieu of our Reading Street lessons. You will not see spelling tests unit the first week of February. In addition Aimsweb fluency assessments will occur this week followed by our mid year NWEA testing later this month.
Science
Contact Information
Email: alamere@waverlyk12.net
Location: 3131 West Michigan Avenue, Lansing, MI, United States
Phone: 517-484-8830