Week at a Glance
October 17 - October 21
Be sure to check your child's homework folder!
Yankee Candle Fundraiser- ENDS MONDAY
1st El Paso Block Party
BOX TOPS
What are we doing in Mathematics?
What's happening in Reading?
Story
We are jumping back into our Reading curriculum with the story "One Small Place in a Tree". We will get to explore the different kinds of animals that can use a tree as a home throughout all of the seasons.
Comprehension Strategies
ask and answer questions, visualizing, author's purpose, cause & effect
Spelling Words
along, bought, close, something, seem, laughed, lady, enough, graph, paragraph, photograph, particle, atom, element, property, decimal
Daily 4
We've had success with Read to Self, Work on Writing, and Word Work. We will continue to practice the correct routines and procedures with Word Work as the week progresses. Hopefully next week we will get to introduce and practice Listening to Reading where students will get to choose a story to listen to and get to follow along with the book using the iPads. This helps us practice our reading fluency (reading out loud) and being able to read with expression.
Language Foundations...what's that??
Resources
Questions to ask your student to help learn about each day
- Tell me about the best part of your day.
- What was the hardest thing you had to do today?
- Did any of your classmates do anything funny?
- Tell me about what you read in class.
- What do most of the kids do at recess?
- Do you think math [or any subject] is too easy or too hard?
- What's the biggest difference between this year and last year?
- What rules are different at school than our rules at home? Do you think they're fair?
- Who did you sit with at lunch? What do you talk about?
- Can you show me something you learned (or did) today?
Upcoming Events in October
17th- Yankee Candle Fundraiser Ends
19th- 3 PM Fundraiser pick up
22nd- 1st El Paso Block Party from 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM24th-26th- Red Ribbon Week
25th/27th- Conferences
31st- Fall Party- parade in the AM/party in the PM