Miss Branchick's Newsletter
November 23-24
Acuity Tests
I am encouraging students to continue to work on practice assignments on Acuity here at school but they can also work on these assignments at home. You just have to go to www.acuityathome.com and students will log in with their username/password. Their usernames will have the IN at the end.
Example: JohnSmithIN
These assignments were generated after the last Acuity test they took and were based on questions they missed. The more practice they get on these skills, they better prepared they will be.
I use their Acuity skills to form small groups during RTI. Most of the these have been covered in class since the last test but there are still some we haven't worked on yet.
If you have any questions, please let me know.
This week in room 506
Math-
Teacher Pace - Unit 7 Solids and Shapes
10-1 Solid Figures
10-2 Relating Solids and Shapes
10-3 Lines and Line Segments
10-5 Polygons
10-7 Quadrilaterals
Real World Story Problems
Standards:
3.G.1- Identify and describe the following: cube, sphere, prism, pyramid, cone, cylinder
3.G.2- Understand that shapes may share characteristics and can be in multiple categories (squares can be categorized as a quadrilateral or parallelogram)
3.G.3- Identify, describe, and draw points, lines, and line segments.
Miss Branchick's Math Class- Unit 9 Patterns and Relationships
Monday- Review/Reassess unmastered standards
Tuesday- Review/Reassess unmastered standards
Friday November 20 until Thanksgiving Break will be review. We will be starting Unit 10 after break.
Social Studies:
We are reviewing Chapter 2 and taking the chapter 2 assessment on Tuesday
Writing-
We have started our Informational Writing Unit. Everyone picked an Endangered Animal to research. We have started writing our rough drafts! When we are finished writing, we will be typing them up before publishing them!
We are also teaming up with Miss Sweet in art class. She has graciously allowed us to incorporate our Endangered Animals into their Landscape portraits! I can't wait to see the finished products!
Reading- This might only apply to my reading class - some classes have already finished Unit 2 Week 5 and will be reviewing all of Unit 2 until Thanksgiving Break
We will be taking our Unit 2 Week 5 assessment on Tuesday, November 24th.
- Literary Elements: Alliteration and Rhyme
- Skill: Point of View (in literature)
- Genre: Poetry
- Vocabulary Skill: Simile
- Phonics: Digraphs (two letters that make ONE sound, like sh, ch)
Spelling:
1.) pitch
2.) crunch
3.) reach
4.) shadow
5.) thick
6.) teacher
7.) stretch
8.) chuckled
9.) pathway
10.) whales
11.) cheese
12.) search
13.) seashells
14.) weather
15.) what
Unit 2 Week 5 Vocab
1.) bounce- To bounce is to spring back after hitting something
2.) imagine- To imagine something is to picture it in your mind.
3.) inventor- An inventor is a person who creates something for the first time.
4.) observer- An observer is someone who watches something.
5.) alliteration- Alliteration occurs when several words or syllables in a row start with the same sound.
6.) free verse- In a free verse poem, some verses rhyme and some do not.
7.) limerick- A limerick is a funny poem of five lines with a specific rhyme pattern.
8.) rhyme- Kite and sight rhyme because they end with the same sound.
Scholastic Book Orders
Orders can be submitted any time you or I place an order because I have free shipping this year =)
Websites
- ScootPad
- TenMarks
- Acuity
- Tumblebooks (username northelementary / password books)
- MasteryConnect
- Symbaloo (username kbranchick@danville.k12.in.us / password room506) - this website has links to kid approved websites we use at school)
- IXL - a great website for students to practice skills from any subject!
Tumblebooks is registered for grades K-4 so North and South share.