What's Up...in room 107?
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Announcements for December 14-18 will be listed here.
This week...follow the Google Classroom Calendar, or get your student to show you how you can have live updates of activities and grades online.
Monday- "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever" Newberry Winner
Tuesday- "The House without a Christmas Tree" by Jason Robards and a Christmas activity with Mrs. Lovvorn...Thank you! :)
Wednesday- "The Polar Express" Day!...Students may wear PJs
Thursday-Kindergarten Play and Christmas Parties!
Friday- HALF DAY FOR STUDENTS (WE WILL HAVE LUNCH EARLY)
**Enjoy the holidays!**
Important News
Students are working towards AR, Reading, Math, and Individual Goals. Please encourage your students to explain their Data. Additionally, please note that beginning in January students will begin bringing them home once per week.
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Currently, if you didn't get emails from FrontRow and Google Calendar and would like one, please send me an email!
Reading/ELA Focus Wall: Skill Spotlight & Resources
*See Picture Attachment
*(Spelling) Phonics- /ü/: oo, ew, u_e, ue, u, ui, ou; /u̇/: oo, ou
*Vocabulary-
- aroma- An aroma is a pleasant or agreeable smell or fragrance.
- expect- To expect means to think or suppose something.
- flavorful- When something is flavorful , it is tasty and full of flavor.
- graceful- Something that is graceful is beautiful or pleasing in design, movement, or style.
- interrupted- When something is interrupted , it is stopped for a time or broken off.
- luscious- Something that is luscious smells or tastes delicious.
- variety- A variety is a number of different things.
Text Type- Reading Literature (Folktales)
Comprehension Strategy
- Ask and answer questions to demonstrate an understanding of a text, referring explicitly to the text as the basis for the answers.
Comprehension Skill
- Distinguish their own point of view from that of the narrator or those of the characters.
Language (Word Work)
- Determine the meaning of the new word formed when a known affix is added to a known word (e.g., agreeable/ disagreeable, comfortable/ uncomfortable, care/careless, heat/ preheat).
- Use a known root word as a clue to the meaning of an unknown word with the same root (e.g., company, companion).
Grammar
- Noun (Review): A noun is a person, place, thing, quality, or act. Examples: pencil, girl, supermarket, happiness
- Verb: Verbs are action or existence words that tell what nouns do. Examples: to fly, to run, to be, jump, lived
- Adjective: An adjective describes a noun. Examples: hairy, crazy, wonderful
- Adverb: An adverb describes a verb, adjective, or adverb. It often ends in "ly". Examples: carefully, easily, barely
Math Focus Wall: Skill Spotlight & Resources
Focuses:
●Two step problems (all operations)
●Round to the nearest 100
●Adding and subtracting within 3 digits
Geometry
●Area in addition to perimeter reviewed from earlier unit) Understand that shapes in different categories (e.g., rhombuses, rectangles, and others) may share attributes (e.g., having four sides), and that the shared attributes can define a larger category (e.g., quadrilaterals). Recognize rhombuses, rectangles, and squares as examples of quadrilaterals, and draw examples of quadrilaterals that do not belong to any of these subcategories.
●(Partition only) shapes into parts with equal areas.
Ongoing standards/skills
●Understand properties of multiplication and the relationship between multiplication and division.
●Multiply and divide within 100.
Students should be fluent and integrating fluency within multi-step word problems here.
●Solve problems involving the four operations, and identify and explain patterns in arithmetic.
●Geometric measurement: understand concepts of area and relate area to multiplication and to addition.
Be Brave
Email: lindsay.sims@acs-k12.org
Website: https://classroom.google.com/c/MTUwMzUzNTE5
Phone: 256-771-7150
Twitter: @JNES3LS