*If your child's homeroom teacher is Mrs. Maldonado ~ Welcome! Hopefully you received my letter today in the Wed. folder. I have listed what I teach your child (either reading or math at the top of the page). Please read that section to know what we did today!
Math: Today we had a short math class due to the Bus Safety assembly. However, we had time to review 3 big items that are going to be on the math test tomorrow! We used practice problems on the Smartboard. Please help your child study by giving him/her practice problems from their study guide (pg. 23-26 in text). Students should have the correct answers since we went over them today. If you help your child practice and study tonight please sign the top of the study guide. The students can earn extra bonus points on the test with your signature! :)
HW: practice & study for test tomorrow
Maldonado HW: study for test tomorrow
Reading: Today we continued with our grammar with our morning flashback. We also practiced more on inferencing with a partner activity. Students have done very well with this! I think they are ready for their Exit Quiz tomorrow on inferencing! We also went over the AUTHOR STUDY the students will begin tomorrow. Students were given a partner to work with. This will be completed in class. Each class period the students will get 10 minutes to work. If the kids work hard and do not play around they should have no problem getting it completed. We went over this in depth today, so they are asked to show it to you and have you sign the paper. I only ask that you sign it so that I know you know what 'extra' thing they are working on. I've also placed a link to the websites for the project on my blog. Either click the all caps words above or look to the right of my blog under the "Check it Out" section and click. Students were also given content papers to work on in their lit. groups. All students were working on context clues and inferencing and how that was shown in their Lit. Group book.
HW: Get Author Study paper signed by a parent
Maldonado HW: none
Science: Today for science we reviewed the stages of the Life Cycle and completed an activity where students had to put together 2 different life cycles. Students did very well with this! We also labeled what each was with the stage. Then students used different science vocab they have learned and created an animal. They are really neat! I'll grade them tonight and hopefully get them back to the kids so they can show you! The students had to label and classify all different parts to that animal!
No HW
Writing: Today we went over how to edit correctly ~ getting us ready to meet our Writing Groups! Hopefully we will begin working on our first real piece soon! :)
No HW
AR Points: I've finally given all the kids their AR goals! If you are not familiar with AR, please look it up on our school website under the Library tab. It's really neat! The individual goals are set for each student based on their MAP Lexile score. So, the goal given to your child is based on what he/she can read with reading 20 minutes per night. If your child is not reading 20 min. per night please remind them it is daily homework with the Reading Log. This goal will expire after the 1st 9 weeks and they will receive a new goal. *Please sign this sheet in their planner so I know you have seen this!*
Volunteers: Wow! I had a lot of parents willing to volunteer! Thank you! I am currently working on a monthly calendar to hand out so you know when we would love to have you! Most people signed up under 'copies' so I will try and accommodate that to you! :) I promise to have it out soon! I do appreciate you!
Have a great night,
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