News from the Jungle
January 20, 2017
This week we began NWEA testing. We will continue with this testing next week as well. Please have your child practice using the links I posted previously. Here is a link to the blog post which includes the practice sites:
https://iblog.dearbornschools.org/dimitriou/2016/12/21/nwea-map-testing-practice/
Upcoming Events
1/23 Scholastic Book Order due
1/23 Leaders for Life Assembly – Send children in Detroit Lions gear/colors
1/27 ½ Day – dismissal 11:45
1/27 Pizza Kit Delivery ***Must pick up orders between 11:45 – 3:00pm
1/30 PBIS PARTY – School-wide BINGO
Agenda for the Week
Reading/Writing: We reviewed adjectives, nouns, and verbs this week. This week we focused more on nouns and verbs. We are working on stretching our sentences to include more details (who is the story/sentence about, where are they, what do they look like, what are they doing, etc).
Spelling words for next week will be in the homework packet coming home on Monday.
Please continue to have your child practice writing at home. Here is what I am looking for in class:
Uppercase to start the sentence
End punctuation (. ! ?)
Finger spaces between words
Does the sentence make sense? Are the words in the correct order?
Does the picture match the words?
Did you stretch your sentence? (Is there a noun, adjective, and verb?)
Math: We took our +3 math quizzes. Today, I sent home the +3 flashcards. We will take the +4 quiz on Friday, January 27th.
We continue to learn about addition. We have been practicing using a number line to add numbers together. We also have been using a strategy called “counting on” where the child imagines the larger number in their head and displays the smaller number on their hands by putting up that number of fingers. Then they touch their head and say the larger number, then count up from there on their fingers to find the total.
Please continue to practice counting by 1’s, 5’s, and 10’s to 100 with your child at home. Also practice counting to 30 by 2’s (2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20…..). Other activities you can practice at home are using tally marks to count objects, identifying 2D/3D shapes around the house of community, and really making sure your child has good one-to-one correspondence when counting (this means that they touch each object as they are counting and count all objects correctly).
Social Studies: We continued talking about history and what timelines are and how they are used. We shared our timeline projects with each other and the children enjoyed talking about their past.
Housekeeping Items:
If you would like to leave boots and snow pants at school in your child’s locker, please feel free to do so! Just send me a note so that I know that they need to stay here through the week.
Please make sure reading books are placed back in the green book pouches each night and returned to school every morning.
Please make sure to record the reading that you do with your child each night on the reading log in the homework.
The easiest way to get ahold of me during the day is through my email at dimitrm@dearbornschools.org. If the children are working independently on a task, I can easily check my email and send a quick reply.
Please make sure to empty the green folders each night! It is very difficult and time consuming to locate homework or important notes when the folder is full of papers from the day before.
