Here is what you can expect your child to be doing and learning in class this week. As always, please contact me with any questions.
Important Dates:
Conferences will continue on Tuesday and Thursday evening. Reminder notes went home last week with the time and date for your child’s conference. Please contact me if you need to change your time or date and I will do my best to accommodate. Students are encouraged to come to conferences with parents as part of the conference will be student led.
Language Arts:
This week we will focus on informational writing. We will learn how to identify the main idea of a text and how to find supporting details.
Reading groups will continue throughout the week. Please make sure your child is reading the books in their bag each night and completing any writing assignments they have for these books. After your child reads, ask them questions about the books, setting, characters, problem, and solution. See if they can orally retell the story using only the main events and important details without copying sentences from the book.
Writing:
We will continue our narrative writing prompt, “Going to the Movies.” We will be drafting our big events using sensory details and clear transitions.
Math:
We will continue to focus on multiplication and division as we move along to lesson 16 in Module one of Eureka Math. I am seeing so much growth in our class as mathematicians. This new math program is very challenging but the class is seeing that with a little bit of effort and hard work, we can reach these high expectations!
Students have been using the following websites in class to help reinforce math concepts. These websites can also be accessed at home for free. Student passwords are taped inside planners.
- Zearn.org – This website provides extra practice for concepts taught in class. It follows very closely with the new Eureka Math program that the district has adopted this year.
- xtramath.org – This website will help students with fact fluency. A flyer went home on Friday with information on how to set up your free account.
Science:
Our focus for science will continue to be force and motion. We will being thinking again about friction and what makes things go fast or slow down.
Geography:
This week we will learn about Michigan’s natural resources and how human interaction can change the environment.
Spelling:
This week, we will focus on multisyllabic words. Students will get 5 multisyllabic words and 5 content words to study for Friday’s test. On Friday, students will be tested on these words, along with 5 surprise words that follow the multisyllabic pattern and 5 additional words from the sight words list that was provided two weeks ago.
Have a great week!!!