Good Morning Haigh families 🙂 I hope you are all enjoying this SUMMER weather we have going on. My family and I embraced the sun and enjoyed a day at the beach yesterday.
This week we will continue to complete our NWEA testing in all areas. We are almost done with these.
Students took their first spelling and academic vocabulary test on Friday. They did a pretty good job for their first academic vocabulary test. Please look for their test in their owl folder tomorrow to check out their grades.
Our new academic vocabulary words are:
- Elapsed time- the difference between the start time and the end time.
- County- a division of a state. Michigan is divided into 83 counties.
- Geography- the study of places.
- Force- a push or a pull on an object.
- Moral- a life lesson.
**Spelling and vocabulary test is on Friday 9/29**
We will continue to work on fables as we review our CAFE strategies this week. We will be looking deeper at the characters in the stories we have read and work on selecting traits to describe our characters based on evidence from the text.
We will focus on elapsed time all week. This is usually a tough concept for students of all ages so your support at home helps tremendously. We will begin our math rotations this week so students can review telling time, addition concepts, and work on elapsed time in small groups. Last week students practiced logging in and taking a pretest for frontrowed.com. This is an excellent website for students to practice math concepts as well as fact fluency practice. Multiplication facts are never to early to begin mastering! Students are able to sign in at home. The class code is: halim9
During our Michigan studies this week we learned how geographers used relative location to describe different locations. We used the desk maps to practice using cardinal directions to describe cities that are relative to Detroit. This week we will continue to look at Michigan’s location and the important characteristics that make Michigan a beautiful place to live.
This week in science we will begin our first science unit on force and motion.
This week is looking to be another HOT one. Please make sure your child is dressed appropriately and think about sending a water bottle along with them each day. The temperature in our classroom rises by the hour. Frequent water breaks are needed to keep everyone safe and smiling.
Thank you for your support. The classroom routines are beginning to run smoothly and our daily schedule is working well. This year is looking to be GREAT!
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