We hope everyone is recovering from staying up late to watch the Cubs win the World Series!
We know all of our baseball fans were excited about this historical win!
This week has gone by quickly and we have been very busy. This is a critical time of the year with lots of new and very important standards being introduced. Please stress to your student the importance of staying on task during instruction, asking questions when needed, and completing homework assignments! We are beginning new standards and homework is important. We are often limited on practice time in class and homework allows your child an opportunity to get in a little extra practice that could make the difference. It also allows you to see how they are progressing with the standards. If your child does their homework in ASP, we encourage you to go over it with them when they get home, so that you can witness their level of understanding.
Our Wonderful Room Mom is putting together a Sign Up Genius for our Explorer Feast on November 18th. Please try to help us out by sending in food or coming in to help serve!
Read Below for other Important Dates!
Monday 11/7: Kroger Math Night
Tuesday 11/8: No School for Students-Teacher Workday
Explorer Feast November 18th!! Don't Forget to Sign Up! Explorer Project Due!
Reading
We are continuing to practice finding the Main Idea of a passage. We are currently using Nonfiction to practice this standard. This is one of the standards in which the students scored the lowest on the Touchstone end of quarter test. Phrases that signal Main Idea are: What statement best summarizes the passage? What detail from the passage best supports the Main Idea? What is the text mostly about?
When your child brings home main idea practice or brings home graded papers, please take a minute to carefully look at any main idea questions and make sure your child is practicing this skill correctly!
We are also practicing how to Close Read a text. This includes marking up a text, and engaging in it by asking questions. We are also learning how to use text evidence to support our constructed responses when answering questions.
Writing
Now that we have practiced writing strong topic and conclusion sentences, and have worked on writing to one text, we are working on writing to multiple texts. This includes comparing and contrasting!
Math
We are continuing with our multiplication and division unit for this 9 weeks. We will continue to practice area and perimeter, and multiplicative comparisons. We hope that you have been reviewing your child's homework with them so you are familiar with what they will be expected to do on assessments. We have also been working on listing factors and multiples, and recognizing prime and composite numbers, as well as using the distributive property to multiply one digit by multi-digit numbers (up to 1 x 4 digits....ex. 2345 x 6=). We cannot stress enough how important it is that your child is practicing their multiplication facts!! This needs to be a daily practice for these students! First in Math, Moby Max and Multiplication.com are great resources to use. Three Corners flash cards that are available at School Box are also great because they practice multiplication and division fact families at the same time!
Here are some videos to use at home to review these standards!
Social Studies
We will take our Explorer Test on November 17th. Students should use their journals, passages and Jeopardy to help prepare for the test. Don't forget our Explorer Project is due the 18th, the day of our feast!
