It was really nice to get to talk with all of you last week for conferences. It’s nice to get a pulse of how your child’s feeling about school at home. Knowing your child is happy and excited about school lets me know I’m doing my job. So, thank you for your kind words, honesty, and feedback.
We had a fantastic week! We’ve done a ton of fun Halloween activities and crafts!
*REMINDERS*
RED FOLDER: RED Folders are due tomorrow. The folder should only take about 20-30 minutes a night. Students should be doing about 5-10 minutes of Math practice, 10 minutes of word practice (they can choose from the nonsense words, poem worksheet, spelling words, sight words, or sight word sentences) and 10-15 minutes of reading with you or another person. Log books and sight word practice in their reading logs. Kids who read every week with their families get a pizza coupon at the end of the month!
MOBY MAX: If you’re looking for a great online resource to help your child with any sort of subject area, Moby Max is a resource our school pays for, for your child. They can do virtually any subject area, and the modules talk and work them through things. If you’re looking to give your child a bit of a challenge, feel free to have your child utilize this great tool any time! Go to: https://www.mobymax.com/signin, type in Tavelli for school, and your child’s login is the same as their login at school. We use this website in March for the Moby Max Math challenge! It’s a great tool!
Important Dates:
Nov. 16th is the last day of our First Trimester
Nov. 17th is NO SCHOOL for Students
Nov. 21st Report Cards will go home with students
November 22, 23, 24 is NO SCHOOL for students (Thanksgiving Break)
HALLOWEEN: Our school policy is we do not wear Halloween costumes to school. We have planned fun activities to do with your kid next Tuesday, but please don’t send them to school in costumes. There will also be a fall festival at our school tomorrow Friday October 27 from 6-8 PM where your child can wear their Halloween costume. We will be handing out treats, dancing to some great tunes, face painting, and hosting the caramel apple walk. We do need candy donations; if you are able to donate it is greatly appreciated.
Here’s What We’re Learning Next Week
Reading
- Comprehension
- Genre: Fiction, Expository
- Strategy: visualize
- Skill: plot
- High-Frequency Words
- Again, could, make, one, then, three
- Oral Vocabulary
- Collapse, company, construct, entire, material
- Fluency
- Expression
- Phonemic Awareness
- Phoneme blending (putting sounds in words together), phoneme isolation (what’s the middle sound in cat?), Phoneme segmentation (breaking sounds apart)
- Phonics
- Short u (run, fun, nut…)
Writing
- Grammar:
- Proper nouns
- Capitalize proper nouns.
- Expository- We are working on writing 5 sentences paragraphs that start with introducing a topic, writing 3 facts about our topic and closing it out with an opinion about our topic. Students are learning to use webs to plan out their ideas.
- Spelling words:
- Phonics words: run, fun, nut, cut, bug, rug
- Challenge words: Again, could, one, then
- Extra Challenge Vocabulary: Collapse, company, construct, entire, material
Math
- Students will use uniform non-standard units to measure length by clearly communicating and justifying lengths of objects they found, and use connecting cubes to measure each other’s cubits.
- Students will record take-away stories as equations using the subtraction symbol by decontextualizing subtraction scenarios, constructing viable arguments and critiquing the reasoning of others, and using select tools to assist them in solving subtraction problems.
Science:
- We’re starting a new unit all about soils.