We had a great week! It was fun to get to do some Halloween activities on Tuesday! Your child was pretty jazzed to go trick-or-treating that night! All the kids were pretty tired the day after, but that’s to be expected. I trust you all had a safe, wonderful Halloween.
*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!
COLD WEATHER: Colder weather is on it’s way! Please write your child’s name inside of their winter coats and instruct them to store their hats and gloves inside their coat pockets for safe-keeping. It is your child’s responsibility to keep track of their coats, boots, hats, and gloves this winter (I will do my very best to help out as well).
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)
Here’s What We’re Learning Next Week
Reading
- Comprehension
- Genre: Fiction, Expository
- Strategy: visualize
- Skill: retell
- High-Frequency Words
- All, put, show, together, under, want
- Oral Vocabulary
- Audience, brilliant, enjoy, entertain, perform
- 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
- Consonant digraphs th, sh,
Writing
- Grammar:
- Days, Months, and Holidays
- 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: fish, shop, ship, with, thin, thank
- Challenge words: want, all, put, together
- Extra Challenge Vocabulary: audience, brilliant, enjoy, entertain, perform
- Math
- Students will review the take-away model for subtraction and the language used for subtraction.
- Students will record take away stories as number sentences using the subtraction symbol.
- Students will learn that most subtraction situations suggest two related number sentences.
- We are beginning our unit on Native Americans. Students will learn about the different regions of the U.S. along with what type of Native Americans live in those regions. We will dig into what food, homes, and customs they had because of the area they lived
- Along with this, we are going to be learning about soils (humus, clay, and sand) and how they tie into the Native American Regions.