Good Evening,
Wow! Thank you so much for sharing your children with me! They are doing such a nice job of transitioning into school routines. They have received many compliments from various staff on how awesome they walk in the hallway! When they receive compliments from staff they earn a cotton ball in the class jar. When the jar is full (we are 3/4 of the way there) they will earn a reward. Academically we jumped into the curriculum this week with two feet! Please read all the way down for important information! Math: We dove straight into multiplication! We began with multiplying by 5s and had a lot of practice counting by 5s! We learned that multiplication can also be repeated addition. Ask your student to show you how that works. We learned how to make an array and create a multiplication equation related to the array. We moved into a brief introduction of division and ended the week today with introducing multiplication and division by 2s. We will have our first quick quiz next week to check on our progress. Literacy: We had our first spelling pre-test on Monday and final test today. Thank you for helping your student study their words all week! In Wonders (our reading curriculum), we read two stories Bruno's New Home and Wolf with the focus being on our strategy and skill. We discussed characters and visualization extensively. We began our reading rotations as well this week, which allows me to meet with all students in small groups every single day. We read the same leveled book Tuesday-Friday and tie in fluency, comprehension, vocabulary, skill, and strategy. Lastly, I began goal setting with students for their iReady testing. We discussed their score from last week and how we together will make growth throughout the year to end May strong! Content Literacy: This week we focused our content literacy on the beginning of opinion writing. Students will be expected to create an opinion writing piece in the next couple of weeks. In order for your students to be successful they need to fully understand the difference between fact and opinion. We practiced each day defining fact and opinion and identifying facts and opinions. Ask them to give you an opinion and fact about pizza! We wrapped up our afternoon today with students sharing their All About Me Bags. They each did a terrific job speaking in front of the class, sharing their prized possessions, and felt pride to share with their classmates and myself. Thank you for supporting them in this project. A couple of reminders:
If you read this far THANK YOU! As always please feel free to reach out if you have questions or concerns. Email works best but if you need to chat by phone or schedule a conference please let me know! Have a safe and enjoyable long weekend!
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