Week 5 Recap
Posted on Sunday, September 23rd, 2018 at 5:46 pmHi Everyone!
Change Project: Our 1st theme is almost at an end- ending on October 5th. At Back to School Night there were large manilla folders given out. If you didn’t attend then your child should have brought it home. In that folder is project outlines for the year. Our first project is on change itself. Please refer to that print out or I have also included it under the Projects tab at the top of our blog. The due date will be October 12th.
Monday September 24th is an Early Release date. Please have your child picked up at 1:00pm.
Past Week:
All students are working on writing convention skills and are being taught to use capital letters at the beginning of their sentences, proper spacing, and the role of what a period does for a sentence. Some writing groups have been working with knowing what a subject vs a predicate is in a sentence. All students have been part of that conversation, but the practice for all students will continue into this coming week. I’ve noticed some students needing some extra attention in writing lowercase letters when they are using uppercase letters and sometimes vice versa. If you see your child not starting their letters at the top or are using capital letters when they should be using lowercase (or vice versa) please bring it to their attention and work on those skills at home too.
Something fun to do to help with your child’s writing and kinds of sentence skills is to hear your child do their 20 minute a day reading and while they are reading aloud have them say *Ping!* when they get to the period that ends their sentence. As we get into question marks and exclamation marks too, I’ll give you some fun onomatopoeia for them too. Doing this will allow those readers who read fast to remember to slow down and take a breath and also allow students to see that the sentence being said is a statement.
In cultural this week: History and Zoology
Level 1s: 1st kinds of calendars
Level 2s: Past, present, future writing and sentences. (They all did awesome at this!)
Level 3s: Precambrian life
Level 1s: Vertebrates and invertebrates
Level 2s: Animal research graphic organizer
Level 3s: Phyla of animals
This coming week I will introduce the mobile cart of laptops for students to work on a reading and math program called Imagine Learning. This year, it is offered to all levels. Students complete about 20 minutes each week (more is allowed and encouraged) and this program can also be used at home! We will have the COW (computers on wheels) every Wednesday afternoons to get the students time in.
Friday we will team up with our Junior High mentor class and learn how to make salsa!
Have a great rest of your weekend and upcoming week!
Ms. Kaley and Ms. Misha