Donations- we are out of glue sticks and pencils- thank you for any prior donations. If you are willing to donate either of these items, we would greatly appreciate it. Thank you for your help!
Facts Test- as a reminder, the emphasis on facts tests should be to build fact power (automaticity). The timed test is one tool to practice automaticity and measure progress. It is the goal for kids to automatically recall facts without counting. As long as the kids scopres are improving, the actual number score
Reading Job tickets- to manage guided reading group assignments, I sometimes give the kids a job ticket to remind them of their assignment. You may have seen them in your child's reading bag. The assignment I list on the ticket can be completed during readers workshop- I do give the kids a sufficient amount of time to do so. Please know that the job ticket does not have to be completed for homework.
Reading Bag Books- Most of the books sent home (other than Fridays) are books we are working on guided groups. It is important to our lesson that kids only read the pages/chapters assigned to them. Please encouarge your child to reread a chapter to you- lo
ok for new words to define to help build your child's vocabulary, talk about the plot, have your child share any questions he/she has as a reader, make predictions, retell...
ok for new words to define to help build your child's vocabulary, talk about the plot, have your child share any questions he/she has as a reader, make predictions, retell...Poetry notebooks-Your child will be bringing home a small memo pad to write poetry. Your child may use the notebook to make a list of ideas that might inspire a poem or they could even write poetry in the notebook. This memo pad shoudl be returned to school everyday. Keeping it in the reading bag might be a good idea.
Art For Youth- Beth's mom presented Art for Youth for the month of March. We learned about genre painting- a scene from everyday life. We examined Horace Pippin's The Domino Players (1943) and Paul Cezanne's The Cardplayers (1890-1892). We focused on compistion in both works- how artistis use color, arrange figures and objects to show mood, relationships and a glimpse of everyday life.
Ask Your Child-
What is the difference between area and perimeter?
What is the author's message in Big Al?
How are to, two and too different?
What does it mean to see with a poets eyes?
What does it mean to see with a poets eyes?
What is your class working on in the picture below?
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