Week in Review August 27, 2015

Fall MAP Testing Dates

Reading- Friday, 8/28 @ 8:05

Math- Wednesday, 9/2 @ 12:35

Math Updates

This week in math we have learning concepts related to place value. Using the class pretest data, I was able to quickly see that we needed to focus on digits, value, and writing numbers in different formats (standard, expanded and word). We spent most of our math time this week working on rounding. Students are expected to be able to round numbers to the nearest 10 and 100.

*Please have your child bring in an old sock to keep as a slate eraser.

ELA Updates

This week during our reading time our whole group lessons focused on the things that good readers should be thinking about while reading and building stamina for reading independently. Initially, we covered the basic ideas of:

1.) What is this story/text really about?

2.) Who? What? When? Where? Why?

3.) How is this story put together? (Plot)

4.) What questions do I have while reading?

5.) What new words have I encountered while reading?

Writing

During our writing time we have been working on generating ideas for a personal narrative piece. We are doing this by filling our writer’s notebooks with ideas from our lives. We have been reading Ralph Fletcher’s Writing Notebook and modeling our notebooks after ideas we read about.

A writer’s notebook is a place to notice and catch all of our…

·         Unforgettable stories.

·         Fierce Wonderings.

·         Small moments.

Science Process Skills

We have been learning about the different ways that scientists must think and act in order to learn new things. To help us remember the different process skills we will use the acronym, COMIC-E (Classify, Observe, Measure, Infer, Communicate and Experiment).

SC History

During our SS time together, we talked about the different ways that history is discovered over time and map and globe skills. We have also begun our notebooks.

Don’t forget to send in pictures to decorate your notebooks if you choose.

School News

Dutch Fork High School Football “Elementary Night” will be this Friday, August 28. Kick off is 7:00 pm. Bring the little yellow ticket that came home in your child’s blue Thursday folder today.

Also in the Thursday folder is important information about grandparents day and the Active Gamecock activity log.