Hope you had a wonderful weekend! I am writing this from MINECON, a Minecraft Convention all about Minecraft. I am sure the kiddos would appreciate my current view...
Please continue to checkout your kiddo's math assessment scores through their Pearson account. Within those scores are some MP's which, for us, are counted as participation grades. This means that the grade you are seeing will be divided up into standards, graded individually, and not as one whole grade. If you would like your child to get extra practice on concepts not yet mastered, feel free to have them complete the assignments that will automatically be pushed to them for an extension on the lesson. They can do these assignments at home as a homework extension and are specific to your kiddo. To find these lessons: click under classes, not started tab, look for additional practice for online topic assessment (or additional practice for ______ whatever the assignment was), and then you should see multiple visual learning assignments, reteaching assignments and worksheets for your child to complete at your discretion. I am going to start letting students reassess in October on any Topic Test they feel they would like to improve on. To do this, they need to 1.) Complete the assignments that were assigned to them for that topic as additional practice, 2.) Turn in completed work with the topic labeled. As soon as they do those two things they can reassess.
Just a reminder, we will be going on a field trip on October 28th to the Escondido Animal Park (Safari Zoo). We are encouraging parents to drive because we will only be taking one bus. We are also encouraging everyone to donate to Dollar-a-Day as this helps provide for our field trip expenses.
Our focus this week will be:
- Continue reading Treasure in the Trees and begin reading About Earth. We will focus on how different authors use facts and details to support main ideas. We will also look at a text to see how illustrations and text features convey main idea, details and theme.
- Spelling: ou, ow, oi, and oy
- Conventions: subject-verb agreement (past, present and future tense) and adjectives
- Writing: informative/explanatory
Math
- Review distributive, associative and commutative property
- Review 3, 4, 6, 7, and 8 as a factor
- We also continue our Fact Master multiplication tests.
LEADER OF THE WEEK; Matthew Richards
Due every day: -Reading 15 minutes (put on reading log and sign)
-Daily Fact Practice paper
Due on Friday: -Spelling word work
-Writing prompt on Moby Max
IMPORTANT: Please watch short wordless video of the life cycle of a tree on YOU TUBE and write at least one paragraph about the life cycle of the tree. Remember to use temporal words, topic and conclusion. Try to steer them away from the typical, "I am going to tell you.." topic sentences, Think of questions or statements that will catch the readers attention when starting their introductory sentence.
Spelling Words: 16-20 are challenge words
- proud
- shower
- hour
- amount
- voyage
- choice
- avoid
- thousand
- prowl
- employ
- bounce
- poison
- annoy
- appoint
- broil
- however
- mountain
- coward
- turmoil
- chowder
Have a fantastic week!
Lovingly,
Mrs. Urban
