Welcome Back!!
I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas break! I loved hearing how all the children
spent their holidays. I really
missed them and I am very thankful to be back into the swing of things.
Math-
We started Unit 5 in Investigations which deals with landmark and large
numbers. We have been working on
our 1,000 charts while practicing reading and writing numbers to 1,000. We have also been adding and
subtracting multiples of 10 and 100 to locate more numbers on our 1,000 charts
including playing a game called Changing
Places. While we continue to
get back into the swing of things please continue
working with your child on multiplication facts and the need to understand and
know these fluently in order to help them with larger division facts. We are also continuing to work on
Minute Math each morning, which helps the students practice, a variety of math
concepts. We will start, this
week, having our Minute Math quizzes on Thursday.
***If your
child needs more practice with math strategies please go to the link below.
Please watch
the video and then practice with more problems. You may also use the thin
Math Investigations textbook to help your child.
Reading/Language
Arts: We are continuing to read The Tale
of Despereaux. We will
finish this book soon and begin another read aloud. We are on week 7 of our DOL. Please encourage your child to look over their DOL each
night. I have discussed with the
students that we are going to have vocabulary tests each week for the rest of
the year. We will no longer have
just a spelling test. The vocabulary
tests will include a section on the test where they have to spell the word
correctly. It is very important
that students continue to broaden their vocabulary to help with their reading
and writing skills.
Social Studies: Students will be tested on Wednesday on the causes of the American
Revolution. (They have known about this test since last week. They have also
been told to study over their notes each night since January 7, 2013.) We will
be moving into chapter 12 called “the Revolutionary War”. The students did a wonderful job with
our mini reenactment. They were
great while they were being “taxed” and they even wrote a declaration of
independence to Mr. Lawry regarding all the harsh laws he had put into
place. We had wonderful
discussions making the connections of how they felt with how the colonists must
have felt. Please make sure to ask
them all about our study.
Reminders:
*January 21, 2013 school is closed in observation of Martin
Luther King Jr. Birthday.
*Book orders are due next Thursday, January 24. These were sent home last week and on the front you will find our classroom code to order online. Ordering online is very easy and fast. Please let me know if you need the code again.
Please email me
if you have any questions.
Your children
are such a joy! Thank you for sharing them with me!
Mrs. Wilkes
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