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Home Literacy Math
May 5th, 2008
This week we will be learning about -qu words for level 3 and -tion, -ture, -ure words for level 4 in spelling this week. In Writer's Workshop we will be learning about Cinquains and Diamonte poems. Last week we learned about Acrostic poetry. Many children are doing really well in getting their independent reading projects finalized in class. All groups in Reading Groups are finishing up Frog Princess and are ready to do their summative project. They will be picking their favorite part in the book and making a diorama about it with shoe boxes. Students need to bring in their own shoe box into class this week to work on this in class. These are due no later than Friday, but they can be brought in any time before that. Homework this week is: spelling homework, reading logs, book bag activity and a shoe box for our Frog Princess project.
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May 5th, 2008
Last week we finished Unit 2 with time to spare : ). This week we will be covering Unit 3: place value to the thousands, money into dollars and time to the minute. We will be covering lessons 3.1-3.8 this week with our Unit 3 test on Friday (short unit : ). I will post the review sheet on my home page today for the test on Friday. I have given all the homelinks for this unit, this week. There are many pages, but there is very little on each page except for a couple home links. Oh, great news! The whole class is doing awesome with their addition facts that I am bumping them up to 50 problems instead of 30 in 5 minutes. Subtraction is doing quite well too, but I am keeping that at 30 problems for now! Look in next weeks Weekly Folder on how they have been doing in their unit tests for Grade 2 thus far. Homework for this week is homelinks for lessons 3.1-3.8 due on Friday!!!!
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Home Literacy Math
For week of 5/12/08:
Last week we started our Poetry Unit we completed amazing acrostic and couplet poems! This week we will learn about Haiku, Cinquain, and Diamonte poems. In grammar, we will learn how to use commas in a series and in conversational writing. During writing we have time to work on our own stories and poems. Homework is to read at least 15 minutes per night or a total of at least 45 minutes during the week and record in your log. Spelling packets are due on Friday, too. Please do 20 points on your spelling activity sheet. Please look for examples of the poetry we are reading and bring examples in to share with the class!
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Math: For week of 5/12/08:
On Friday we began Unit 11: Probability and End of Year Review. This will be our last unit for the year! This unit will learn the language of chance events. We will discuss degrees of uncertainty, probability, chance, the likelihood of an event to happen, and outcomes. This week’s lessons will be a series of hands on experiments in which we will collect, tabulate, and interpret experimental data. This week’s activities will include: A Pattern-Block Toss Experiment, A Coin-Toss Experiment, Spinner Experiments, and Blocks in a Bag. If parents are available any day this week between 10:20 and 11:20 I would welcome an extra hand or two in the classroom! Homework will be Homelinks 11.1-11.4.
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Home Literacy Math
Literacy
We have wrapped up our Poetry Unit! I will be sending home a list of poems that your child needs to complete for their poetry book. We will start working on our Fairy Tails trial this week. We will talk about the process and hopefully towards the end of the week I will be able to assign parts. I will also begin their DRA assessements for the end of the year. We will be adding one more assessment called DIBELS. I will send home the results towards the end of May. We will continue the review of word families and sight words this week to help strengthen their reading skills. We will also start back with reading groups on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s. Homework: Spelling Packet/15 point activities and Reading Logs due Friday!
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Math:
We will finish up Unit 5 this week. We will discuss the thousandths place measuring rainfall and wrap it up with more place value in decimals to the thousandths place. We will also analyze data from the sunrise-sunset routine and use this information to make a line graph. We will take our Unit 5 test on Thursday and start Unit 6 on Friday. Unit 6 will focus on line segments, rays and lines. We will also start looking at angles. We will continue with our Speedy Multi Math on Wednesday’s. This is an awesome program for the students to help with rote memorization of multiplication facts. Homework: Home Links 5.10-6.1 due Friday!
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Home Literacy Math
This week we will begin our Poetry Unit. Each day this week we will be looking at different types of poem, by looking at example, and writing class poems. The students will then have to write their own poem. At the end of their Poetry Unit the students will produce a Poetry Book. We will put these together in class. This week we will finish up talking about prefixes and suffixes. The students will also receive new reading books, and we will finish up talking about ways to remember important details about the book to fully give a summary of what they read.
Homework: Spelling Packet-20 points, Reading Log=Due Friday
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This week we will be taking the Chapter 5 test. Study guides went home last week. I have also posted it on my web page. I have scheduled the test for Tuesday May 6th. On Wednesday we will begin Chapter 6. For this unit I am going to skip some stuff, but if there is time I will come back and touch upon those lessons. Our focus for this Chapter 6 is reviewing whole-number operations and Number Stories. Wednesday we will determine how to solve comparison number stories by using comparison diagrams. Thursday we will select and complete an appropriate diagram to help solve an addition or subtraction problems. On Friday we will be using base-10 blocks to model subtraction of 2-digit numbers.
Homework: Homelink 6.2,6.4, 6.5
It was great seeing all of you last week at conferences. This week we will finish up on Chapter 9. We will be discussing fractional parts of a whole; as well as comparing fractions. Friday of this week we will be reviewing for their chapter 9 test. Look for their math review sheet to come home on Friday. Their chapter 9 test will be on MONDAY, JANUARY 28th. Homework for this week is Homelinks 9.6-9.8 are due on FRIDAY, January 25th.
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Home Literacy Math
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Literacy This Week:
We only have three more weeks of literacy, and I can’t believe how quickly this year has gone by! This week we will begin class with an editing paragraph each day. In grammar the students will learn about using commas to separate words in a series, to separate two adjectives that equally modify the same noun, to set off the name of a person being spoken to, and after introductory words. We will be wrapping up our poetry unit this week, and the students will have time to work on any poems they were unable to finish. The students will also finish up their Shelter Dogs newspaper articles. They did a great job on these, so please look for them next Monday in the Weekly Folders!
Homework: Reading Log 40 min., Spelling Packet - Proofreading and 20pts. Choice Activities
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Math This Week:
There are only three weeks left of math, and boy does time fly! This week the kids will be experimenting with volume. They will also be exploring the concept of capacity. In lesson 10.6 we will review the median of a set of data, and the mean will be introduced. Finally the students will have practice calculating the mean of a set of data. On Wednesday, Ms. Bowlen will be here to continue working on multiplication facts with the kids. Please look for a copy of the Unit 9 Progress Check in your child’s Weekly Folder.
Homework: Home Links 10.4-10.7
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