Wow! Where did January go?? I wish things would slow down a little. The thought of losing your precious children hurts my heart. I don't want my Baylee to go to Waller yet either. I love her being down the hall from me! Here is the agenda for this week!
Reading: We will finish our tall tales unit. We will also take an SRI test to determine our current lexiles (reading levels).
Math: We will tie up long division this week. We will also continue to review everyday, previous skills learned.
Science: Space! Look for an upcoming exciting homework project. Parent participation encouraged!
Social Studies: SE state capital test - Tuesday
English: Friendly letters, possessives, and contractions
Spelling: Plurals
leaf and leaves
wolf and wolves
potato and potatoes
roof and roofs
family and families
library and libraries
journey and journeys
hero and heroes
ditch and ditches
special words - ornate and exaggerate
The children that participated in the spelling and geography bees did super! They did not go on farther than our school, but I am very proud of them and their hard work!!
Enrichment: If your child qualified for enrichment from 3rd grade test scores and you signed a paper at the beginning of the school year for your child to do enrichment, I wanted to let you know how I have been doing enrichment. Both math and reading enrichment is met first of all through our computer program, Success Maker. This program levels kids and gives them work on that level. This is a great way for your child to see things he/she may not see in 4th grade or see things ahead before we even get to the concept! Another way I enrich reading is to do leveled groups and reading activities throughout the year, such as literature circles. This is a way that I can meet all the levels of readers in my room, instead of having them all in the same leveled text book the whole time. Math is harder to enrich, simply because I have so many children and quite a few that struggle. If your child is an enriched math student, and they understand the math that we are doing in class and get done early, I try to give them a fun challenging math page or problem to work on in a small group. I stamp these pages with a brown bear stamp. Some days these high math students get done early, and they have time to do an enrichment page, but many times they don't. If you would like homework for your enriched child, let me know, otherwise, we will fit it in every opportunity we can.
Mail: We pass out papers almost daily, but some children let their mailbox get to overflow before taking it home! Just wanted to let you know that! This is why sometimes you may not see any papers for 2 weeks! Ha! With 27 kiddos, I need them to be responsible for some things, and check their mailbox daily!
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