Thursday, October 9, 2014

Update from Ms. Luria

Dear Families,

On Monday homework should be turned in and new homework will go out. 

If you would like an easy volunteer thing to do from home, please read some writing from our students and write comments on their writing. The comments are moderated by me, so they will not show up immediately.  Kids like to know that adults are reading what they publish on the blog. Over time, every child will get a piece published on the blog! 

Weekly Volunteer times still available

  • Tuesday between 10:45 - 11 to do writing conferences with students (I'll show you how to do that). 
  • Tuesdays between 1:45 and 3 to do science experiments with students - help set up the experiment, help clean up and general help with the experiments
  • Wednesday between 10 - 11 to either help with a reading group or do writing/reading conferences with students
  • Fridays between 10 - 11 to either help with a reading group or do writing/reading conferences with students

This week's focus:

Reading-
*We are reading our first Oregon Battle of the Book selection. Ask your child about the story? Who is telling the story? How do they think JJ is going to escape?  
*We read non-fiction pieces about school uniforms and practiced asking questions as we read text.
*We also did our first Spanish reading selection to practice our close reading skills and to learn more about English grammar. 

Writing-
*Many students published their first three paragraph science essay. Everyone finished and edited at least a one paragraph essay. You will see copies of the essays next week with the take home folder. Some of them have been posted on the blog. 
    

Math-
*Students did individualized lessons depending on their own personal skill level - this ranged from learning to add lists to using the commutative property of multiplication. 
*We learned to count by 4's. 
*If you child cannot do 100 subtraction facts in 5 minutes, please make sure they are practicing every night on a worksheet or online at runmoby.com. The online site is better because it targets math facts your child has yet to memorize. 

Social Studies and Science-
*We did two difference science experiments this week - one about cleaning pennies and the second one about gravity and friction. We also learned about succession planting in the garden. 
*Students planted lettuce and observed the germinating radishes. 

Important note: Please wear gym clothes on Fridays.

Have a wonderful weekend!

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