Monday, January 23, 2017

Weekly News January 23-27, 2017

Homework: The writing homework is due this Friday. The math packet and reading log are due on Friday. Please return it in your Yellow Reading Log/Math Homework Folder. Please make sure you sign your child’s reading log.
Language Arts/Social Studies: This week we will learn about Jacques Cousteau. We will work on identifying a leadership trait to describe Cousteau then we will find evidence from the text to support that trait. In our reading groups we will be reading about leaders. We will read about the Chinese New Year in our Scholastic News. We will continue to review magic e words. We will continue to work on opinion writing. Later in the week we will learn about Haiku poems and try writing our own.
Mathematics: This week we will be solving real-world problems using metric length. We will practice the problem-solving strategies of making sure we understand, then represent, solve, look back and clearly show the answer. We will be solving one-step and two-step problems. Most likely the chapter 7 test will be this Wednesday. We will begin chapter 10 on mental math.
Ways you can help at home: Read with your child and discus the character traits. Read a biography together. Look for magic e words as you read. Practice spelling sight words that you see your child missing in his or her writing journal. Help your child take time to edit for capitals and end marks in their writing in their homework. Practice measuring objects in centimeters. Talk about what is longer shorter, taller and by how much. Work on solving addition and subtraction word problems. The students need to understand what operation is needed. Drawing bar models helps students represent the problem. We talk about the parts we know. For example if we know the whole and a part we know that subtraction is needed to find the other part. If we know the parts we need to add to find the whole.
Cursive: We will continue to practice the cursive a.