Library Reading Challenge

unknown“WHERE IN THE WORLD WILL READING TAKE YOU?”

This year for the library’s reading challenge, we will submit reading minutes to travel across the continents. At the end of the year one class per grade will win the fabulous prize for the most reading minutes. In addition, the student(s) with the most reading minutes will qualify for a prize.

What is your role in this reading challenge?  Simply click on the “Library Reading Challenge” tab on our class blog and complete the online form each week.  Because these reading minutes will only be available to the librarian,  you will still need to complete our regular reading log to receive homework credit for reading.

Family Fun Themed Raffle Basket

Our class will be putting together a “Family Fun” themed basket to auction/raffle for the fundraiserbasket-auction-clipart-p6uhx8-clipart in December. We are asking students and families to donate items for the basket that are centered around the theme “Family Fun.” Donated items may be new or gently used, but should be items that you would want to win (not junk or cast-offs). Donations for the basket will need to be submitted directly to our classroom any time before November 29th. 
THANK YOU!


Homework 11/7-11/11

Homework this week is due on Friday, November 11:
**A disguise your turkey homework page was sent home with your child and is due this Friday, November 11th with the weekly homework, we will be working on a writing assignment using this project next week**

1- Math Homework:  
  • Worksheets: Please complete every other problem (alternate between evens and odds so your child gets practice doing story problems AND “Vocabulary Check”/ “Test Practice” problems each week).  If your child wants to do every problem they are certainly free to do so! 🙂 Please check your child’s answers for accuracy!

  • Practice your fluency timing repeatedly: “Subtracting from 0,1,2,3, and 4”.  Record your best time and score each day. [By the end of first grade, the target goal is to finish all 25 problems in 1 minute and 15 seconds, with 90% accuracy (23 out of 25 problems correct).]  Click here for extra timings: Fluency Timings

  • For extra practice, utilize any of these math-fact-activities. There is also a copy provided in your blue folder.

Helpful Hint:  Use counters (pennies, buttons, macaroni, etc.) if needed to model subtraction. Count backwards when subtracting 1, 2, or 3: Start with the bigger number and count backwards (Example: 3 – 2.  Snap your finger and say “3″ and count backwards 2 times: say 3 (snap)…2…1).

 PRINT THIS HOMEWORK FORM to complete the following tasks: 
1- weekly-homework-form

TO RECEIVE CREDIT PLEASE WRITE STUDENT’S NAME ON HOMEWORK AND STAPLE THE SORT WORK SEPARATELY FROM THE MATH HOMEWORK.  

2- Reading 20 minutes per day.

3- One Minute Reading Fluency. After reading with our students I have moved them up in the fluency stories according to their ability.  Most of our students did well working on this story today with their reading buddies in 4th grade.  So, please print Lesson #18 for this week.  Click on the Phonics Fluency Stories  to print Lesson #18 from this link: Phonics Fluency Stories

4- Weekly Sort: 1-18-sheet1 (Please PRINT this assigned sort.)  

5- Phonics and High Frequency Words Homework. Practice using any method of your choice to prepare for the weekly Friday spelling test. Click here for some practice ideas: Spelling Study Activities

Phonics Words:

us
run
fan
pin
muffin

High Frequency Words:

they
very
from
water
and

Sentence:
The sun is up.

Yes we “CAN”!

canWow!  Thank you so much for the amazing canned food donations!  Although our grade did not win the free dress-down day, our class brought in 60 cans of food for local food banks!  If every student brought in 6 cans of canned food we could win!  Thank you so much for your generous donations!  If you were unable to donate this time and would still like a chance, we will still be collecting canned food donations through November 7thand these donations will also count toward another possible dress-down day!