Hello Everyone – I am not sure how I feel about the end of the year yet. I always look forward to fresh starts and a NEW YEAR! This year is especially unique because of the trials and new frontier we faced at the end of our LAST school year and the beginning of THIS school year. Change is always hard, but when you have to do it constantly, it can get very wearisome and cause a lot of anxiety and fear. Hopefully, our next year, will give us some peace and consistency.
What we will be learning for December in reading and math!?!
*We are (about) half way through the school year, my team and I choose to do a little review of hard standards, while introducing lighter or (more fun) standards. We also incorporate some fun material, to hopefully, encourage our students to “Want” to come to school during these festive times. LOL
Math: ALL NBT Standards “Mastered”:
All these have been taught and tested:
- Lesson 4 / NBT.5 – multi digit multiplication
- Lesson 5 / NBT. 6 – double digit divisor division
- Lesson 8/ NBT. 3a – read and write decimals in different forms
- Lesson 6/ NBT.1 – Understand Place Value
- Lesson 7/ NBT.2 – Understand powers of 10
- Lesson 9/ NBT.3b/4 – Compare and Round Decimals
- Lesson 10-11, 15-16, 17/ NBT.7 – Add/Sub. , Multiply, and Divide Decimals
Students will be retesting, and working on “Mastery level 4” for all these standards. The Power Standards (REALLY IMPORTANT STANDARDS -before they get to 6th grade) are NBT.5, NBT.6 and all of NBT.7
I will focus the MOST on after school tutoring, in class small group, and in class tutoring on these standards.
- Reminder: a 4 in math is ONLY achieved if your child takes the final iReady TEST. This is a choice this year. I will test everyone on Paper tests, Comprehension checks, and individualized observations, BUT to get a 4 = MASTERY the administration wanted to up the bar and make it a CHOICE. Hopefully encouraging our students to take more ACTION in their OWN learning.
The NEW standards we will introduce will be :
- Lesson 31-32 / G.1 and 2 = Understand and solve problems using a coordinate plane.
- Lesson 33/ OA.3 – Understand patterns and order of operations
- Start introducing our next “power standards” NF.3 – understand FRACTIONS as a division problem.
READING (aka ELA)-
Skills: (Reading Literature)
- Main Idea
- Characters, Plot, Setting – Literature Components
- Compare/Contrast Literature Components
- Theme
Strategies:
- Evidence from the text
- Predictions/Inferring
- Character Characteristics to determine Main Idea or Theme
- Author’s Point of view to determine Main Idea or Theme
Books we are reading: “Best Christmas Pageant Ever”, “House without a Christmas Tree”, Sections of “Christmas Carol”, “Little House in Big Woods” Christmas Edition, “Indian in the Cupboard”, and many short informational and literature texts to help us to broaden our background in cultural Holidays past and present.
Happy Holidays & A Great NEW YEAR! 2021 here we come…
