This week we will be focusing on the Grinch and how his heart grew three times larger on Christmas. Each student will have the opportunity to earn 3 hearts by being king, responsible, and respectful. These hearts are taped onto the Grinch posters that displayed outside our door. On Friday we will have a Grinch day where the students may dress up as a Who or something Grinchy for their $1.00 Dress Down Day (This is an optional activity and $1.00 dress down day is ALWAYS optional),
Over the break, there is no assigned homework, but I am encouraging multiplication practice of the 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 10’s multiplication tables. We will be focusing on the 6, 7, and 8’s times tables after the break. Multiplication facts are so important and Mr. Hadley has visited our class and told us how important it is that they learn them, memorize them and then continue to practice them until they are in 4th grade.
As the student’s SAGE test results come back, I would love to share them with you. I will have appointments open on Thursday from 3:30 to 4:30. If you would like to see your student’s results, please e-mail me and I will set up an appointment time with you. I realize this is not a lot of time to have a large number of people come in, but, if there’s enough interest, I am willing to stay after in January a few nights and have more of you come in.
Homework:
Math: We have started Multiplication! This week we will be working on 3′s, and 4′s. Math homework should happen 3 nights a week and may be done on the weekend. Current options for math homework are any of the following:
Prodigy
Salute
PIG
Chutes and Ladders (Game board was sent home 3 weeks ago)
Cross Out (Game board will be sent home today)
We will be adding more multiplication games as we learn more of the facts. Each night of homework is worth 10 points.
Reading: 20 minutes at least 5 times a week. It is imperative that your child is participating in reading practice at home. Studies have shown that the more words a child read, the better their achievement is in all other areas. Not only are they given homework points for reading, but they are also given presentation points for being able to stand up and talk about what they read the night before. Reading is worth 100 points each week. I will be choosing our book talks from the Padlet Entries here, please have your child comment when they are ready to share the next day. They only need to do a book talk once a month, but many of them like to do more:
Book Check In
Math: We have started Multiplication! This week we will be working on 3′s, and 4′s. Math homework should happen 3 nights a week and may be done on the weekend. Current options for math homework are any of the following:
Prodigy
Salute
PIG
Chutes and Ladders (Game board was sent home 3 weeks ago)
Cross Out (Game board will be sent home today)
We will be adding more multiplication games as we learn more of the facts. Each night of homework is worth 10 points.
Reading: 20 minutes at least 5 times a week. It is imperative that your child is participating in reading practice at home. Studies have shown that the more words a child read, the better their achievement is in all other areas. Not only are they given homework points for reading, but they are also given presentation points for being able to stand up and talk about what they read the night before. Reading is worth 100 points each week. I will be choosing our book talks from the Padlet Entries here, please have your child comment when they are ready to share the next day. They only need to do a book talk once a month, but many of them like to do more:
Book Check In
December Arrives This Week!
I hope everyone had a wonderful and safe Thanksgiving!
We have three weeks to accomplish our December Goals and it’s going to fly by.
In the next three weeks we will be working on Parent Gifts (Remember to bring in those Cool Whip Lids), memorizing multiplication facts, learning the rest of the lower case cursive letters and working on a fun Grinch project.
We will be starting to pass of our multiplication facts for the first time (we pass them off a variety of ways, numbers times) this week. As we pass them off the first time, we will also be filling out a glyph (picture) that we will use to graph and take data from. In the end we will have a Sundae Party (February 14th) where we will build a sundae to celebrate knowing our multiplication facts. The students will have 1 minute to pass off the facts for each number group (Example: We will start with 2′s, then do 5′s etc).
Homework:
Math: We have started Multiplication! This week we will be working on 3′s, and 4′s. Math homework should happen 3 nights a week and may be done on the weekend. Current options for math homework are any of the following:
Prodigy
Salute
PIG
Chutes and Ladders (Game board was sent home 3 weeks ago)
We will be adding more multiplication games as we learn more of the facts. Each night of homework is worth 10 points.
Reading: 20 minutes at least 5 times a week. It is imperative that your child is participating in reading practice at home. Studies have shown that the more words a child read, the better their achievement is in all other areas. Not only are they given homework points for reading, but they are also given presentation points for being able to stand up and talk about what they read the night before. Reading is worth 100 points each week. I will be choosing our book talks from the Padlet Entries here, please have your child comment when they are ready to share the next day. They only need to do a book talk once a month, but many of them like to do more:
Book Check In
Spelling Sorts: With all of the activities we have this week, there will be no sorts this week. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!
We have three weeks to accomplish our December Goals and it’s going to fly by.
In the next three weeks we will be working on Parent Gifts (Remember to bring in those Cool Whip Lids), memorizing multiplication facts, learning the rest of the lower case cursive letters and working on a fun Grinch project.
We will be starting to pass of our multiplication facts for the first time (we pass them off a variety of ways, numbers times) this week. As we pass them off the first time, we will also be filling out a glyph (picture) that we will use to graph and take data from. In the end we will have a Sundae Party (February 14th) where we will build a sundae to celebrate knowing our multiplication facts. The students will have 1 minute to pass off the facts for each number group (Example: We will start with 2′s, then do 5′s etc).
Homework:
Math: We have started Multiplication! This week we will be working on 3′s, and 4′s. Math homework should happen 3 nights a week and may be done on the weekend. Current options for math homework are any of the following:
Prodigy
Salute
PIG
Chutes and Ladders (Game board was sent home 3 weeks ago)
We will be adding more multiplication games as we learn more of the facts. Each night of homework is worth 10 points.
Reading: 20 minutes at least 5 times a week. It is imperative that your child is participating in reading practice at home. Studies have shown that the more words a child read, the better their achievement is in all other areas. Not only are they given homework points for reading, but they are also given presentation points for being able to stand up and talk about what they read the night before. Reading is worth 100 points each week. I will be choosing our book talks from the Padlet Entries here, please have your child comment when they are ready to share the next day. They only need to do a book talk once a month, but many of them like to do more:
Book Check In
Spelling Sorts: With all of the activities we have this week, there will be no sorts this week. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!