Library
Thurs Sept. 22nd STEM Lab Time
As you can see, the apple witches are starting to dehydrate and they’re starting to take on their own personalities:
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Homework:
Quest homework policy is 10 minutes of homework is allowed times the grade your child is in school, plus 20 minutes of reading time. With this in mind, your child should only be spending 30 minutes on math, and spelling, and then the 20 minutes of reading. If it is taking your child longer than this to complete their homework, have them stop when their 30 minutes if over.
Reading
20 minutes 5 nights a week. I can’t even start to tell you how important this 20 minutes is. If things are hectic, please don’t skip this one! Some suggestions that may help are have an older child read to a younger sibling. Read a book as a family, giving everyone a chance to read out loud, but only takes 20 minutes and everyone is done.
Math: Prodigy Game 3 times a week for at least 15 minutes each night.
Spelling:
Spelling this year has changed. We are using direct instruction to teach spelling and all the students in our class will have the same spelling pattern, with differentiation happening in our individual seat work time. We will focus on the spelling patterns introduced and a set of sight words. Eventually, the students will be required to type their spelling words in each week, but that won’t come for another week. For this week, please have your child write their sort. The directions for typing their sorts will be forthcoming (We’re just waiting for the program we will use to be ready to go)
We have learned how to do a “Regular Sort” and a “Speed Sort” The students know how to do each of these.
This week we will be learning a No Peeky Sort and a Sentence Sort.
Here is the sort for this week:
ack, alk, ard, art
Have a great week!