Welcome to a "regular" schedule week! We have brainboosters on Tuesday and Wednesday! We also have a Veteran's Day Assembly on Friday!!
IMPORTANT INFORMATION School starts at 8:40 and gets out at 3:20. We will always enter and leave the building at the first grade doors! Bring your planner and folder daily to school! Please contact Ms. Terry if Lexia is still not working for you. We have another option for logging on if the "clever badges" continue to have problems! Thank you to all those who are having their students do lexia at home! NEEDED: Parents, we are out of black skinny expo markers! If any are willing to donate some to our classroom, that would be greatly appreciated! LUNCH CHOICES Monday: Soft Grain Pretzel, Hamburger, or Grill Cheese Sandwich Tuesday: Hawaiian Haystacks, Mini Corn Dogs, or Chef Salad Wednesday: Oven Roasted Chicken Drumstick, Nachos or Wowbutter and Jelly Sandwich Thursday: Spaghetti, Chicken Nuggets, or Taco Salad Friday: Pizza (Cheese, Pepperoni or Hawaiian), Bean and Cheese Burrito, or Turkey Sandwich WHAT WE ARE LEARNING ELA: We are starting a new unit this week! Our story is called “A Big Fish for Max.” The story is an animal fantasy story. Our comprehension skills that we will be working on are recognizing the sequence of the story and predicting and setting a purpose for reading. We will be focusing on thinking about what families do together. Our phonics focus will be the vowel sound in ball: a, al as well as the consonant digraphs sh and th. We will be writing friendly letters and learning more about common nouns. CHINESE: Students are continuing Unit 4 of Mandarin Matrix. Students will read a new story called "Little Firefighters" and "Ant Guard." Students will practice key phrases including "Here", "there", "none", "is there any?", "where is/are?", and "the most." Students will be able to read and write the characters "mountain," "person," "water", and "fire." They will continue to reinforce "不 (no/not), 坐 (sit), 在 (at/in), 里 (inside)," and we will continue to reinforce the characters for numbers 1-10, as well as the characters for big (大), little (小), on top of (上), and underneath (下). MATH: We are finishing unit 3 this week and starting unit 4. Unit 4 is all about subtraction facts up to 20. This unit will reinforce the relationship between addition and subtraction. Some have asked and stated that math is too easy for their child. Please remember that the "skill" of doing the math problems may be easy but they are learning how to talk about each math problem in Chinese. They are talking about the steps they did to solve the problem, the solution and even different ways that some may have gotten the sum or difference. While basic math skills are fundamental, the students are diving in and applying each math skill they know, building upon it as well as increasing their Chinese vocabulary. Please help reinforce the importance of what we are doing each day! One way to help improve the connection to what they are doing at school to home is to continue to practice math fluency at home and ask your child to practice talking to you about math in Chinese! HOMEWORK: We will have English and Chinese reading fluency, math pages from our textbook (they are in English), spelling practice, Chinese character writing practice, and reading for 10 minutes. Please let us know if you have any questions! We are going to send home a survey at the end of the week via email to ask about the slight change in homework. Please remember to adapt the homework if needed. If it needs to be more challenging, use the same procedure and use a more advanced text! 1. Student reads the entire passage to him/herself. 2. Students reads aloud the passage to the adult/parent, who is timing them for exactly ONE minute. During this time, the parent is also keeping track of (counting up) any errors the child makes while reading, BUT does NOT try to correct the child at this time. 3. Adult/Parent counts all the words read in ONE minute, then subtracts the amount student got incorrect and the difference is the words per minute. For example: I read 53 words TOTAL including all the errors I made and I made 6 errors throughout the passage. My “parent” would take 53 words minus 6 which equals 47 words per minute. (53-6=47) Our Winter goal is for oral reading fluency is 24+ words in 1 minute with accuracy of 75%.
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