We had over half of the parents come to our parent meeting on Wednesday. Thank you for the support. I hope you got some ideas on how to help your child this year. I am sending home the handouts to the parents who were unable to attend. The orange handout with the holes punched out is to help you with reading strategies while you listen to your child read. The homework folder would be a good place to keep it so you can refer back to it as needed. As I corrected the math homework I could see that some parents were teaching their child to add the traditional way. We will learn how to do this but not until April. We are using the 100's chart to figure out the answers. There is a copy laminated on the homework folder and a larger one may be downloaded from my blog under math.
Reading: Our main strategy we worked on this week was figuring out the characters in the stories we read. We talked how characters can be animals that take upon human characteristics. One of the first questions on our weekly comprehension assignment is to name the characters. They get points for using the name of the characters from the book in their assignment.
Math: We used the 100's chart to figure out subtraction problems. We talked about how the numbers need to get smaller (not larger or bigger) in order to figure out if we should move up or down and to the left or right when we subtract. Most of the class is doing find with this concept, but there are still some who are needing extra help.
Spelling: Our spelling test used short a,e,& i sounds and ending chunks. The students were also expected to write the sight words in a sentence. Some of the children did a great job and some need to make sure they practice their sight words too.
Social Studies: We colored the United States of America and answered questions about the land and oceans that surround it.
Science: Our caterpillars have made their chrysalis. We are just watching them to see what will happen next.
We had a fun week with the Read-A-Thon and the Walk-A-Thon.
Shiree Kitchen . Room 116 . skitchen@alpine.k12.ut.us . 801-756-8531 281 N 200 E American Fork, UT 84003
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