Greetings Room 13 Families!
Hopefully you all enjoyed the long weekend. Again, many thank yous for all of your generous donations to our class!!!
Please check in with your students nightly about their homework; it should be recorded daily on their log. This seems to be a problem for many students, as I am getting blank logs or no longs at all on Fridays. Vocab/Spelling work will always be described on the back of the log (please help make sure your child is reading the directions). Vocab/Spelling work is always due on Friday with the log. There will almost always be nightly math homework (this should be kept in student's math folders. There are also assignment logs for math that should be getting filled in during class time. If your child is able to finish their math homework in class, math facts in a flash or other fact practice should be done (multiplication and division).
We began talking about the National Park Assignment today in class. Your child has been assigned their National Park. There are some great links on my blog (National Geographic's site is especially picturesque). This assignment will be due on Sept. 17th. We will be getting research started at school and your child will bring home the detailed project description with grading rubric on Thursday.
A quick run down of some areas of study in the first month of school:
Math: factor trees, prime factorization, exponents, equivalent fractions (coming soon)
Language Arts/Science: Our First theme for Language Arts is "Natures Fury" in which we will be reading realistic fiction and non-fiction text, we will also be exploring figurative language and connecting this to our study of weather in science.
Social Studies: Native Americans and geography skills. Around the world (artistic expressions of famous places around the world).
:) Ms. Sara
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