October 23 - 27, 2017
I hope you all have a great weekend!
***If your child hasn't created his/her read-a-thon account, please do so! This is very important for our school. It's easy to do - create the account and then share information with family and friends. Family and friends can sponsor your child for any amount of money - even $5.00. Every single dollar helps. Our booster club is working very hard to support our school by providing much needed resources - extra library money, paying for computer programs, providing the children with nice playground equipment, etc. Please support the booster club, so they can continue to do all that they do for the children of HCC.
This site will be updated weekly. You can also join Remind 101. The Remind 101 will be texted out when there is achange of schedule or an important event coming up. I will not send out daily homework reminders. Homework for each class will be written on the board. All students need to write this down each day.
Reading - This week, we will be in our reading books. We will read the story, "Old Yellar". Our focus skill will be character traits. We will have a G2 test on character traits on Friday, October 27th. We will also have a G2 test on this story. Reading books may be used for this test.
We have voted for literature circle books. Please look in your child's folder Tuesday. I will include a lot of information about lit. circles as well as information on the G2 project that will be due in December from their literature circle book. Remember - this book is NOT something we're reading together in class. This is for independent reading. Your child MAY read this during our daily AR time and can also take it home to read at night and on the weekends. He/she will know how much reading is needed for each week. He/she will also need to complete a role sheet and be prepared to share during weekly litereature circle meetings.
Your child wasgivena new vocabulary workshop story with definitions, synonyms and antonyms on Wednesday, October 18th. We will review the vocabulary including definitions, synonyms and antonyms every day. This week, we will have complete the sentence activity on Tuesday, October 24thfor a g1 grade and on Friday, October 27th, we will have a G2 test on these words.
We will be using Moby Max again this year. We will work on all three reading areas - reading informational, reading stories, and reading skills. We will also work on the languageportion of Moby Max. Your child can practice all skills at home on this site.
We have finished STAR testing. Information about your child's STAR test and his/her goal for next nine weeks will be sent home Tuesday with graded papers.
STAR test/AR - Information on where your child is in regards to AR tests went home with progress reports. Your child should be at LEAST at 50% in regards to his/her goal and should always be at 85% or above for comprehension. Please encourage your child to read. The AR grades - comprehension and goal percentage - will be recorded Monday,December 18th. ****Your child has until Monday, December 18thto read his/her goal. AR goal percentage and comprehension percentage will be recorded Monday afternoon.
I always read a book aloud to them each nine weeks. We are now readingWonder. If you haven't read this book, read it! It is wonderful. Your child will be able to take an AR test on this book the second nine weeks.
English - We will begin chapter 7 and learn about conjunctions, compound and complex sentences.
In writing, we will begin continue writing a descriptive paper about our bedrooms. Your child should be able to add a lot of descriptive detail about his/her bedroom. We're working on adding strong adjectives, figurative language, and writing to "paint a picture" in our reader's mind. The revised papers will be due Tuesday, October 24th. We willbegin writing a persuasive piece after we complete our descriptive piece.
Spelling - Our spelling words for this week are: bargain, journey, pattern, arrive, object, suppose, shoulder, permit, sorrow, tunnel, subject, custom, suggest, perhaps, lawyer, timber, common, publish, burden, scissors, narrate, mentor, attempt, collide, and ignore.
The spelling assignments for the week are: Monday- 3 x each, Tuesday- spelling worksheet,Wednesday- spelling 10 sentences. Each sentence MUST have a minimum of seven words. On Thursday, October 5th, we will have a regular spelling test. We will NOT have a dictation test this week due to DARE meeting on Friday, October 27th.
Have a wonderful week!!