Miss Nuzzo’s Classroom News

Shared Reading: Wild Christmas Reindeer___

Focus: Reindeer / Christmas ___ Date: Dec. 5 - 9, 2016

WORD WALL WORDS /

READING SKILLS

cupcake without
grandmother airplane
birthday playhouse
baseball toothbrush
footprints bookstore
housefly bedroom
cowboy afternoon
himself
*Word Wall Assessment Friday / ·  Compound Words
·  Describe how characters react to events/challenges in a story.
·  What do good readers do? Am I clear about what I read? How do I know?
·  Dictionary Skills
·  Answering who, what, when, where, why, and how questions
·  Text Features (fiction/nonfiction)
·  Story Elements: characters, setting, problem/solution
·  Referring back to text for justification of answers
·  Making Connections, Predictions, and Interpretations of a story
·  Determining Central Message/Moral in a story
·  Main Idea / Supporting Details
·  Compare and Contrast
·  Cause and Effect
·  Using Context Clues to Determine Meaning
·  Author’s Purpose
·  Summarizing/Retelling a story
·  Sequencing parts of the story: beginning, middle, end
*Cold Read Assessment Friday

LANGUAGE / WRITING SKILLS

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MATH

·  Compound Words
·  Quotation Marks
·  Commas
·  Synonyms, Antonyms, Homonyms
·  Parts of Speech
-Reviewing Nouns (all types), Verbs, Adjectives, Adverbs, Pronouns
·  Making Words Plural
·  Rules for Capitalization and Punctuation
·  Verb Tense (Past, Present, Future)
·  Identifying the four types of sentences
·  Contractions
·  Prefixes, Suffixes, and Root/Base Words
·  Comparing Adjectives (-er, -est)
·  Fact and Opinion
·  Informative Writing:
-Writing for a purpose (what is an informational book? And what are it’s parts)
-Elaboration, Definitions & Facts, Gathering Information
-Organizing With Headings, Main Idea
-Using Text Features To Tell More
-Introductions in an Informational Book
-Discuss Revising and Editing our writing / ·  Solving One-Step Word Problems (addition/subtraction)
·  Solving Two-Step Word Problems (addition/subtraction)
·  Place Value Of a Three-Digit Number
·  Counts Within 1,000 (by 1’s, 2’s, 5’s, 10’s, 100’s)
·  Reads and Writes Numbers To 1,000 (standard form, number names, and expanded form)
·  Tells and Writes Time To The Nearest Five Minutes Using A.M. and P.M.
·  Measures The Length Of Objects Using Inches, Feet, Centimeters and Meters.
·  Makes a Line Plot From Data Gathered By Measuring Lengths Of Different Objects
·  Review Even and Odd
·  Draws a Picture Graph and Bar Graph to Represent Data Gathered
·  Indentifies and Draws Shapes Having Different Attributes
·  Identifying more or less of a given number
·  Less Than < Greater Than > Equal To =
·  Working With Equal Groups (Repeated Addition, Building Arrays)
·  Money -counting, values, same amount different ways

SPECIAL NOTES

~Parents, do not send loose money in your child’s folder! All money should be in a sealed envelope with your child’s first and last name, my name, how much money is enclosed, and what the money is for on the outside of the envelope.
~Please check your child’s homework folder daily for notes and homework. Homework assignments are listed on the back of this newsletter. All homework is due on Fridays! Also, please note that my newsletter is on my website!!
~Please remind your child that second term is not over yet! Even though we only have two weeks before Christmas Break, these two weeks are very crucial and we are still learning new information. I need each child to give me 100% until the very last day.
~PBIS focus of the week: How to Be Respectful, Be Responsible, and Be Safe at RECESS!
~I look forward to another SPECTACULAR week!! J

Homework Assignments

Monday
Math and Language Practice
(Front and Back)
Study word wall words and math facts.
Read your reading fluency passage & record your time!
Tuesday
Math and Language Practice
(Front and Back)
Study word wall words and math facts.
Read your reading fluency passage & record your time!
Wednesday
Family Night
Study word wall words and math facts.
Read your reading fluency passage & record your time!
Thursday
Math and Language Practice
(Front and Back)
Study word wall words and math facts.
Read your reading fluency passage & record your time!
Friday
No Homework!
Have a Great Weekend!!
Read a book!