Reading:

This week we have been working on the following:

• identifying the Central Idea or Main Idea of text

• identify organizational patterns such as cause and effect and problem and solution

• Tracking our Fluency to determine how many WPM we read.

Next week we will:

• continue to identify cause and effect relationships

• Take the 2nd TEKS CHECK in Reading

*Your child will not have a Guided Reading Book come home next week due to Middle of the Year testing. Please have your child read each night from his/her library book.

*Your child will have a reading homework assignment. They will come home with an activity in which they match the Effect to the Cause. This homework assignment will be due on Friday, December 10th.

Math:

This week we have been working on the following:

Multiplication:

• We worked on reading arrays to help us with multiplication and how to use them. They are our FAVORITE strategy now! :)

• We wrote multiplication equations and the matching addition equations (the repeated addition)

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• We took our Middle of the Year AimsWeb assessment for math

• We took our 5's multiplication test this week. (or 2's, 3's, or 4's , if we haven't mastered those levels yet.)

• We worked on IXL and Education Galaxy assignments and fact fluency on both SplashLearn and MobyMax.

Next, week's focus:

• Multiplying by all the facts 0-5.

• Introducing division and the vocabulary that goes with it.

• Increasing our fluency with our Fun Facts.

• We will have our first Division Fun Facts Quiz on Friday over the 2's facts.

• Fact Families will be discussed for multiplication and division relationships,

Remember: Homework is due on Friday, but can come back any day prior to Friday. Thank you so much for helping them with this responsibility.

Science:

Grammar:

This week's focus phrase:

I an use commas to separate three or more items in a list.

Writing:

Next week's focus

• Informational Text

• Students will continue working on writing their informational text. Students are writing paragraphs to include a main idea with supporting details.

• Students are also incorporating text features such as Table of Contents, Glossary, Diagrams, Illustration with caption, etc. for their final informational writing.

Spelling:

Students will not receive a spelling list this week. We will spend this week learning about Contractions.

On Thursday, students will take a Pre-Test on contractions to determine which list of spelling words they will receive for the test the following week.