October 5-9
Hello C3 Families!
ANNOUNCEMENTS
I hope you all had a great weekend! I am looking forward to seeing many of you at conferences this week! We will be going over your child's progress, their conference self-reflection, and some ways to keep skills sharp at home.
Minimum Days Next Week
*We will have noon dismissal Monday-Friday this week for conferences.
Tuesday Envelope: Every Tuesday, your child will come home with an envelope of finished work, graded quizzes and tests and announcements. This week, they will come home with their graded Topic D math quiz and ELA Unit 2 weeks 1 and 2 quizzes. Please be sure to sign your student's quizzes and review the content with them. Yellow envelopes need to be returned on Thursdays.
Daily Math Review Homework Begins This Week
Students will begin daily math review homework starting on Monday 10/5. This assignment has columns for Monday-Thursday, much like how their cursive pages have sections for each day of the week. This will be due on Fridays. We will go over the Monday column on Tuesdays to make sure students are on the right track and will correct the remainder of the assignment on Fridays.
OUR WEEK AT A GLANCE
ELA: This week, we will be finishing Benchmark Advance Unit 2, Characters' Actions and Reactions. In this unit, students will read and compare characters in fables, fairy tales, and fantasies and analyze their actions and reactions. We will be working on our Week 3 packet this week. Students will take the Unit 2 test on Friday. This week, we will be reading "How Dorothy Saved the Scarecrow."
Writing: We will continue working on narrative writing this week. Students will finish working on a narrative about an amusement park and will peer edit their work.
Math: This week, we will finish Module 1, Topic E. In topic E, students express metric units of length, mass, and liquid volume in terms of smaller units and solve word problems that have measurement contexts.
Later this week, we will begin Module 2, Topic A. In topic A, students revisit their multiplication and division facts from grade 3, represent multiplication and division with familiar models, and continue to strengthen their understanding of the relationship between multiplication and division. They do so while building conceptual understanding of multiplying and dividing multiples of 10 by one-digit numbers. This conceptual understanding is essential to the rest of the module as it prepares students to multiply two-digit by one-digit numbers and divide two-digit by one-digit numbers.
Topic E quiz Tuesday
Module 1 test Wednesday
Homework: Homework includes Math Apply Book pages, cursive, daily math review and 20 minutes of reading. Please refer to the Homework page on my website to view the schedule. Checking your student’s communicator is the best way to stay updated on homework. I try to stick to the homework listed on the website, but sometimes plans change and the communicator will have the most updated information.
REMINDERS
Please take care of all folders that come home, they need to last the whole year!
Please check and sign your student’s communicator daily
Remember to pack a water bottle during these warm months! (only water is permitted in the classroom.)
Noon dismissal all week
Looking forward to another great week!
Thank you!
Mrs. McLaughlin