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Class Schedule~2007-2008

Time

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

7:45—8:30

Morning Work, Check Homework, Attendance, Pledge

8:30—9:50

9:50—10:00

Math

Snack/Bathroom Break

Math

Snack/Bathroom Break

Math –

9:40-Snack/BB

ART—9:50—10:30

Math

9:40—Snack/BB

Music—9:50—10:30

Differentiated Math-

9:20—9:50

Snack/BB

10:00—10:58

Language Arts

Whole Group Lesson

Spelling Pretest

Language Arts

Whole Group Lesson

Language Arts

Whole Group Lesson

Language Arts

Whole Group Lesson

Language Arts

Whole Group Lesson

Spelling Test

10:58—11:28

Lunch

11:28—11:35

Bathroom Break

11:35—12:50

Language Arts

Differentiated Technology Lessons

Laptops

Flex groups

Language Arts

Differentiated Technology Lessons

Laptops

Flex Groups

Language Arts

Flex Groups

Writer’s Workshop

Language Arts

Flex Groups

Writer’s Workshop

Language Arts

Flex Groups

Writer’s Workshop

12:50—1:30

Content Area

Social Studies/Science/Health

Content Area

1:30—2:20

Physical Education

2:20—2:30

Closing

I have completed all of my DRA testing. Children have made significant progress/growth throughout this school year. I am very pleased with how each child has done in the area of reading comprehension. Thank you for all your support at home. Our students have not only become proficient readers, they have also developed the necessary reading strategies to make connections, draw conclusions, predict outcomes and make visualizations about literature selections. All of these strategies will further their success in the area of reading.

We have completed Unit 5 in our reading series. Children did very well on their Unit-Skills test and we are now moving onto Unit 6~ our final unit in reading.

Below are skills that will be reviewed in this final unit.

Prefix patterns—ex, un, re, and dis~

Realism and Fantasy—review of different Genre Forms

Reading Different Graphs—bar and circle

Identifying other words for “said” –ie: shouted, whispered, chattered,

Defining Quotation Marks—children will understand that they show the beginning and end of words someone says~

Context Clues—continue to use reading strategies to help identify unknown words and their meanings

Review Similes—

Review of how to write a Friendly letter~

When to use commas-

Review of nouns, proper nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs, and pronouns

Continue to review predicting and story mapping skills

There will be one last reading log assigned. Please encourage your child to go above and beyond the required minutes.

http://www.juliethompson.com/SMART.html

We are working on our last unit in math. Unit 12 focuses on calendar/clock skills, timelines, multiplication facts, division from multiplication, and sets of data.

Our class has been reviewing multiplication facts. We have covered 0-4 thus far and will cover 5-9 the last two weeks of school. Please review these multiplication facts with your child each night.

This will help them be prepared for third grade.

Challenge Math~ The children in this group have worked very hard this year. They have gone above and beyond and have had the opportunity to be exposed to higher level math skills.

The last couple weeks of school, I will introduce these students to simple algebraic equations. Your child will understand what a variable is and how numbers and letters are included in equations.

Continue to practice basic addition, subtraction, and multiplication facts each night with your child.

https://www.emgames.com/index.html

Citizenship Unit~

We are completing our unit on citizenship this week. Children will be given a quiz at the end of the week.

Components that make up a good citizen include:

Voting

Being kind to others

Helping in the community

Volunteering

Treating others with respect

Knowing how to be a good friend

Our last unit of study in science is habitats.

We have already visited the science lab and had an intro lesson to this unit. Children will further their studies through in class lessons and hw.

A study guide will be coming home soon to review material covered for our upcoming test.

We will continue to review writing in complete sentences and checking over our work for punctuation and capitalization errors.

Students should be able to identify the four types of sentences~

Question—Interrogative

Statement—Declarative

Command—Imperative

Exclamation—Exclamatory

We will heavily review these the last couple weeks of school.

We will also review paragraph writing and letter writing.

Children will continue to practice cursive each day and we will also finish up our poetry unit.

Please encourage your child to practice his/her writing skills each night.

Poetry Links:

Acrostic:

http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/acrostic/

Online Poetry

http://www.starfall.com/n/level-b/poetry/load.htm?

Word Families/Other Reviews

http://www.woodlands-junior.kent.sch.uk/Games/mag/spelling.html

Poetry Forms

http://ettcweb.lr.k12.nj.us/forms/newpoem.htm

Children will be given a spelling pretest each Monday. Children who receive a 100% on the Monday pretest will be given a differentiated word list to study for the week. The words will be a bit more difficult but there will only be 10 words instead of 15.

Please practice the pattern we are working on for each particular week with your child. He/she could

benefit from any extra reinforcement.

Spelling Words--- One last test—

Week of June 2^nd…

Below is a list of new web links I have added. They are sorted by category. I have included a critical thinking section for our high achievers. Have fun!!!

Autobiography –Bio-Cube Web Site

http://readwritethink.org/materials/bio_cube/.

Critical Thinking

· Aunty Math

http://www.auntymath.com

· Math Cats

http://www.mathcats.com

· Free Puzzles

http://www.freepuzzles.com/

· Math Dictionary

http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jeather/maths/dictionary.html

· Rainforest Math