fDear Parents, We have an exciting week ahead of us! On Monday we get to take our annual trip to the Musical Instrument Museum, which should be a lot of fun. We will experience the musical contributions of cultures from across the globe. Make sure you remember to pack your student a lunch for the field trip! We are also introducing fractions this week, and that can be a stressful topic for some students. We are going to be working on simplifying the concept and showing them that understanding fractions is actually quite simple. Make sure you keep encouraging them to push themselves hard, and remind them that no concept is beyond their grasp or ability. This WeekIn Spalding we will be finishing list Q and moving into list R in our Spalding blue books. This means harder words, but your students are more than ready. Keep encouraging to practice their Spalding tools at home. In Literature we will be rehearsing our play, Twelfth Night, pretty much every day from now until we perform it! It is Reader's Theater, so your students do not have to memorize lines, but they should work hard to become familiar with them. I will let you know ASAP when the performance date is so you can block out time to come see it. In ELA we will be learning about how to use quotation marks this week. Ask your student about it and see if they can explain when you put a sentence in quotes and when you don't. We will also continue working on keyword outline building. Being able to create a keyword outline is an important skill that will be used on the AZmerit test. In Math we are diving into fractions! They may seem scary, but fractions are actually one of the easiest concepts in math to get. Basically, whenever you break a whole into parts...you can name the parts! That is the only fundamental concept, everything else is a convention. If your students get frustrated, always bring it back to that simple concept and remind them that they are capable. Upcoming Assessments1) Spalding
- Spelling Test on Friday 2) Math - Fractions quiz next Monday (the 19th). Comments are closed.
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