News From Room 208
Mrs. Crabtree/Week of November 10th
Homework Schedule
Monday:1. Read a “just right” book for 20 minutes. Remember to record it on your reading log.
2. Read the Conversation Starter # 2 on the back. Practice skip counting by 5’s from 0 to 120. Refer to the hundreds chart in your folder if you need it to help you.
Tuesday: NO SCHOOL
1. Read the study tip below. Read the short passage, “Pirates” with an adult. Remember to read the text and the text features. Then, retell what you’ve learned using transition words. If you can’t remember all of the important facts, remember to refer back to the text and do some rereading.
2. Practice skip counting by 5’s. This time start at 65 and count up to 200.
Wednesday:
1. Read a “just right” book for 20 minutes. Remember to record it on your reading log.
2. Practice skip counting by tens. Begin at the number 36 and count up to 136.
Thursday:
1. Do both sides of the skip counting math sheet.
Study Tip For the Week
In class we are learning to read non-fiction text with energy and power. The children are so excited about all of the new information they are learning. After we read non-fiction and learn a lot of new information, we need to think about how we will share and remember that information.
In class your child has learned that a strong non-fiction retell includes important information (who, what, where, why, when, and how) and transition words. Transitional words are like super glue. They hold all of the facts together. Here is a list of some of the transition words we’ve used in class: One thing I learned is…, Another thing I learned is…, I also learned…, Now I know…,one kind, another kind, etc.
After reading the short passage “Pirates” with your child, ask him/her to retell the important facts they learned. Encourage him/her to use transition words. If your child has a difficult time recalling the information that was read, he/she should refer back to the text and reread. You can also prompt your child to include more information in his/her retell by saying, “Can you tell me more?”
1. Our word of the week is baffle. Ask your child what this means and encourage him/her to use it appropriately in daily conversations. You could make it fun by tallying how often your family can use each new word in the weeks to come!
2. In math, the Common Core Standards state that students need to be able skip count by 5s, 10s and 100s from 0 to 1,000. In class, we have been practicing this important, yet difficult skill, to improve our number sense and prepare us to count money, tell time, add double-digit numbers, etc. In counting by 5s, we discovered the pattern that the number in the ones place will always have a zero or a five. For example: 45, 50, 55, 60, 65, 70… . In counting by tens, the students have learned that the ones place stays the same and the number in the tens place increases by one ten. For example: 58, 68, 78, 88, 98, 108, 118… . In counting by hundreds, the students have learned that the ones and tens places stay the same and the hundreds place increase by one hundred. For example: 139, 239, 339, 439, 539… . One way you can help your child with this skill at home is to choose random numbers and ask him/her to skip count by either 1s, 5s or 10s.
3. We continue to work on narrative writing and the students have been focusing on craft and elaboration to make their stories better. Adding more powerful verbs, describing the setting using senses and using similes to make comparisons are just some of the ways students have working on craft. Elaboration involves bringing the characters to life using details, talk and action. Students practiced the “Show, Don’t Tell” method for showing a character’s feeling, rather than simply just telling the feelings.
Example of “Show, Don’t Tell”: Tell feelings: Sue was scared when she went into the haunted house. Show feelings: With each step into the haunted house, Sue could feel her heart beat faster and faster.
The students also learned that “sprinkling” in talk (dialogue) helps bring characters to life. They worked on adding talk using quotation marks and need to remember that less is more. Too much dialogue can confuse the reader and takes away from the action in a story.
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