Our goal this year at Forest Ridge is to improve students’ writing. Family writing assignment for this week: Think of a gift you’d like to give someone. It could be an object or a value like love, forgiveness, or peace. Tell why you selected this gift, who you wish to give the gift to, and why. Also include what you’d like this person to do with the gift. Tell how the gift will change this person’s life. Use many details. Include a beginning, middle, and ending.
Writing together encourages your child to see you having fun with writing, and allows you an opportunity to spend time with your child while he/she learns. Please have your child bring the writing in by Friday, January 30
Students are reviewing 2-digit (second graders) and 3-digit (third graders) subtraction in math. We are also working on multiplication by studying groups of things and multiples.
Later this week, I’ll send a math game home called “Cover 50”. We’ll play it in class first. Then I’ll send the directions home with your child, so he/she can teach you to play!
Last week, on Thursday, students wrote a list of “Words to Learn” that they need to study. These words will be recycled throughout the year. They’ll probably even show up on another word check that I give later. Almost everyday we work for about 15 minutes on learning spelling patterns, so your child will become a lifetime speller. We don’t just memorize words!
Third graders weren’t able to take the reading state assessment on Thursday because Oaks (the testing website) was down for the entire state. Hopefully it will be up and running by next week, so we can reschedule the assessment.
Take home folders (with reading logs attached) need to be turned in on Thursday.
