Due Date: Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Dear Parents:
There’s a new entry just below this one that will help with the math state assessment. At the bottom of our classroom Blog page, you can subscribe to our Blog, so new postings will show up on your Google homepage.
Assignments:
Family Activity and Writing: Write one paragraph about Martin Luther King. Include a topic sentence, 3-6 detail sentences to support the topic sentence, and a concluding sentence. I’ve been reading a story about Martin Luther King to the class. Last Friday we will saw a movie about him. Here is a link to Discovery (United Streaming) that has several movies about him: http://www.discoveryeducation.com/ . Once you are on the site, sign in with your username and password (It's on the paper copy I sent home with students on Thursday, 1/20/11) Under “search”, key in “Martin Luther King”. The internet is another source of information. Students can also learn about him from you. Working and 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.
Literacy:
Language arts homework, “Power Snack”, is similar in format and skills to the Oregon third grade reading assessment. It will benefit your child greatly to complete it each week. PLEASE feel free to help your child with it, even on some of the reading, if necessary.
Don’t forget to help your child to remember to read and to bring the RAH (Read at Home) folder back to school each day. If you don’t have time to read one evening, please still sign the card with 0 minutes written in.
Math:
* Check out the “Math Vocabulary for State Assessment” on our Blog site. Learning these vocabulary words will help your child do better on the state math assessment! Some of the words will be new to your child. Remember they are a list for grades 3-5. Use the vocabulary words in a game. Pause after each question for thinking or discussion time. With the right answer, your child can roll the dice and advance on any game board.
* Math problems—These problems are a bit different than the previous ones I’ve sent home. A calculator may be used to solve these problems. They are larger digit problems than what we’ve worked with in the classroom.
*Math quilt for extra practice in multiplication is in the packet this week.
*Continue playing the game “Fraction Card Game” that I sent home last week.
*Continue playing the 2 math games that I’ve sent home, “Multiplication Pairs” and “Count and Compare”. Please play these often at home. It will take a lot of practice!
*Continue playing the math game I sent home earlier, “Cover 50” at least once a week.
Thank you!
Ginny Ryan
