Due Date: Wednesday, February 9, 2011
Dear Parents:
The first state reading assessment is next week! At this time, we’re scheduled for Thursday.
Check out our Blog site! There’s a vocabulary entry to 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.
http://forestridge.salkeiz.k12.or.us/
Assignments:
Family Writing: Write about the Heifer Project. Explain the importance of the project and how it will help people. Tell about what you are doing to help support our school effort in helping others in the world. Include a beginning, middle, and ending. 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.
Websites: http://www.heifer.org/ (Explore this site. The other links I added are from this website.
http://www.youtube.com/HeiferInternational
http://www.heiferinvite.org/heifercards/interactiveposter/index.html
Literacy:
Language arts homework, “History of Soccer”, 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 are mostly area and perimeter questions. Encourage use of a table for #1. It’s OK to use a calculator on #3, if needed. Review: perimeter—distance around a figure
Area- how many square units are inside the shape (the amount of space a figure or shape occupies)
*I’m sending home 2 new games, Capture the Fraction and Fraction Fish. The directions and game cards are attached to the packet.
*Continue playing the game “Fraction Card Game” that I sent home awhile back.
*Continue playing the 2 math games that I sent home earlier this year, “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”.
Valentines:
*Students are to make a valentines holder out of recycled materials at home. It needs to stay at home until Monday, February 14. Valentines for every child (attached is a student list) may be brought to school on Monday, February 14.
