Due Date: Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Be encouraging your child to think about “Character Dress-Up Day” on October 31. Your child needs to choose a favorite book character, and dress up like him/her. Next week’s writing assignment will be about this book character.
Family Writing: (In school we are working on creating story idea lists, telling stories and writing personal narratives.)
Think about an exciting experience or event that you would like to share. Consider creating a mood of suspense, humor, or fantasy. Tell what happened and how you felt.
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.
If your child is writing it on his/her own, look over the story with your child when he/she is finished. See if you and your child can add some details to make the story more clear and vivid. 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.
Reading: (In school we are working on establishing strategies that readers use. This week we’ve reviewed many strategies. We’ve also been working on recognizing suffixes and retelling stories.)
Language arts homework, “One Tent, What Next?” (3rd grade reading level). and “Moving Out Day” (2nd grade reading level) are 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. I tried to give your child the story at the reading level that will benefit him/her the most.
Your child should now be reading 30 minutes each day. Don’t forget to help your child remember to bring the RAH (Read at Home) folder back to school each day. If you don’t have time to read one evening, please sign the card and write in 0 minutes. That’s ok once in awhile!
Math:
* Your child needs to continue working on memorizing the addition and subtraction facts. There is a link on our Blog, “Online Flashcards” that is fun for students to use to build up their computational fluency. Help with this would be appreciated.
* On Friday I will send “Arrays” packet home. Directions will be with the packet. When they are returned by Wednesday, I will send them back home with games to play with them.
*A math game called “Cover 50” has directions with it. It reinforces multiples. This has been a challenge for many students! Play it a few times each week during the month of October. Keep the game and play once in awhile throughout the year.
In science we are continuing our work sample for our matter unit. Students are testing a substance to see if it is a solid, a liquid, or a gas.
