Continue the great work in reading with your child from 30 minutes
each day and recording it in their RAH folders.
In reading we’re working on predicting, determining the most important
events or details, sequencing, and retelling stories.
Math:
Now’s the time to play the array games at home. I’m hoping your child has already shown you
how to play Multiplication Pairs. If
not, the directions are attached. Also
the game Count and Compare and is
attached. Play this week several
times. Please keep the arrays and the
games to play periodically. It’s a great
way to practice multiplication facts and division facts. There should be a factor on the back of the
array, near the product (answer when you multiply). See if your child can determine the other
factor. That’s
division!
If you don’t have computer access
for you child, please work on flashcard practice. Second graders need to know their addition
facts through 10 + 10 (or 20’s) and subtraction facts through 20’s. Third graders need to know addition,
subtraction, and multiplication facts through 10’s (11’s and 12’s would be nice,
too!)
Please continue to have your child
use Xtra Math and SumDog. If you need the passwords, please let me
know.
Family Writing: Write a paragraph
about an interesting person you know. You may make
up parts of the paragraph to make your person more interesting! Describe him/her in detail including the
person’s action, thoughts, and what he/she says. You can add your own voice to it, by
including your feelings into the paragraph. Include a beginning, middle, and
ending.
Please use the
graphic organizer to think through the paragraph before beginning your draft on
notebook paper. Skip lines on the
notebook paper, so there is room to revise and edit the story. If the first draft is neat, a final copy is
not necessary.
Family writing is due the Tuesday
after you get back from Thanksgiving vacation, November 27. 2012.
In social studies we continue to
learn about geography. Your child should
know his/her address, including city, state, county, country, continent, and
hemispheres. We’ve been learning the
continents and the oceans. Ask your
child about this!!
I will send Scholastic Book orders
in on Friday, November 16 this month.
That should give us one more time to order before winter vacation. I’ll have to send that order in quickly for
us to get them back before vacation.
