Weekly Gazette (Week of Nov.10-Nov.14)

What is My Child Learning This Week?

Reading-We are beginning a unit on context clues and multiple-meaning words. This skill helps students use word and picture clues to figure out the meaning of an unknown word.

Math-comparing and ordering numbers to 1,000; writing numbers in words

Social Studies-Students are beginning to make a travel guide related to our unit on landforms and maps. This is their first big project. Detailed instructions and the due date will be sent home tomorrow.

Writing- Students are learning how to write a good sentence and how to use more vivid words instead of boring, overused words.

Word Wall- All the words this week are homophones: write, right, know, no, peace, piece, etc. Students do not have to be able to spell these words perfectly, but they are expected to know which one to use in a sentence. A list of words will be sent home today. Students are NOT expected to know all the words for Friday's quiz. The quiz will cover past words from the word wall.


Tests/Quizzes

• Friday, November 14th is a Word Wall quiz on past word wall words. Remember, students are able to use their portable word walls during the test.

• Timed test on addition facts this Friday, November 14th. Students have three minutes to answer thiry problems.

• Students will have a writing sample assessment this Thursday, November 13th. This is something that they can't study for in order to do well. It's simply a way for me to assess writing strengths and weaknesses.

Reminders/Important Information

• Please don't forget to donate clothes and/or blankets for Navidad Sin Frio.

• Please make sure your child has his/her personal dictionary bound and returned to school by December1st. Thanks!

• Graded papers will be sent home this Friday, November 14th.

Weekly Gazette (Nov.3-Nov.7)

What is Your Child Learning This Week?

Reading-We continue to work with main idea/details and how to put the most important ideas together to write a summary. Our primary text is the Social Studies textbook.

Writing-We are learning what is a good sentence and how to add details to make the sentence more interesting. 

Word Wall-We are continuing to learn about homophones. Our words for the week: or, are, too, two, to. 

Social Studies-We continue with the characteristics of the Earth and its landforms.

Math- We continue with double-digit addition and are beginning to practice writing and saying

            numbers up to 1,000 (place value). 

Tests and Quizzes

• Word Wall quiz this Friday, November 7th.
• Addition timed test this Thursday, November 6th.
• Main Idea quiz Friday, November 7th. (study guide will go home Tuesday).
• Double-digit addition problem solving quiz Thursday, November 6th. (study guide will go home Tuesday). 

Reminders

• Please check the Eagle Courier. 

• Parents, please make sure your child is on-time and present at school everyday. Every day missed is one more day that he or she becomes behind.

• Please sign and return your child's report card as soon as you're done reviewing it. 

• Although 2B's library time is every Friday, students are welcome to check-out books throughout the week once they have finished reading the other ones. They just need to ask the teacher for a pass, and they may go to the library during lunch or recess time.

Questions or concerns, email me: thurmiere@gmail.com