I hope you enjoyed winter break with your students. I enjoyed the time off, but I did miss their smiling faces. I was listening to the stereo with a friend over break and Imagine Dragons’ Thunder came on. The kids chose this as our classroom song. When it played, I realized how much I missed them!
This week, we will review some of the things covered in the last month of 2018. We will also work on classroom community and behavior expectations. We will revisit our chrome book classroom policy as well our student created classroom rules and expectations.
All students will complete paper homework this week. It will help students get back into the routine of recording nightly homework and being responsible for returning it daily. Next week, digital homework will be an option.
Students will have fluency each night. They should read the passage aloud for 1 minute. Review unknown words and record correct words per minute and errors on the bottom of the page. They should do this each night for one minute. They see their growth each night and over the course of the week.
I’ve also included a writing task (one paragraph to be completed by the end of the week). We will create a similar paragraph in class. Monday night is brainstorming. Tuesday students write a draft topic sentence, and then a beginning, middle, and end sentence before writing a concluding sentence. Some parents/students like to add the first couple of sentences to Monday night’s work. I understand that preference. On Wednesday, they use their sentences to write a first draft. On Thursday they make corrections and write a final draft. It is important they do some of the writing each night. If they don’t, Thursday night homework can become painful. I’ve also included a writing rubric, a writing checklist, and a list of transition words for reference while writing.
In math, we will review elapsed time and rounding each day before working on addition strategies.
In reading, we will revisit 3rd grade standards for point of view and comparing and contrasting. Next week, we will start our next class novel.
Report cards will come home on Friday. If you have any questions, please feel free to reach out.
This week’s homework: 2019-01-07-homework.pdf
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