Hi Families!
We hope you had a nice weekend! Thank you for all the amazing notes, pictures, and gifts last week for Teachers Appreciation! Please make sure you thoroughly read this newsletter as there will be some changes next week in each subject area! We will be posting the Seesaw activities the night before so parents can review the lesson and prepare for the next day. Please feel free to look at the assignments when they are posted, however, please do not post your response until the next day. Remember, all assignments are due by Saturday at 7PM. After that time the lessons will be archived and only posted to your students’ journal IF they completed the assignment. Reading: Continue to use Lexia and stamina read daily. You can use Raz-kids for supplemental reading material. Learning target: Retell stories, including key details, and demonstrate understanding of their central message or lesson. This is a story about a girl named Maya and her pet pig, Julius. Maya's grandfather brings her Julius from Alaska and the two of them learn about fun and sharing. Vocabulary: Wintered: spent the winter Alaska: one of the states in the United States where it is very cold Did a polar bear imitation: acted like a polar bear This will be Monday’s reading lesson and Wednesday the students will read a nonfiction book off Scholastic. Writing: We are on our 4th week of SERIES WRITING. Series writing is a realistic fiction story which has fictional characters going through real problems. Examples of these books in a series are: Biscuit, Henry and Mudge, Frog and Toad, Junie B. Jones, etc. They have the same characters, but the setting (when and where), problem, and solution change in each book. Your child will begin Book 4 this week while revising and editing Books 1-3. This week, students will be creating chapters when beginning their 4th book in their series. Chapter 1 will be the introduction; students should introduce their characters and setting. Chapter 2 is when the problem takes place and Chapter 3 is the solution to the problem and how the characters have changed throughout the story. As students continue writing their 4th book they will also look at real examples of how authors use pictures to add extra information and details in their stories. Students will also learn how to add details into their own illustrations to provide additional information for their readers! As your child is editing previous stories (they can even go back to add chapters) and working on their 4th book, please refer to the following charts for support:
We are trusting that you will not get ahead of the Seesaw lessons because it is important that students watch the corresponding lesson before doing any work! Our lessons will not be in numerical order so students will have to see what lesson number we are working on each day. We hope that providing the Problem Set books will take some stress away from the math work! Just remember to upload a picture of the completed required problems and upload to the corresponding Seesaw assignment. In addition, if you notice your student getting distracted or not being able to focus, set a timer for 10 minutes. During that 10 minutes, your child should be independently working on the math problems. Once the timer goes off, your child can be done and start going over their work with you. Students should be working that entire 10 minutes just like we did in class! Below you will find the previous weeks’ math lessons for reference. The days with a star are key lessons that students should watch even if they did not complete the assignment. Previous weeks’ math videos: Monday: No School *Tuesday:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kt4yEOvInWo&list=PL7HCvHr8hotxkTqnciIgApVqqhvvPBj1N&index=2&t=0s Wednesday:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hg__2e6jZmw&list=PL7HCvHr8hotxkTqnciIgApVqqhvvPBj1N&index=2 Thursday:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKdQIKLuEMM&list=PL7HCvHr8hotxkTqnciIgApVqqhvvPBj1N&index=3 Specialists: Check out your Enrichment Class on Seesaw to do some fun Library, Music, PE, Second Step, and PBSES activities! To get to the Enrichment Class on Seesaw, login to Clever and click on Seesaw. Once you are in Seesaw, go to the upper left corner where it says which class you are currently signed into. Click on the class and in the drop-down options you should see Enrichment Classes. Click on that class and you will be able to see all your Enrichment assigned activities! To get back to our class’ Seesaw, go back to the upper left class options and click our class name in the drop down! Extras: Thank you for making your pictures larger when submitting your work to Seesaw! Remember, you are more than welcome to print off the Seesaw assignments and do them on paper, but please upload your work! Check out the flier for a virtual Scholastic Book Fair! Students will be able to purchase books (spend $25 and get free shipping!) and support our PTA! The book fair will run from May 11th through the summer! As always, if you have any questions or concerns please let us know! Comments are closed.
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