Wow time sure does fly! We have started to spend
more time focusing on learning skills and how as a class we can set SMART goals
to work on each month. Last week students created their first learning skills
goal focusing on one of the learning skills (responsibility, organization,
collaboration, independent work, self-regulation, and initiative).
Math
We have spent a week on addition and subtraction
reviewing strategies to use and focus on solving word problems. Practicing
mental math strategies for addition and subtraction are great to do at home. I
found many students in Grade 4 and 5 needed the review.
Extra Math Help will be held every Wednesday and
Friday at Nutrition Break for students who would like extra practice or help.
Great Math Practice
1. Create your own problem and go through the
problem solving pencil to solve it!
2. Play addition around the world (add different
amounts of groups).
Example start at 6 add 6 = 12, add 6 = 18
3. A free resource with lots of addition games all
using a deck of cards
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Math-In-the-Cards-Math-Games-and-Activities-FREE-MATH-GAME-VERSION-492665
Language
Our reading Response books are set up and ready to
go! Students will be stopping and jotting their thinking, writing me letters,
recording new words in their expanded vocabulary list, practicing reading
strategies, and reading aloud to work on fluency this year to enhance their
reading skills.
In writing students did a great job decorating
their writer’s notebooks. We will be working through the 6 + 1 writing traits (Voice,
Ideas, Presentation, Conventions, Organization, Word Choice and Sentence
Fluency) to enhance their writing skills.
