The Week Ahead 12/14-12/18

Thank you to all of the volunteers who spent the day with us at JA Biztown! These people had to attend a training, provide their own transportation across town, and make themselves available for a whole day. We would not have been able to participate in the awesome field trip without you! To see pictures from the field trip, look at the previous blog post from Wednesday, 12/9. 

 Students will have their spelling packet and reading log due on Monday, 12/14. Remember, the reading log is now completed online. The form can be found at the Reading Log Form tab on the class website. If your student will not have access to a computer, they can complete their reading log on a piece of paper. There will be no spelling packet or reading log due over the Winter Break. The next assigned spelling packet and reading log will be when we return from Winter Break. 

 Speaking of Winter Break, there will be another optional reading log and Moby Max math competition, similar to Thanksgiving. The students who read the most minutes and do the most minutes of math over break will be the first members of the January Wall of Fame. In addition, they will also receive a very small prize. 

 Students are in the middle of reading their fantasy novels. They will be giving book talks on their novel on Thursday, December 17th. A rubric was sent home with specifics on how the book talks will be scored. Students can use notecards during their book talk. Ask your student to tell you about a mentor or companion who helped the hero in their fantasy novel.

 In math we will continue our study of division. Students will be introduced to some new vocabulary terms like prime numbers, composite numbers, factors, multiples, and the associative property. Gaining a solid understanding of these terms will be important, as they will be used again in our next unit, which covers fractions. We have now gone over all of the numbers up to 12 in our weekly fact practice. Next week we will put them all together and practice doing all numbers 0-12 in our fact practice. On Friday, we will do a 4 minute multiplication fact assessment on all numbers 0-12 and see how much we've improved since the start of the year. 

 Upcoming Dates
  • Monday, December 14th - Reading Log & Spelling Packet Due/Spelling Test
  • Thursday, December 17th - Fantasy Book Talks
  • Friday, December 18th -Buddies & Class Winter Party (2-3)

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