This Week in Room 11 -- October 22-26

This week we are learning:

Reading:  Describe the connections between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.

Math:  Place Value

Writing:  Writing Lab Reports and Science Books

Language:  What do end marks do?

Spelling:  Kind Old Units

Spelling Words:

troll, fold, child, find, lost, gold, colt, wild, blind, frost

Homework:  Study spelling words each evening and read "The Wild Colt".

Monday:  Reading passage

Tuesday:  Math

Wednesday:  Reading Passage

Thursday:  Math

Book It forms are due by October 31st to receive pizza coupon.

Book It

Two students have read books and turned in their Book It form.  They have received their pizza coupon for October.  Way to go!! Keep reading.

This Week in Room 11 -- October 15-19

Learning Focus:

Reading:  Describe the connections between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text.

Math:  Place value

Writing:  Writing lab reports and science books

Language:  What do end marks do?

Homework:

Monday:  Reading passage
Tuesday:  Math
Wednesday:  Reading passage
Thursday:  Math

Study spelling words and read "The Hen" each night.

Spelling Words

match, bench, punch, rich, hatch, which, such, French, snitch, pitch

Sparky's Visit

The West Memphis Fire Department and Sparky came to Maddux this week to teach us about fire safety.

We learned to look for things in our home that are fire hazards.  Families also need to have a meeting place outside the house to know everyone is safe in case of a fire.  

A fireman put on his fire-fighting gear to let us know what he would look like if he entered our house during a fire.  We also got to hear how he would sound.  

Thank you to the West Memphis Fire Department and Sparky for helping us learn about fire safety!

This Week in Room 11 -- October 8-12

Learning Focus this Week:

Reading:  Identify the main topic of a multiparagraph text as well as the focus of specific paragraphs within the text.

Math:  Review measurement, begin place value

Writing:  Writing lab reports and science books

Language:  What Do End Marks Do?

Spelling:  Ing and ink units

Spelling Words:  cling, stung, thank, honk, wink, long, drink, fang, flunk, bring

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Homework:

Monday:  read nonsense words

Tuesday:  Math

Wednesday:  read nonsense words

Thursday:  math

Please study spelling words and read the passage on the back each night.

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This year half of our language arts grade is from decodable text assessments.  These consist of nonsense words.  Students are to blend the sounds together to say the word.

Some examples:  flup, kuz, shap, zash

Please listen to your child read these.  I have assigned them for Monday and Wednesday's homework.  It would be beneficial to go over these every night.

Daily 5

During our literacy block each day we have Daily 5.  This is our center time while some students have small group time with me.

Daily 5 consists of Read to Self, Read to Someone, Listen to Reading, Word Work and Work on Writing.

Read to Self:

Students read from their book bag.  They may sit in scoop chairs or on a rug to read.  They are reading independently and working on reading stamina.

Read to Someone:

Students read to someone from their book bag.  They sit elbow to elbow and knee to knee and take turns reading.  They may take turns reading the same book or each may take a turn reading their own book.

Listen to Reading:

Picture coming soon.
Students get on chromebooks and log in to their MobyMax account.  They listen to stories on the computer.

Word Work:

These students are making their spelling words with letter tiles.  During word work they practice spelling words and sight words with games and different activities.

Work on Writing:

Students practice writing with different activities.  She is using cards and making lists of various items.  We will also be doing some holiday writing activities soon.

This is a peek into some of our morning literacy activities.