Sunday, October 4, 2015

Week of October 5

Parents... Please note that our grading system on FOCUS is having issues. Due to changes being made in the program, some grades have been removed and weighting has been changed. Mrs. Cox and I are in the process of putting the grades back in. Thank you for your patience with this.

This week is Jax Goes to College week!!  We would like Bartram to participate by having students interview a family member about their Career. Our school counselors will be sending home a "parent  interview" sheet on Monday and they would like students to return it by Friday. This can be logged on the RAH log for reading one night this week!

Resources this week:
Wednesday is Early Release.
Kluge: 
Monday: PE
Wednesday: Computer Lab 
Thursday: Art
Cox:
Monday: Computer Lab
Tuesday: Art
Wednesday: Art
Friday: Music 

ELA: Early in the week, your child will bring home something special to share with you. Students have worked very hard on this project and I am so proud of their hard work on this mid-unit assessment! 
This week we will be working toward reading with fluency when we read aloud. Reading with fluency is directly related to understanding what we read. The four components of reading with fluency are: phrasing   rate   punctuation   expression

Throughout the week, we will work with excerpts from books we have read in class and poetry to focus on reading with fluency. We will read texts numerous times to build fluency and then read aloud to a partner. Partners will give feedback to each other based on the areas above. On Wednesday, students will read text they have rehearsed for an assessment of fluency.

Things to do at home: 
  • Choose a paragraph that has some characters talking from your chapter book. Think about phrasing, rate, punctuation, and expression and practice reading the paragraph with fluency. Perform your paragraph for someone at home or have a parent record you on their smart phone so you can hear yourself afterward. Reflect on your fluency.
  • Record your reading and any Achieve3000 lessons on your RAH log. 

Math: This week in math we will continue solving two-step word problems involving all four operations, and determining the reasonableness of our answers.  The students will complete the Module 1 End of Module assessment on Tuesday.  Please review our “Study Guide” with your child to help prepare him/her for the assessment.  We will begin to explore time as a continuous measurement and relate skip-counting by fives on the clock and telling time to a continuous measurement model, the number line.  We will be counting by fives and ones on the number line as a strategy to tell time to the nearest minute on the clock. 


Math Homework:
Study for End of Module Assessment (use study guide sent home on Friday)
Module 2 Lesson 1
Module 2 Lesson 2
Module 2 Lesson 3

Things to do at home: 
  • Practice telling time using an analog and digital clock
  • Use clock to practice skip counting by fives, counting backwards and forwards       
  •  Continue practicing multiplication facts 2-5
Science: This week in Science students will continue to learn the importance of maintaining accurate records of their observations and communicating their observations with others. 


Math Videos to assist with homework:

Module 1 lesson 21:


Module 2 lesson 1:


Module 2 lesson 2:


Module 2 lesson 3:


Module 2 lesson 4: