Dear Family,
January 13, 2020
Count your
blessings if the flu hasn’t hit your household! We’ve had some sick children.
Every afternoon I’m wiping desks and chairs with Clorox wipes. I started
spraying the room with Lysol last week and will continue as Flu B is airborne. We
are coughing and sneezing into the inside of our shirts!!
This week
our story is The Dancing Bird of Paradise. We will learn about words
with the same base word or root word.
Some of us didn’t do as well last week on our reading test. I don’t know
if we were getting over the holidays or getting sick! I’ve added points to your
child’s grade because maybe I didn’t teach the material as well as I should’ve.
Your child needs to read the story every night….from the book, not a device.
Research shows comprehension is better when pages are turned. It also helps
them remember where certain information is in the story. Our tests are open
book so reading from the actual text helps.
I am so
pleased with our math successes! Mrs. Teresa Manning from the upper school visited
us and taught us “Around the World” to better learn our facts. She reminded us
in math we must be accurate, not necessarily fast. I’m adding a bit of time to
our timed test to alleviate any anxiety. Continue to push for one minute on 25
facts. This week we will begin subtracting two-digit numbers; writing to 1,000
using words; adding and subtracting multiples of 100; multiplying by 2;
and patterns.
We start
social studies today! We will begin with comparing maps and globes, a compass
rose, and intermediate directions (southwest, northeast, etc.).
Only 6th-12th
grades may have smart watches or cellphones at school (page 23 of our
handbook).
Teaching and
Loving Yours,
Miss
Suzann
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