Week of September 10

Reminder

Scholars will be going on a field trip on Monday, to the Holocaust Museum. The cost is $5.50.  We will be leaving at 9am and will return around 2pm. Please have scholars wear school uniform. This was an incentive trip, so for those scholars that have not been turning in their homework, they were not allowed to attend this field trip.

On Friday, September 14 we will be going to the Science Museum. Please make sure scholars turn in that permission form by next Wednesday.

Progress Reports

Progress Reports are going home on Friday, September 7. Please go over the grades with your scholars. As we can see BAS and MAP is a great portion of our scholars reading and math grade. Scholars should be a reading at level P and scoring a 200 or above on MAP Reading. They should be scoring a 204 or above on MAP Math. We really are trying to push your scholars above and beyond so your help is greatly appreciated.

MAP GAMES

Reading

http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/scholasticnews/index.html

Math

http://www.sowashco.k12.mn.us/ro/Pages/studentlinks/map/

Math


Last week scholars were working on place value all the way to the billions! Their math brains are really doing well. On the test we had 3 As, 14 Bs, 7 Cs, and a couple below. Please continue to study for your test and making sure all your homework is complete.

Homework
Monday- Textbook Pg 25 and 26 Problems 2-20
Tuesday- Textbook Pg 31and 32 Problems 3-34
Wednesday-Textbook pg 34 ALL STUDY FOR TEST
Thursday- Chapter 2 TEST!
Friday- Going on websites for MAP

Word Study

 This week we will introduce our Vocabulary lesson in place of the Word Study list.  Homework will consist of skill practice on nouns rather than the usual word study homework.  Scholars will become familiar with the vocabulary lesson pattern of two mini-lessons and a quiz.  We are targeting the specific vocabulary concepts based on MAP data.  Next week, we will resume the regular word study in addition to vocabulary.

Reading

 This week, readers will increase their awareness of reading metacognition . . . thinking about their thinking!  Scholars who are below reading level are required to read 45 minutes per night and scholars reading at or above grade level will read 30 minutes.  All scholars should complete their nightly reading log which parents should sign.  It is imperative that scholars are reading at their independent reading level.  Scholars can borrow books from our library as needed.  Please let us know if we can help you help your child at night.

Science 

We are excited about our field trip to the Museum of Science and Industry on Friday!  We will be preparing with activities during the week.  We are also completing our first unit on the scientific method so we will review and take our test this week.  Scholars will continue observing and recording data about our rooting plants, and we have ongoing science labs going on in the classroom.