Welcome back and Happy New Year! Hopefully everyone had a relaxing break with some extra family time and you are ready to get back into the swing of things at school!
Here's what's coming up this week:
Language Arts:
Skills/strategies: We will be reviewing main idea and summarizing by reading books, passages, and doing practice activities during Reading Jam.
Please be sure that your child is reading nightly. Studies show that daily reading shows significant growth in vocabulary development and overall achievement. We want our kids to LOVE books and become lifelong readers, so we must work together to foster that love of reading.
Math:
We will continue to work on multiplication and division, but will be starting equality in an equation (balancing equations) and the associative property of addition. It is critical that students are practicing their facts daily (all basic facts: addition/subtraction/multiplication/division). Lack of fact fluency really slows them down in their computation of larger numbers.
Students should be bringing home their math notebook any time they have math homework and should be using notes as a guide for the steps.
Remember to use the portaportal site to review math concepts at home: http://www.portaportal.com/
I sent the login information via email in the beginning of the year. If you need it again, just email me: devon.day@nn.k12.va.us
Virginia Studies:
We started our unit on the American Revolution today. I will send home the notebook daily so students can continue to review notes since it's a lot of information to learn. Be sure to have conversations about what they're learning to help it stick! :) Stay tuned to the agenda for upcoming assessment dates!
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