Oct. 11,2013

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

                        

WEEKEND NEWS

OCTOBER 11, 2013

                                           

Dear Parents,

IMPORTANT  INFORMATION

·                     NEW AR GOALS HAVE STARTED:  I have attached a note with your child’s new AR reading range and his/her new AR point goal for this 6 weeks. 

·                     This is a wonderful site for finding AR levels and point values for books you may have at home.  www.arbookfind.com   

·                     Help us win the parent portal contest! The class with the most parents logged into parent portal this current year will win a frozen yogurt party.  Please help us win!!  Go to the school district web site and log in to parent portal.  If you need a GUID #, please contact the office.

·                     McTeacher's night is Tuesday, October 15th 5:00 to 7:00 p.m. at the Chubbuck McDonald's at 4260 Yellowstone Ave.  Fourth grade teachers will be there between 6:00 and 7:00. A portion of the sales will be donated to Ellis Elementary School.

·                     PTA is sponsoring a “Family Reading Night” on Tuesday, Oct. 22^nd

·                     GRANDPARENTS AND GRANOLA: Grandparents are invited to come and read with their grandchild while they snack on granola. 

o   Grandparents (last names beginning with A-M) come on Oct. 23 from 8:30-9:00

o   Grandparents (last names beginning with N-Z) come on Oct. 24 from 8:30-9:00

                              

THIS WEEK’S HOMEWORK

*   Language:  Drops In The Bucket C8

*   Language:  Types of Sentences

*   Math:  Drops In The Bucket #32

*  Reading:  read nightly and fill out your reading log.

READING & LANGUAGE SKILLS FOR NEXT WEEK’S STORY

STORY:  Tomas and the Library Lady

COMPREHENSION SKILLS & STRATEGIES:

Sequence of Events: identify order of story events, identify signal words

Predict/Infer:  use clues from the text and personal experience to make a prediction or inference about the story

Drawing Conclusions:  use story details to figure out what the author does not explain directly.

SPELLING:  /ou/ and /o/

LANGUAGE:  Common and Proper Nouns

VOCABULARY WORDS:  storyteller, borrow, check out, eager, glaring, lap, chattered

MATH SKILLS ADDRESS NEXT WEEK:

Addition and Subtraction Strategies

·         Use comparison bars to compare the differences between numbers.

·         Use break apart drawings to show a large number and the two addends that make up that number

MULTIPLICATION AND DIVISION

·         Continued practice on multiplication and division facts 0-12