Would you like something FUN and educational for your child to engage in over the weekend? If so, I have a great challenge available! If your child visits DOGO News (click on image below) and posts a COMMENT about a kid-friendly news article they read on the site, they will receive 5 bonus points!!!! These bonus points will go towards their Martian Money payment to be used at our Galaxy Mall!! - Click on image below to go to DOGO News
- Find a great news article to read.
- Comment on this BLOG POST telling me the following:
- Your first name
- Article title
- A few sentences summarizing the article
- Your favorite part of the article
4. DON'T FORGET TO EDIT YOUR BLOG POST FOR SPELLING, GRAMMAR, & PUNCTUATION!! Points will only be given to students with correctly written entries, so check your work before submitting!
GRAMMAR:MATH:- rounding
- estimating
- add double-, triple-, and larger digit numbers
- place value
- XtraMath facts practice
SOCIAL STUDIES:- BEGINNING OUR SOLAR SYSTEM UNIT!
- Map Skills and Geography assessments
| We are making great progress through our curriculum and soaring through our learning targets!
LITERACY:- Comprehension: visualization and making mental images
- Accuracy: long vowel pairs (ee, ea, ay, ai, ow, oa) (When two vowels go walking, the FIRST one does the talking!)
- Fluency: Voracious reading, smooth and expressive voice, choosing just right/good fit books, 5 finger rule
- Expanding Vocabulary: using schema and mental images to determine definitions and remember/use new vocabulary
- Daily 5 training and stamina practice for"Read to Self," "Read to Someone," "Work on Writing," and "Word Work"
WRITING:- journaling, editing, revising
- 6 Traits-ORGANIZATION & SENTENCE FLUENCY: "terrible, horrible, no good picture days"
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MATH:- rounding
- estimating
- add double-, triple-, and larger digit numbers
- place value
- XtraMath facts practice
SOCIAL STUDIES:- Map Skills and Geography
- using map keys and scales
- hemisphere, continent, Equator, Prime Meridian, country, state, county, city
- cardinal directions (N,S,E,W)
- intermediate directions (NE, SE, NW, SW)
| We are making great progress through our curriculum and soaring through our learning targets!
LITERACY:- Comprehension: schema, story elements (characters, setting, problem, solution)
- Accuracy: chunk sounds to decode (Chunky Monkey), lips ready for beginning and ending sound (Fishy Lips)
- Fluency: Voracious reading, smooth and expressive voice, choosing just right/good fit books, 5 finger rule
- Expanding Vocabulary: activating prior knowledge to define words, highlighting key words in definitions
- Daily 5 training and stamina practice for"Read to Self," "Read to Someone," "Work on Writing," and "Word Work"
GRAMMAR:WRITING:- journaling, editing, revising
- 6 Traits-IDEAS: unusual animal stories, imaginary friends, bad cases of.....
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MATH:- Daily math review (spiral math concept practice)
- Story problem procedures, key words, and practice
- Place value
- XtraMath facts practice
SOCIAL STUDIES:- Map Skills and Geography
- hemisphere, continent, Equator, Prime Meridian, country, state, county, city
- cardinal directions (N,S,E,W)
- intermediate directions (NE, SE, NW, SW)
| These first couple of weeks of school have been both fun and packed full of routine practice and curriculum implementation!LITERACY:- Comprehension: check for understanding, story elements, back up and re-read
- Accuracy: cross-check (Does it look right, sound right, & make sense?)
- Fluency: Voracious reading, smooth and expressive voice, choosing just right/good fit books, 5 finger rule
- Expanding Vocabulary: Voracious reading, tune into interesting words
- Daily 5 training and stamina practice on "Read to Self," "Read to Someone," and "Work on Writing"
GRAMMAR:- Common and proper nouns
- Editing
WRITING:- Daily journaling procedures and stamina
- Editing marks introduction/application
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