2/24/09 Adjectives that Compare & Comparing Numbers

Part 1 (Daily Reading Homework): your child needs to read at least 20 minutes every night. 

Part 2 (Adjectives That Compare): We are working on comparative and superlative adjectives. We add -er to an adjective that compares two people or things. We can add -est to an adjective when we are comparing three or more things. First your child needs to underline the comparing adjectives in each sentence and then sort them into the chart under “Two” or “Three or More” ... the ones that end in -er will go under “Two” and those ending in -est will go under “Three or More.”

Part 3 (Before, After & Between): Please go over math-mat 12-2 with your child and check their understanding of comparing numbers.


Part 4 (Minute Math): Minute Math is a daily activity. It is not due until Friday.

2/23/09 Comparing Numbers & Drops in the Bucket

Part 1 (Daily Reading Homework): your child needs to read at least 20 minutes every night. 

Part 2 (Comparing Numbers). Please check your child’s understanding. Please go over their math work with them.

Part 3 (Math): Drops in the Bucket Math: The triangle in #5 of Drops in the Bucket is about fact families. It shows 6, 7, and ______ in the three corners. The students have learned to create 4 number sentences from the given information. The blank should be 17 because 8+9=17. The four fact family sentences they can create are: 8+9=17, 9+8=17, 17-9=8 and 17-8=9. We are reviewing many of the math facts that we have learned to date: comparing numbers, patterns, adding and subtracting, how many in all, money, place value, comparing numbers, time, and shapes (& following directions).

Part 4 (Minute Math): Minute Math is a daily activity. It is not due until Friday.

2/18 Comprehension & Place Value

Part 1 (Daily Reading Homework): your child needs to read at least 20 minutes every night. Below, please record what they read, how long they read for and then initial it. Thanks!

Part 2 (Reading Comprehension): Please read the piece entitled Keeping Our World Clean and then use explicit and implicit information to answer the six questions that go with it.

Part 3 (Place Value): please review your child’s math work with him or her.

Part 4 (Minute Math): Minute Math is a daily activity. It is not due until Friday.

2/12/09

Are you ready for the Spelling Test tomorrow?

2/11/09 Place Value & Comprehension

Part 1 (Daily Reading Homework): your child needs to read at least 20 minutes every night. Below, please record what they read, how long they read for and then initial it. Thanks!

Part 2 (Reading Comprehension): Please read the piece entitled Is It a Bear or Not? and then use explicit and implicit information to answer the six questions that go with it.


Part 3 (Place Value): please review your child’s math work with him or her.


Part 4 (Minute Math): Minute Math is a daily activity. It is not due until Friday.

Part 1 (Daily Reading Homework): your child needs to read at least 20 minutes every night. Below, please record what they read, how long they read for and then initial it. Thanks!
What was read? Time spent reading parent’s initials

Part 2 (Comparing & Ordering Numbers): We are starting our unit on comparing numbers. Please play the comparing game with your child.

Part 3 (Math): Drops in the Bucket Math: we are reviewing many of the math facts that we have learned to date: comparing numbers, patterns, adding and subtracting, how many in all, money, place value, comparing numbers, time, and shapes (& following directions).


Part 4 (Minute Math): Minute Math is a daily activity. It is not due until Friday.

2/3/08 Verbs & Fractions

Part 1 (Daily Reading Homework): your child needs to read at least 20 minutes every night. Please record what they read, how long they read for and then initial it

Part 2 (Subject-Verb Agreement): As you’ve seen with the Daily Language Reviews that we do each week, the kids have been studying how to properly form sentences. Tonight’s homework is simple: the students are to choose the correct form of the verb that will match the noun (subject/verb agreement).

Part 3 (Fractions): Please go over math mat 10-2 with your student. Do they understand the difference between equal parts and unequal parts? Can they independently tell you that 1/4 can be referred to as “1 out of 4,” “one-fourth,” or “one quarter”? Do they understand that 1/1, 2/2, 3/3, etc, all mean 1 whole and are thus all equal? Can they tell you how much of this cake here was eaten? All in all, how is your child doing with fractions?

Part 4 (Minute Math): Minute Math is a daily activity. It is not due until Friday.

Part 1 (Daily Reading Homework): your child needs to read at least 20 minutes every night. Below, please record what they read, how long they read for and then initial it. Thanks!

Part 2 (Fractions): We are starting our unit on fractions. Please go over math mat 10-1 with your child and check their understanding of what we studied today.

Part 3 (Math): Drops in the Bucket Math: we are reviewing many of the math facts that we have learned to date: comparing numbers, patterns, adding and subtracting, how many in all, money, place value, comparing numbers, time, and shapes (& following directions).


Part 4 (Minute Math): Minute Math is a daily activity. It is not due until Friday.