Mrs. Long's Blog

Spelling- Unit 25

Sitton- Lesson 25     face,  door,  cut,  done,  group

Math- Fractions and Decimals

Writing-  "The Snowy Day"

English- Adjectives

Parents,

     Thank you for the Valentine candy and cards!  I have thoroughly enjoyed it all!

Our trip to the Youth Museum was great!  Every student was able to dress in costume and play a part.  It is always one of our favorite trips!  It's just a wonderful learning experience for all!

Big Shanty was chosen as a school to give the CRCT Field Test for special education students.  We had our first subtest today which was Reading.  English/Language Arts will be given on Monday 2/23 and Math will be on Tuesday, 2/24.  Please make sure students eat breakfast and have a good night's rest. Thank you for your support!

         

Spelling-  Unit 17,   Sitton-Unit 17             

Word of the Week (W.O.W.)-  scalp   (Ask your child to show you where their scalp is!)

English- Prefixes and suffixes, definitions and usage

Writing-  Writing process ( narratives), stretching thoughts into good 4^th grade sentences

Reading- Language

Reading

                  We’re learning how f a t becomes  f a s t,  f l a t, and  f a c t  etc.

                   Review of singular and plural nouns

                   Fluency checks with sounds, words, and phrases

Math-  Geometry:  review of angles and triangles

                                   Slides, Turns, and Flips

                                   Plane figures- quadrilaterals, parallelograms, rhombus, trapezoid

    Parents,

     I trust you had a wonderful holiday break.  We are working full force so that we can get as many skills in as possible before our testing at the end of April.

    The students are enjoying Geometry.  It provides somewhat of a break from the rigors of long division and double-digit multiplication.  We will be revisiting those skills soon, however.  We will be doing two-digit divisors with division.  Take a few minutes at night to give one or two long multiplication or division problems and see if your child can do the steps.  We continue with our timed tests in fact mastery.  Most students are on the division now and doing well!  I will be phasing out the ability to use the chart as a “crutch”.  They’ve got to learn the facts or have some working knowledge of how to find them out!

     Our Language Reading Program is moving along.  I’m finding the students also learn from good literature.  I’m incorporating other books in to the lessons as well.  As always, AR is being pushed.  Most are doing very well with their AR tests!  They also enjoy reading aloud to me.  Please make time at night for some reading aloud.  It really helps with comprehension, fluency, and vocabulary development.

     Thank you to Mrs. Ramos for the hand sanitizer, soap, and wipes!  We use them daily and, so far, no sickness!  Thank you, too, to Mrs. Slaven for the holiday treats!

    I look forward to seeing you at the end of the month conferences.  I will be sharing the Progress Report on goals and objectives, the report card, and other informal data I’ve been collecting.  Plus, it’s always just nice to see you again and talk!   Your child’s homeroom teacher will be setting up the meetings. 

I wish everyone a restful and fun holiday break.  Try to keep your child reading a little each day. When we return in January, we will be back in our routine.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!  HAPPY NEW YEAR 2009!

Spelling- Unit 16

W.O.W.- ballot

English- Prefixes:  mis- ,  dis-, un-, re-

Math- Geometry:  identifying and naming lines, line segments, rays, angles, parallel, perpendicular, plane, point, vertex

Reading- Language! Reading Program:  Fluency with one syllable short vowel words, Casey at the Bat (AR test), review of sentence/fragments, diagramming.

Spelling Unit 15

Word of the Week- archer

English-  Verbs

              Persuading Santa letters taken through the writing process

Math- Geometry:  Vocabulary:  line, line segment, ray, parallel, intersecting, perpendicular, vertex, point, endpoint

Just a reminder that if it is 40 degrees or below, we are not allowed to take the children outside for recess.  In that case, we do offer free time activities inside. 

REVIEW WEEK for Spelling and Vocabulary

Spelling-  Unit 12- Review unit for words in Units 1-11

The spelling this week is on yellow paper, in the blue folders, and is due on Friday.

Word of the Week- orthodontist

The vocabulary packet on Words of the Week #1-10 is due Friday.

English- Verbs (action, helping, linking, and past, present, future tenses)

Reading- Singular and plural nouns,  sounds of s  /s/ and /z/.

              Stellaluna- comprehension, story mapping, oral reading, AR tests

Math- Division

Be sure to check the blue folders nightly.  Sometimes homework isn't being done and/or put back in the blue folder.  Make it your CHILD'S responsibility to do it, let you check it, and get it back for class the next day.  Long division is coming!

Unit 11/Sitton 11

Please note that next week is a review unit over a mixture of words taught this year and there will NOT be the usual packet in the blue folders.  There is still a pretest on Monday and an assessment on Friday.

WOW- #11 gnaw

In English, we continue to study verbs.  We have covered action, helping, and linking verbs.  Has your child learned our song?  It must be sung to Mrs. Long to get credit as an English grade.

Reading-  Language! Reading Program:  fluency, vocabulary, BATS! (Nonfiction selection)

              Stellaluna (Fiction selection) Skills include: vocabulary, answer wh-type questions,      story mapping, reality/fantasy, finding facts, oral reading practice, summarizing.

Math- Introduction to division

        Remediation of two and three-digits x two-digit multiplication.

Writing-  Drug free paragraphs and characters

Verbs

As we begin our study of VERBS, please help your child learn this song:

Helping Verb Song

(to the tune of “Jingle Bells”)

Helping verbs, helping verbs,

We must learn these verbs,

Am, is, are, was, and were, being, be, and been,

Have, has, had, do, does, did,

Shall, will, should, and would.

There are five more helping verbs,

May, might, must, can, could.

Spelling- Lesson 7

Word of the Week- leprechaun

Math- Multiplication facts, multiplying with 2-digits x 1 without regrouping, reading graphs

English- Nouns, Daily Oral Language sentences

Writing- 5+ sentence paragraphs with topic sentence and details  and using the writing process

REMINDER:  Math night is Tuesday night!  Come join in the fun!

                                                                                                                  

Parents, a reminder to be looking for your Notification of Meeting letters around the annual IEP review time for your child.  Please sign this form and return it to school in the blue folder.  I'll confirm with you by e-mail, phone call, or by sending you a copy of the notification.