Homework: The math packet and reading log are due
on this Friday.
Due to the snow day Monday night’s homework is optional. Please return it in
your Yellow Reading Log/Math Homework Folder. Continue to work on the writing
homework. Remember it is due March 4th. Please make sure
you sign your
child’s reading log.
Reminders:
We
will celebrate Valentine’s Day on Friday, February 12th.
Please have a
candy free Valentine
card for each classmate. You
may also send a snack for your child to enjoy at our celebration. The students
in our class include: Yakub, Hannah, Max,
Stella, Chris, Declan, Ryan E., Ryan F., Aidan, Michelle, Owen, Natalie, Ellie
H., Samantha, Colin, Kelly, Kaitlyn, Victoria, Zak, Shruti, Jack and Ellie S.
Basket Raffle for the Fun Fair: Help our class build a wonderful arts&craft basket to raffle. Please bring send in any supplies for our basket.
Supplies: Our
classroom community is in need of
tissues, erasers (block kind), glue sticks and dry erase markers.
Thanks!
Language Arts and Social Studies: We will continue to read about leaders
and talk about what makes a good citizen. Students will be working with the
long vowel e spelled ea. We will be editing our opinion pieces.
Mathematics: This week we will be focusing on mental addition
strategies. Then
we will review what a difference is and begin to some mental subtraction
strategies.
KidBlog:
To get on your
child’s kidblog go to the website at https://kidblog.org/class/mrs-porters-class8/posts
Scroll
to your child’s name and click it. Then enter the password. This is your
child’s first and last initials lowercase followed by your child’s student
number (your child knows his/her number) and sss If
your child has a single digit student number put a zero in front of the number.
For example, if Jane Doe was
number 5 it would look like this jd05sss Let
me know if you need any support getting on it. The students who have gone on
are enjoying posting and
commenting on their peers’ blogs. Your child might like reading and
writing on their blog over the break. I have to approve the posts and will
check at least once a week or more to approve posts and comments. Encourage
your child to use capitals and end punctuation in their work.
Ways you can help at home: Help make sure your child is getting started with their
writing homework. Model adding numbers in your head and talk about what you
did. Then have your child try it.
Get your child to talk about his or her day. Here is a website that
might be able to help if your child doesn’t want to say much. Check it out for ideas. http://www.simplesimonandco.com/2014/08/25-ways-ask-kids-school-today-without-asking-school-today.html/
Play
games with your child over the break, read books together, Have a safe, relaxing week!
