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You may have noticed math papers coming home with a letter of the alphabet on them. It's a program that we are using at school called rocket math. It's primary focus is on fact fluency. If the students can answer 40 addition problems in a minute then they get to move on to the next letter. It starts off easy with +0 and +1, but then each letter gets harder. Once you get through "Z" then it's onto subtraction. The hope is that the kids will start to make the connection and use addition to help them with subtraction. A good way to know if your child needs practice with fact fluency is whether or not they still have to use their fingers or a number line to add or subtract. The goal is to be 100% fluent in both addition and subtraction facts by the end of the year. Mobymax and IXL are probably the 2 best websites to work on fact fluency. I would look for a good app for your phone or ipad. If you would like any papers to work on fluency at home, please let me know. Making flashcards is still a great method too.
Language Arts
This week we explored another kind of
neighborhood—the classroom! We considered the question “What clues tell you where and
when a story takes place?” We began with
Teacher’s Pets, a realistic fiction story about
Miss Fry’s classroom. It’s a lively place for
students and animals alike! Then we saw Westburg by Bus! as we read an informational
text about this interesting community.
Target Vocabulary: share, noticed,
suddenly, bursting, noises, wonderful,
quiet, sprinkled
Phonics Skills: Consonant blends with
r, l, and s, including triple blends (burst,
trunks, split)
Vocabulary Strategy: Base words and
endings -ed, -ing
Comprehension Skill: Story structure—
tell the setting, character, and plot in a
story
Comprehension Strategy: Visualize—
picture what is happening as you read
Lesson 9
Objective: Measure lengths of string using measurement tools, and use
tape diagrams to represent and compare lengths.
Lesson 10
Objective: Apply conceptual understanding of measurement by solving
two-step word problems.
Problem 1
Mr. Peterson decorated with 15 meters of ribbon in the morning. He decorated with 8 more meters in the
afternoon than in the morning. How many meters of ribbon did Mr. Peterson use to decorate in the morning
and afternoon in all?
Problem 2
The red colored pencil is 17 centimeters long. The green colored pencil is
9 centimeters shorter than the red colored pencil. What is the total
length of both pencils?
Coming Up Next......Module 3: Place Value, Counting, and Comparison of Numbers to 1,000
