Reading for Important Concepts/Ideas in Fiction Books

We have been working hard to find important concepts in the books we are reading.

Here is the update for this week:

Room 5 Parent Website
Our Room Parent, Ms. Krantz, has created an excellent website. It is linked on the right side of this page as 'Our Room Parent's Page'. The site has additional information about Room 5, Room 5 Families, our school, and the parent foundation. Check it out.

Homework Journals
Thanks for helping your students with those homework journals. Last Monday I put a note, written in green ballpoint pen, in every student's journal. I should be able to do this most every week, but their may be some weeks when I cannot. Overall it looked like the writing students were doing in those journals was great. Thank you so much for your help with that--I could see it in their writing.

I have also been reviewing the math homework, it looks good as well.

Every Monday
This section is just repeated from last week: Monday is a day you need to help your students prepare for. This is what you need to remember:
- Home writing journals are due.
- Wear athletic shoes--we have P.E. on Mondays.
- If you need replacement books for your velcro book pouch, this the best day to exchange them. If your are still working on those books that's fine to.
- If you have a book from the TPES school library this may also be a good day to return those. (Most students do not have one just yet)

Curriculum Overview

Literacy - Reading for important ideas or concepts.

Math - Mental computation with addition and subtraction. Understanding how easy math facts can be used to figure out more difficult ones. For example, if you know 14 - 10 = 4 you can also easily see that 14 - 9 will equal 5.

Writing - Writing about the ideas we find in fiction books.

Language Conventions and Word Study - Making sure we understand periods, question marks, and exclamation points.

Science - Materials of the earth: pebbles, rocks and silt.