Week of October 28th

Homework

Monday-Multiplication lattice Sheet, study multiplication facts 0-6. Read 30 minutes and then do your writing assignment.

Tuesday- Multiplication lattice Sheet, study multiplication facts 0-6. Read 30 minutes and then do your writing assignment and

 Work on sunshine math as it is due on Friday of this week.

Wednesday- Multiplication Practice Sheet, study multiplication Facts and read thirty minutes. Work on sunshine math as it is due on Friday. Read Science pages 203-207.  Bring in your instrument by tomorrow.

Thursday- Math homework and know how to do lattice by tomorrow.

Tests

Monday-none

Tuesday-0-6 times table test

Wednesday- Multiplication Test on 3 digits by 2 or 3 digits. Any strategy you chose: lattice, generic rectangle, and standard algorithm/ Writing Test

Thursday-Science Test on sound/Reading Test

Friday –Weekly Skills Test (multiplication, division, addition and subtraction.)

     

                  Updates and announcements for this week

      This week begins the second nine weeks.    The third and final progress report will go home after all grades have been averaged for the first nine weeks.  Scholarship warnings have been sent out also.  Scholarship warning means your child’s grade is below average or your child‘s behavior needs to be discussed with the teacher. 

    November 25 and 26 is the date our first field trip.  Permission slips have been sent   out .  A good way to make memories with your child is to go on a field trip with them.  Your child will only be this age once in their lives. In about a year and a half from now your child will be in middle school.  Most middle school and high school children don’t go on as many field trips as elementary children.  

If you are going to be chaperone you must go through a background check by Duval county Public Schools.  Please note the small writing on the bottom of the permission slips for more detail. Chaperones are not to bring younger sibling on field trips as this is defeating the purpose of your going to help out the teacher with the children. 

        Your child has several math logins for various websites: www.ixl.com.  https://www.learni-ready.com,  www.pearsonsuccessnet.com  accelerated reader and  their computer logins.  Cool math 4 kids also have a multiplication game called crazy taxi that would be fun and beneficial for the children to practice their multiplication facts on.   

        In order to show a gain on math F.C.A.T. your child must know their multiplication facts.  We have to do so many strategies in math that involve math facts being memorized: multiplication, division, fractions being simplified and making equivalent fractions, and finding the rule in algebraic equations. Some of the children have the multiplication facts memorized.  Your child is at a disadvantage if they don’t know these facts.  Please spend ten minutes a day on these facts. The Dollar Tree has flash cards for one dollar. Once these facts have been memorized your child can enjoy this investment for the rest of their lives. 

            All of the children should have read at least seven books by now.  The children that read for at least an hour a day usually score at the 90% on any standardized test.  Please encourage your child to read.