9-19-11
Dear Parents:
Wow! We packed a lot of learning into last week! We read our Social Studies textbook, summarized facts about each region in Georgia and wrote paragraphs about each region. We are using these summaries to create our “Georgia Books”. These books will be coming home periodically for you to read with your child in preparation for Social Studies Summative Assessments.
Starting this week, your child will be taking a Spelling Dictation Test every Friday. I will choose 5 out of the 10 Spelling words that your child has worked with all week. The rubric for this assessment is attached.
Your child must have his/her A.R. book at school every day. The expectation is that your child is reading an A.R. book at home every night AND reading an A.R. book in class every day.
What Are We Working on THIS Week?
Math-
We will be investigating relationships of time such as seconds in a minute, minutes in an hour, and hours in a day. You can help your child with time concepts by having him/her predict how long a daily activity will take (brushing teeth, taking a shower, etc…) and then time the event and discuss predictions vs. actual elapsed time.
Language Arts-
We will be investigating short and long vowel i sounds and using correct punctuation and capitalization in our writing.
Social Studies-
We will be describing the regions in Georgia where the Creeks and Cherokees lived and how the people used their local resources.
Writing-
We will continue to summarize information about the regions of Georgia. We are concentrating on making sure that our paragraphs are indented and our sentences are capitalized and punctuated.
