~Mrs. Parziale’s Classy News~
September 15-19, 2014
Writing
Most of the kids need to finish their Fall
Writing Prompt on Monday. Some friends
also need to finalize their Writers Notebooks.
We will spend the rest of the week focusing
on Personal Narratives to include identifying
the parts that make up a personal narrative,
coming up with “Stepping Stones” to use for a
story, and dissecting personal narrative
examples. By Friday the kids should begin
their Rough Draft.
Math
Your child should have received a letter in his
or her agenda on Friday with their new Math
teachers name  We will begin switching on
Tuesday……..Mondays will be spent with our
homeroom Math kids.
On Monday, we will divide the kids into groups
to practice place value; some on computers,
whiteboards, and teacher led groups, etc.
On Tuesday, the kids will switch for the first
time. My Math class will have an entrance ticket
to help guide instruction for the rest of the week.
We will also work on a Math About Me page in
our notebooks. The rest of the week will be a
review of Place Value with a possible assessment
on Friday.
Please make sure your child is practicing his or
her multiplication facts daily!
Reading/Language Arts
The kids will focus on 2 different reading
strategies this week: Check for Understanding
and Back Up and Reread. Each of these minilessons will have a follow up due by Friday. They
will also continue to read for at least 30 minutes in
class while practicing their strategies.
Shared Reading this week we are focusing on
dialogue and homophones….the kids will add
their Shared Reading piece into that section of
their notebook- great resource to practice fluency.
Science/Social Studies
We have been working through the
Interactive Notebook for Virginia’s
Geography. We will continue working
through the notebook this week and read a
few different Virginia Weekly papers as a
partnership. I am planning a summative
assessment for this unit around the 25th or
26th, I will let you know.
We will complete a Penny Experiment this
week as well and review the steps to the
Scientific Method.
Wordly Wise
Spelling
We will start Wordly Wise on Monday.
The Wordly Wise Spelling Test will directly
The kids will make flashcards for each Unit
correlate with the Wordly Wise Units….we will
that can/should go home for practice. We will start the first unit on September 15th which means
also complete Lessons A and B this week.
the first spelling test will be on September 26th.
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The Summative will be on September 26 .
The students can bring their WW Workbooks
Please make sure your child knows how to home over the week/weekend but they must be
use the words in context as well as the
returned to school daily.
definitions.
Notes, Updates, and Reminders
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September 19 - Talk like a Pirate Day at Arcola
September 22nd- Camp Flintlock slips due!
September 25th- Possible Social Studies Test-will let you know
September 26th- Volunteer/Parent Training from 9-10am
September 26th- Wordly Wise 1 Test and Spelling Test
September 30th- Camp Flintlock
Thank you for sharing your child with me this year!!!!