Important Dates:
8/16 – Spirit Day – Students may wear sprit shirts
8/28 – Open House @6pm
8/30 – Pizza Day – Students may wear spirit shirts
9/4 – Labor Day – No school
9/6 – Picture Day – Order forms will go out soon
Blog Abbreviations:
HIG – Singapore math Home Instructor Guide
TB – Singapore math textbook
WB – Singapore math workbook
HW – Handwriting copybook
IEW – Institute for Excellence in Writing
USE – The Usborne Science Encyclopedia
CPT – The Complete Periodic Table
Welcome to the second week of school. Oh, how we enjoyed getting to know your children last week. We hope you are settling into a routine and getting familiar with the curriculum. As always, please feel free to email with any questions you may have. Effective communication will help make this year successful. Emails that are sent on Monday or Wednesday will be answered before 9am on the following day. All other emails will generally be answered within a 24 hour period.
Math:
We will begin bar modeling this week. Bar modeling videos and resources can be found here:
Grammar:
In grammar this year, we will discuss synonyms and antonyms, as well as go over vocabulary laid out in Shurley English in class. The students will not be tested on this, however, as we will focus heavily on the IEW vocabulary.
Composition:
Oral re-tell of KWO can be done with parents, siblings, animals, friends, grandparents, stuffed animals, etc. We introduce lesson 2 vocabulary words this week (there weren’t any for Lesson 1). Students will be quizzed periodically on vocab words. All quizzes will be cumulative. Be sure to review these at home.
Reading:
Students will begin written narrations in class this week and will continue to do so in the classroom through October, when we will transition to doing them at home. All in-class narrations can be found in the “reading” section of your child’s campus binder and can be used as a reference. We will use a different format for grading narrations than in years past. Coming soon to the “reading” section of the campus binder: “A Parent’s Guide to Grading Narrations” sheet.
Memory:
Please spend time during your school day to work on our school wide scripture, quarter 1 poem, geography map & song, history timeline song, and Atoms & Molecules poem. Feel free to get creative and practice these in the car, at bedtime, or during meals.
Science Fun:
There are almost 7,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 atoms that make up the average human body (that's a 7 followed by 27 zeros)! Another way of saying this is “seven billion billion billion”. 98% of these are replaced every year.
Joke: Why are chemists perfect for solving problems?
Because they have all the solutions.