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
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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.