Breslin’s Weekly Update
February 27- March 3
Learning Targets/Topics
Word Study/Spelling:
~ I can spell high frequency words (HFW) correctly in
written work.
~ I can use and define words that have prefixes.
Reading:
~ I can tell the main idea and supporting detail of nonfiction and texts.
~ I can identify and explain the importance of text features in informational texts.
~ I can tell the type of informational text structure a book is written with. (description, cause and effect, sequence and order, problem/solution, compare and contrast)
Writing:
~ I can write a realistic fiction story.
~ I can write an ending to my story that helps the reader have closure with the story.
~ I can punctuate dialogue in my story correctly.
~ I can use proper punctuation and capitalization in my story.
~ I can give and receive peer feedback for my story.
Math:
~ I can remember the product of square numbers. (2x2, 3x3)
~ I can use the distributive property and smaller facts to find the product of larger facts Ex: 3 x 6 = (2x6) + (1x6)
~ I can multiply 3 factors using the associative property.
Ex: 3 x 2 x 4
~ I can solve basic multiplication facts quickly.
Science/S.S.
~ I can discuss how communities change over time.
~ I can identify forms of energy and explain how they either create a change or cause motion
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Important Dates:
3/2: Class pictures and Spring Pictures
3/2: Family Read In 2:00-3:00
3/3: First Round of Parent Teacher Conferences
3/4: Lions Club Pancake Breakfast
3/6 Pennies for Patient Kick-Off Assembly (2:45)
3/7: Second Round of Conferences and Book Swap
3/10: No School for Students - PD Day
Lunch Menu
Class Pictures/Spring Pictures March 2nd
Class pictures are $12 each and the payment must be enclosed and given to the photographer. On the other side of the flyer sent home is the Spring picture form which needs filled out and returned that day also but NO money is required for these at this time. You will receive a portrait package to review and purchase later.
Family Read In
On March 2nd, come in from 2:00-3:00 to read with your child in the cafeteria. Students who have someone come in to read with them will be retrieved from their room to go to the cafeteria to read with their family member. Please contact Mr. Miller if you have any questions about this.
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937-663-4449 ext 4319
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Related Arts Rotation
Week of: Mon Tues Wed Thurs Fri
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Multiplication
Students should start practicing multiplication flash cards and memorizing their facts. They need to have quick strategies to solve their basic facts such as skip counting, repeated addition, using other facts they know, etc. They should be moving away from needing to draw pictures or arrays. Check out our blog at mrsbreslin.blogspot.com for videos and songs.
Since they are starting fresh this year, if they study and try to memorize them, they should be able to know many or most by the end of the year, preparing them for a lifetime of math fluency. Students who focus on knowing their facts within three seconds and practice nightly will learn them. Students brought home a Strategies for Learning Your Basic Facts for Multiplication page that shows the progression of the facts we will learn. They also have multiplication flashcards. Multiplication fact fluency is a crucial skill and learning it now will save them from struggling later, especially as we learn division!
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