Mrs.Alvarado’s Class News Friday, Jan.13th
Dear Parents,
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a wonderful break from school! I really enjoyed relaxing with family and sleeping in! I wanted to thank the class for the very generous gift card I received in December. I love the Loft! I had so much fun shopping the sales in January!
We are off to a great start! This week has been really busy. I gave part 2 of the checkpoint tests. These tests are like pretests for the 2nd half of the year. The class actually did pretty well on the tests considering they were over material that has not been taught. These tests should give me a good idea of what areas I need to teach really well before CRCT. Take a look at what we are working on:
Reading- We started a book called The Egypt Game .The book is a Newberry award winning book. The book is a mystery with school aged kids as the main characters. It is really well written. If your child is enjoying the book there is a sequel to this book called The Gypsy Game. The author’s name is Zilpha Keatley Snyder. Next week’s lessons will focus on comprehension, summarizing, and cause and effect.
Independent Reading Project- This is mystery month in my class! I assigned a mystery packet this week for the month of January. We got books from the library and reviewed the tasks in the assignment. This is a large assignment and the class only has 3 weeks to complete the work so get started early!
Grammar- We are working on an adjective unit.
Math- We are working on a Geometry unit which is Chapter 13 in the book. I will be encouraging students to bring home their math journals to help with homework. There is a lot of vocabulary in this unit.
Social Studies- In Chapter 5, we learned about the New England Region of the colonies. In Chapter 6, we are learning about the Middle and Southern Colonies.
Writer’s Workshop- We started working on our hero essay. When we have finished the essay we will be starting a unit on the trait of “Word Choice”.
Enjoy the nice long weekend! Mrs.Alvarado
