This Week in Room 8 (1/16 to 1/19)

ELA:
This week we will be working on the following skills:

• Identifying the correct pronoun to use in a given sentence
• Finding the evidence (answer) by going back in the text
• Restating the question in the answer
• Completing our writing for our non-fiction animal book- WOOHOO!
• Using context clues to determine meaning of an unknown word

I was ahead of the game last week with our Greek/Latin roots. We are going to continue to look at            -fect, fact-, and -fy (to make, build, cause )this week.

Your child has a link on his/her iPad called Read Theory. Read Theory is a great way for your child to practice reading a passage and answering specific questions for the passage. We will begin to utilize Read Theory at least twice a week at school. When we read, we work on going back in the text when we are answering the questions. Our goal for reading comprehension is at least 75%. I also like this resource because it is adaptive based on how well/poor your child does on the quiz. If you are working on this at home with your child, encourage him/her to read out loud to you (every few quizzes) and to go back in the text to find the answer. If your child gets stuck, you can suggest going back and "try rereading the second paragraph" to help your child pinpoint where the answer may be in the text. Please let me know if you have questions. 

Your child can also utilize Reading A-Z for reading and comprehension. I know in the past that students enjoyed recording and listening to themselves read. Please encourage this at home. 

Word Wall Words:

• us
• by
• those
• use
• fast

We accidentally added us/use last week. Oops!

Science:

We are continuing our unit on Light. 

MATH:

This week we will continue to reinforce the following skills:

• Comparing numbers to 120 and beyond (up to 1 million!) using <, =, and >
• Determining the value and the digit for a given number in place value (For Example, 465 What is the value of the underlined number? 60 What digit is in the hundred's place? 4)
• Reading and writing number words (five hundreds, three tens, four thousands, and seven ones = 4,537)
• Determining the value of the missing number in an equation (__ - 6 = 14 or 7 = 12 - __)

Khan Academy Mappers!!!!

This is an amazing resource based on your child's Winter Math MAP results. Khan Academy Mappers is a link that provides a specific plan for your child to practice based on the RIT scores for each component in the math assessment (Counting and Cardinality, Numbers in Base Ten, Geometry, and Operations in Algebraic Thinking). This will be a resource that we will use at school twice a week during math rotations. Please feel free to have your child work on this math website at home!