Reflex Math Update
Class Dojo
We have decided to go back to using Class Dojo. If you are not familiar with Class Dojo you can find the website here. We love Class Dojo because it allows parents to keep tabs on their child's behavior on a real-time basis. Parent/Student codes will come home on Wednesday. These codes will allow you to access your child's dojo. You will be able to see the points they earn/lose, and you can follow through at home as necessary. We have made one change this year; we have only one positive, and one negative. We felt that it was too confusing last year when we had multiple positives and negatives. When we award/subtract points, we will be very specific with your child about what they are for. This week, our goal is to reach at least 10 positives each day. Any student that earns 10 or more will be rewarded. Next week, we will move to a week-long goal of 50. Any student that earns 50 or more over the week will be rewarded.
September 8-11
- phonics assessment for lessons 6-10
- phonics: punctuation
- phonics: q, z, c, k, i
- phonics: spelling with ck
- comprehension: continuing to study character point of view in Trouble at the Sandbox (objectives - understand that characters in stories have unique points of view)
- writing: continuing our narrative that incorporates character interaction and sequencing (objectives - understand how to write a narrative scene, participate in a shared writing task, write about a point of view, write a narrative describing actions, thoughts, and feelings, capitalize proper nouns, use signal words (first, next, last, etc) to indicate story sequence)
- blue class will start Power Hour this week - your student may be going to another teacher during this time based upon their reading needs. This year, I will work with the students that need more phonics practice with vowel patterns. Mrs. Webb will work with students that need beginning phonics instruction. Mrs. Anderson will work with students that need to read faster and more accurately. Mrs. Montgomery will work with students that read well, but struggle with comprehension. Mrs. Losee will work with students that are already good all-around readers, and she will challenge them to continue growing in their reading skills.
- red class is still gearing up for Power Hour. At this point, they are still struggling with working quietly and independently; two skills that are essential for me to be able to teach small groups when there are 26 kids in the room. Hopefully, they will be ready by next week.
Friday is a half-day of school to allow for teacher professional development classes.
Dismissal is at 12:00.
Dismissal is at 12:00.
August 31 - September 4
- DIBELS and STAR testing - this will be our beginning of the year baseline testing
- phonics: letter group #2 - h, j, l, m, e
- phonics: common words #2 - he, was, for, on, are, as, with, his, they, I
- phonics: letter group #3 - n, p, r, s, o
- phonics: common words #3 - at, be, this, have, from, or, one, had, by, word
- phonics: letter group #4 - t, v, w, x, y, u
- phonics: nouns, verbs, and adjectives
- reading: continue to practice read-to-self routine
- reading: begin working on read-to-someone routine
- reading comprehension: begin reading Trouble at the Sandbox
- reading comprehension focus: readers will understand that characters in stories have unique points of view
- writing: write a narrative with character interaction and a clear sequence of events
- writing focus: writers will understand that signal words tell the sequence of events in a story.
Tuesday is picture day.
We had our first phonics test last week. Everything on the test was review from first grade. Students did well for the most part. The blue class already brought the graded tests home. The red class will bring them home on Monday.
We have had to shuffle our lunch times around. The fifth grade was not getting any down time at lunch due to long lines. Unfortunately, this means that blue class will now go to lunch at 10:40, and red class will go at 10:42. This makes our lunch about a half-hour earlier than it was before. CANCEL THAT - WE HAVE COME UP WITH ANOTHER SOLUTION FOR NOW. LUNCH TIME WILL STILL BE 11:17.
August 24-28
- phonics: a, b, d, f, & g
- phonics: common word list #1: the, of, and, a, to, in, is, you, that, it
- phonics: building CVC words
- phonics: building and decoding nonsense words
- phonics: capitalization (names, I, first letter in a sentence)
- think, pair, share routine
- whole group discussion routine
- read-aloud routine
- benchmark vocabulary routine
- Daily 5: read-to-self routine (building stamina) - working on being able to read independently for 20 minutes
- basic noun-verb sentence structure
- thinking maps: multi-flow, circle, and bridge
First Day
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