3B’s Classroom Newsletter,

October 12, 2018

West Lyon email address   kdewandel@wlwildcats.org

msdewandelsclass.blogspot.com/

Math and Reading book website-www.thinkcentral.com and the old website was www.eduplace.com (both great resources and practice)

Xtra Math-www.xtramath.com

SumDog-www.sumdog.com

www.iowaaeaonline.org username 6983wlel, password nwaea (bookmark and save and you won’t need to put it in again.)

1XL.com (kids know their passwords)

www.prodigygame.com/play  (kids know their passwords)

Reading

This week reviewed and took our Unit 1 reading test.  Up until this time, I’ve been reading the weekly reading tests to your child.  After this, your child will read them to themselves. We will also start challenge spelling. We will have pretests on Monday.  Full explanation is on the weekly home letter.

Please speak with your child and see how they are doing on their required reading counts points.  Everyone must have 15 points in their reading range, which they have a card with that range on it.

Writing

We are practicing for the Grandparents’ Program.  I have quite a few that have not let me know who is coming.  I need to know so we can write our introductions. If you have a child that doesn’t have anyone coming, let me know now, so I can find them an honorary  grandparent for the program.

Social Science

We tested on Chapter 1.  We just started on Chapter 2, Living Things Grow and Change.  We will also be doing some practice for the grandparent program during Science time.

Math

We are finished Chapter 1 and reviewed several days.  This is by far the hardest chapter we have but it is using skills that we will be using all year--rounding and regrouping to add and subtract.  So, if your child didn’t do well, we will be still working on it through out the year. It is very obvious several students just don’t know their basic math facts and that makes it even harder.  Our next chapter is representing and interpreting data-graphs.

Miscellaneous

You should be getting notified soon if you are on the Halloween party planning.  If you are on the schedule and don’t get notified soon, please let me know. Grandparents’ Program is Friday, October 19, 1:15 PM.   I still need to hear from many of you who is coming. Please send a note or email me so we can write introductions. October 26 is early dismissal.  

Spelling Words

Math, toast, easy, socks, Friday, stuff, paid, cheese, June, elbow, program, shiny, piles, sticky, each, both

Challenge-comb, holiday

Snacks

Mon-Mara, Wed.-Grady,  Fri-Noah