3B’s Classroom Newsletter,

January 25, 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 we read the story The Extra Good Sunday.   We worked on using a thesaurs.  The skills we focused on were understanding characters, forming the past tense, and words with er, ir, ur, and or.  Next week we will be reviewing for the Unit 3 Skills test and taking that. Please review the vocabulary words with your child.  The skills we will be testing on are: characters, story structure, sequence, author’s purpose, main idea/details, infer/predict, graphic sources, fact/opinion, drawing conclusions, and cause/effect.  These skills can be reviewed on 1XL in the Language Arts sections. It is a good review of these skills.

Writing

With the snow day, we have been making up other subject work, so we haven’t done much writing.  We will still be working on our cloud books next week.

Social Science

We have finished up this chapter 7 with the exception of our cloud books.  We have started our last science chapter-Forces and Motion.

Math

We have started Chapter 6 on division.  Please keep practicing the multiplication facts with your child even if they are done with the timed tests.  I have several students that still have a ways to go before they are done with timed tests.

Miscellaneous

We finally had our read and feed.  Please read stories for Lesson 11, 12, 13, 14, and 15 and return with a note on Tuesday that your child has read those stories to you.  I will give them money for returning the book and reading the stories to you.

Spelling Words

No spelling words for the week due to Unit test.

Snacks

Mon-Grady, Wed.-Noah,  Fri.-Bryan