Life Skill: Courage
Quote: You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
--Eleanor Roosevelt
--Eleanor Roosevelt
Captain's Table of "STAR" Students
(STAR = Stop, Think, Act Responsibly)
Student Life Skill
1st Grade Math Ria Effort
2nd Grade LA Emma Resourcefulness
2nd Grade Math Kali Initiative
2nd Grade Math Kali Initiative
3rd Grade LA Tony Responsibility
3rd Grade Math Dakota Curiosity
4th Grade LA Michael Responsibility3rd Grade Math Dakota Curiosity
4th Grade Math Jacob Courage
This Week In HA...
1st Grade LA
Second grade students completed a vocabulary map for the word, "journey". Afterwards, we began reading chapter 1 of our novel, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane and learned that Edward Tulane is a rabbit made mostly of china with an elegant wardrobe. He was given to a 10-year-old girl named Abilene by her grandmother, Pellagrina. Abilene and her family live on Egypt Street. Each day, Abilene dresses Edward and places him in a chair with his pocket watch in his lap facing out the window looking onto Egypt Street. This is where Edward spends the day waiting for Abilene to return from school. Edward is a very arrogant, self-centered rabbit, who enjoys looking out at the stars through Abilene's window at night. Ask your child to retell you what we have read so far. Then, ask your child to predict what he/she thinks will happen next. Before continuing our reading, we used our dictionary skills to look up key vocabulary words from the upcoming chapters. Ask your child to look up the following words to continue to work on using a dictionary: indignity, jovially, and zeal. Your child should also be independently reading Chapter 2 of our novel this weekend.
3rd Grade LA
In third grade this week, the students created a flap book to organize the definitions for the different types of genre we will be covering this year. So far, we have covered the myth and legend and entered information regarding these 2 genres in our flap book. Afterwards, we began learning about nouns and defined a noun as a person, place, thing or idea. To work on identifying nouns in sentences, we read an excerpt from one of our myths. As we read the passage, we used different colors to identify each type of noun present in the passage. The types of nouns we identified were as follows:
- Nouns that name people
- Nouns that name places
- Nouns that name things
- Nouns that name ideas
Ask your child to identify nouns in a short newspaper article and specify the type of noun identified.
This week, fourth grade students created a vocabulary map for the word, "biography". Ask your child to explain how we created this map. Afterwards, the students reviewed the parts of speech and discussed the subject and predicate parts of sentences. Then, the students diagrammed some funny sentences. Ask your child to diagram the following sentence:
The word, biography, contains Greek and Latin word roots.
and tell you the part of speech that describes each of the words.
The biography project to be completed by the 4th grade students was also explained this week. Here are the steps and requirements involved:
- Choose a person to research using a full-length biography.
- Identify sources, which must include one primary source and 2 or more secondary sources.
- Read the full-length biography and other sources and collect information using the biography summary and supporting documents. Create a works cited page to acknowledge your sources.
- Create a list of 10 of the most significant events in this person's life.
- Create a legible and neat timeline to include:
- 2 or more pictures,
- 10 or more of the most significant events from this person's life with dates measured at the appropriate intervals, which must cover the person's entire life, and
- 4 sources cited.
- Write a monologue to include:
- Events in the person's life with detail and clarity,
- Insight to changes in the person's life, and
- Exploration of the differences made by this person,
- Create a power point slide that includes a photo of the person with his/her name, years lived and major contributions.
- Present the monologue to your class dressed as this person, which involves:
- Good eye contact, posture and voice,
- Engagement of the audience,
- Utilization of appropriate words, facial expressions and gestures, and
- Utilization of an appropriate costume and props.
Building Vocabulary
The "Words of the Day" for this week were clement and languid. Ask your child to define these words for you and use them in a sentence.
1st Grade Math
This week, first grade students continued to work on identifying the coins and their values along with figuring out the total amount of a group of coins. Provide your child with a handful of change and ask him/her to identify each coin and its value. Afterwards, have your child calculate the total amount of all of the coins.
In second grade, the students continued to work on subtraction with regrouping. This has been a difficult skill for the students to comprehend but we have all worked very hard this week to practice this skill. Therefore, ask your child to complete the following problems as continued practice:
823 912 742
-259 -694 -525
3rd Grade Math
In third grade this week, the students continued working on mastering the multiplication facts to 12. Therefore, we took another timed multiplication test this week. Ask your child if he/she has mastered the X 3 multiplication facts. Afterwards, we colored and cut out the pieces for our Multiplication Sweets timed tests, which are needed to keep track of the levels as we accomplish each one.
Fourth grade students began working on the next unit titled, "How Much Change Will I Get?" In this unit the students learned how to make change and figure out the easiest way to make change for specified costs. Ask your child to complete the following math problem involving these concepts:
Virgil bought a guitar that cost $900 with his coin collection. In his collection he had 1000 1/2 dollars, 1000 quarters, 1000 dimes, 1000 nickels, and 1000 pennies. How much change will Virgil get?
Melissa Valtierra
High Ability Aide
Bailly Elementary School
