October 4, 2024: No School for Students (Teacher Work Day)
What are we learning?
Language Arts
We have completed the beginning-of-the-year assessments. These include the Diagnostic Spelling, iReady, Passage Reading Fluency, and CORE Phonics assessments. Using the data from these assessments, the students are being given support based on the skills that they need to master.
We are in Unit 1 of our language arts skills. The students are reading different texts about nature to accomplish those skills. They will be assessed on the following skills at the end of Unit 1:
Identifying Key Details and Determining a Main Idea
Comparing and Contrasting Narrative Points of View
Summarizing a Text
Integrating Information from Multiple Texts to Demonstrate Knowledge
Explaining the Meaning of Similes and Metaphors
Writing an Explanatory Essay
Identifying Prepositional Phrases
Recognizing and Correcting Inappropriate Fragments
Ordering Adjectives Within Sentences
Math
The students have completed their iReady math assessments to check their understanding of different math concepts.
We have completed our unit on Data. This unit includes skills such as analyzing line graphs and determining probability.
Currently, the students are learning about adding, subtracting, and estimating up to the ten-thousands place value.
Social Studies
We have completed our units on Being an Ethical and Global Citizen, Primary and Secondary Sources, and Virginia’s Geography. The students have completed activities and assessments for each unit.
We are currently in the final unit of the first quarter, Indigenous Peoples of Virginia, and will begin the first Health unit shortly afterwards.
Questions to ask your child at home
How are ____ and ____ similar? How are they different?
Can you give me a summary of your day at school?
What place value is the ___ in for this number? (while shopping, getting gas, etc.)
