Hello Families,
I hope everyone had a great weekend! We are back to a regular routine this week. Mrs. Brooks and I have decided to share our literacy and homeroom e-mails so you get 1 less e-mail per week. She will send a seprate e-mail for math. 🙂 Here are a few announcements for the week: Volunteer as Class Captain We need one parent to volunteer as our Brooks/Hyde Class Captain. These volunteer hours can be done mostly from home and help us accomplish the fun things like class parties, fundraisers, donations for class, and other activities throughout the year. Email me or Mrs. Brooks if you are interested in the position! Imagine Learning and I-ready: We are required by the state to have each student to do 45 minutes a week of these programs. Starting this week we will be adding these minutes as part of their grade to ensure Friday Online Questions: Please don't hesitate to reach out about grades for online friday work. We are noticing holes in their assignments where they are doing a couple things, but not at all. Literacy Unit 1 Week 3 This week the essential question is: How can a pet be an important friend? Genre Focus: fiction Comprehension Strategy: Good readers ask and answer questions about the text while they read. Comprehension Skills: Characters, Setting and Events Phonics: 2 letter blends Vocabulary Strategy: context clues Homeroom This week we are continuing our Habitat unit with Oceans and Rain Forests. The students are able to participate in Fun Friday on digital Fridays as long as they finish their Math independent practice and get their 45 minutes in i-ready finished. This is a reward at the end of the week! We might be adding other literacy requirements as the years goes on. Hello Parents,
I hope your child has adjusted to being back in school! We had a very busy week learning classroom procedures, safety precautions around the building and getting to know all the friends in class. Some fun activities were learning how to shop for new books, doing art projects and taking a benchmark test to show me how much they know coming into 2nd grade. We will compare this test to the same one they take at the end of the year to see how much growth they had! Sorry for the lengthy e-mail. I have quite a bit to go over. 🙂 A little housekeeping: I know Thursday's back to school night was quite different than what WPA normally does. If you haven't had a chance to see my recorded video and you have a spare 20 minutes, please watch and let me know if you have any questions. https://share.nearpod.com/vsph/IsVuwLJpNu One of the most important things I would like you to take away from the video is how much Friday online school impacts coming to class on Monday. I use Friday's to prep them for the next week since our time in the classroom is cut short. I had many confused faces today when I talked about the work they were supposed to do. I recorded a full video of the Friday expectations and posted it on the stream for them to watch first, but many did not watch it. On the stream I asked a question and asked them to comment below so I could make sure they followed directions and only a few answered it. For those that did everything I made sure to praise them today. 🙂 This morning in class I did a full walk through again of what was expected and reminded them how important it is to read all of the instructions, so I am hoping that this Friday goes a lot more smoothly. I told them they could earn extra credit points and earn ALL assignment points by following directions carefully. I know it's a learning curve for everyone and please know I am happy to help. Since I am part time; I am available by e-mail to help with Friday questions until 11:30 am. I will try my best to answer e-mails after that as well, but you may not hear back until Monday. Now for this week: A new reading log was sent home today. Please have your child do their best at answering the comprehension questions. This is worth 10 points. (2 points every night of reading and filling it out) REMINDER: These are sent home on Mondays and due the next Monday! You'll also see a list of their spelling words come home. They can use this paper to study for their spelling test on Thursday. They made a "cootie catcher" in class today that they can use to study for the vocab test too. 🙂 We started Unit 1 Week 1 in the reading curriculum. This week they are learning note taking while learning about the comprehension skills and strategies, vocabulary, and genre. They are learning that good readers know how to go back into the text to find answers. We will also practice logging into imagine learning and get access to raz-kids. Please do not have them do imagine learning or Raz at home until I say "all clear". They must take an assessment on it first. (That does not count for 100% online learners.) **** Next week starts DIBELS testing. Please make sure your child gets good rest and a good breakfast**** Thanks for all your support! As always, please reach out with any questions and please let me know if one parent doesn't want to be on the weekly e-mail list. Hello!
You've found Mrs. Hyde's class website for the upcoming 2020-2021 school year! I look forward to meeting all of my new students and families in August. Feel free to take a look around! Don't worry about posts below! That is last year's class information. :) In case you don't see the updates on the Class Dojo app, I wanted to show off some of the fun things we've been doing in class! Last week we learned about folktales using drama and play. They each had parts and practiced reading with intonation and expression. It was DARLING!! The day before Valentine's we had a class pizza party to celebrate 2,500 positive behavior points! YAHOO!! You can definitely see the excitement on all of their faces. :) **Conferences are coming up next week! You can click this link to sign up.https://www.signupgenius.com/go/5080b48a9a92caaf49-wednesday1 Mrs. Brooks and I will be doing conferences on Wednesday March 4th only, but can make accommodations if needed for another day. I will also be reaching out to you separately if you haven't signed up yet and I feel we need to go over things. Week 26 Objectives: Unit 4 Week 5: Essential Question: How do you enjoy nature? Genre: poetry Comprehension Strategy: visualizing Comprehension Skill: Theme Grammar: contractions Phonics Goal: air & are words Vocabulary Strategy: similes Vocabulary Words: excite, pale, outdoors, drops, alliteration, repetition, free verse and simile. Hello!! It's a normal week in literacy!
**It is Post Office Week. You can write letters to your child and buy candy grams that will be delivered throughout the week. **Conferences are coming up in March. I believe a sign up will be sent out soon! In past years, Spring conferences have been optional. If you would like to check on your child's data, or have any questions or concerns please sign up. Mrs. Brooks and I will be doing conferences on Wednesday March 4th only, but can make accommodations if needed for another day. Week 24 Objectives: Unit 4 Week 3: Essential Question: How are kids around the world different? Genre: realistic fiction Comprehension Strategy: visualizing Comprehension Skill: compare and contrast Grammar: irregular verbs (go, tell, see, do say) and book title practice Phonics Goal: or, ore, oar, ar sounds Vocabulary Strategy: similes Vocabulary Words: common, customs, favorite, parades, surrounded, costume, travels and wonder. Hello Families,
What a snow day!! I had 12/26 students come to class this morning. Because of the late start, literacy was 45 minutes long. I was able to introduce the new spelling and vocabulary words. I will have the absent students make that up first thing tomorrow morning to catch up. Stay safe out there today. Please remember that READING LOGS ARE DUE ON MONDAYS!! Below are the new objectives for the week: Week 23 Objectives: Unit 4 Week 2: Essential Question: How does the Earth change? Genre: expository text Comprehension Strategy: rereading Comprehension Skill: cause and effect Grammar: helping verbs Phonics Goal: r- controlled vowels (er, r, ur, or) Vocabulary Strategy: context clues Vocabulary Words: earth, island, active, explode, local, solid, properties, steep Hello! We are starting a brand new unit this week. The big idea this time is:
How do different environments make the world an interesting place? There are new spelling words and a reading log going home today. Week 22 Objectives: Unit 4 Week 1: Essential Question: What makes different parts of the world different? Genre: Non-Fiction/ Informational/ expository (Students should know all 3 mean the same) Comprehension Strategy: rereading Comprehension Skill: comparing and contrasting Grammar: linking verbs Phonics Goal: silent sounds in words (gn, kn, mb) Vocabulary Strategy: compound words Vocabulary Words: location, region, temperate, lively, eerie, seasons, growth and layers. Hello!
I hope everyone enjoyed the long weekend. Last week the students did really well on their DIBELS tests. There are 8 students who haven't been tested yet! This week will be a bit different. We will not be starting a new unit because we have a literacy mid-year benchmark to take this week. It is similar to the weekly comprehension tests they take on Fridays. They will not receive spelling words and I am not requiring a reading log this week either. Please encourage your child to do their best on their testing each morning. THANK YOU!! Hello!! Welcome to third term. I locked grades this morning and set up 3rd term's gradebook. I had a lot of students not turn in their DIBELS practice reading log from last week. :( PLEASE GET THOSE TURNED IN THIS WEEK! The practice will be so good for them before they take the real test this week.
BOOK ORDERS due on FRIDAY! Week 20 Objectives: Unit 3 Week 5: Essential Question: How do you express yourself? Genre: Non-Fiction/ Informational/ expository (Students should know all 3 mean the same) Comprehension Strategy: Asking and Answering Questions Comprehension Skill: Main Idea and Key Details Grammar: combining and rearranging sentences Phonics Goal: long u sounds in words (u_e, ew, ue, u) Vocabulary Strategy: prefixes Vocabulary Words: instrument, music, rhythm, movement, concert, sounds, understand and cheered. Happy New Year!! I hope everyone had a wonderful two break. I know I did! I am looking forward to this year and ready to get back to the classroom.
Last day for late work is WEDNESDAY! Due this week: Students should be turning in a green reading log towards their grade and the holiday break reading challenge for a prize. Both were handed out before the break. Next week starts DIBELS testing. We have been working diligently in the classroom on reading fluency, accuracy and retell. Now would be a good time to focus on that at home too. We will be jumping right into a new unit described below: Week 19 Objectives: Unit 3 Week 4: WILD WEATHER Essential Question: How does water affect us? Genre: Non-Fiction/ Informational/ expository (Students should know all 3 mean the same) Comprehension Strategy: Asking and Answering Questions Comprehension Skill: Main Idea and Key Details Grammar: The verbs have, has, had. Phonics Goal: long e sounds in words (ee, ey, ea, ie, y) Vocabulary Strategy: antonyms Vocabulary Words: damage, dangerous, destroy, event, harsh, prevent, warning, weather. |
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