Looking Ahead

As we work through these recent challenges, there are several ways that you, as parents, can help us out! First of all, we would like to continue to strongly encourage you to drop-off as close to the 8:45 time as possible. For after school, students need to be picked up before 3:15 pm at the very latest so we can minimize the congregating of parents and students on the school property.

If you are feeling uncomfortable with having your child at school or your child is feeling ill, and you are keeping your child home please let the office and myself know so that we can plan accordingly. In this blog post, you will find activities that you can do with your child at home that are based on the activities happening at school.

The Bible memory verse for May is already posted.
There will not be a new spelling list this week. Students can still practice spelling list R5 as I am extending it until next week. Spelling City has some fun games and is ready to go.
Reading: Please encourage your child to read at home every day while they are away. They should be reading for a minimum of 20 minutes each day.
XtraMath and Typing Club should be practiced weekly and you will find them on the intermediate page.

Language Arts

We are currently doing a novel study on “No Talking” by Andrew Clements and below you will find the read aloud for the last few chapters.

Chapter 17

Chapter 18 & 19

Chapter 20

Math

Multiplication and division are things that students can continue working on at home. Students should be able to do up to 3 digit x 1 digit multiplication and should be able to do 2 digit divided by 1 digit division. If you are looking for questions that you can use with your child, you can use https://www.mathfactcafe.com/Worksheet/BuildIt to help you come up with problems. The image below shows our technique for division.

division teaching strategies and anchor charts for upper elementary math
In the example above, I would typically ask something along the lines of “7 times what gets you close to 3 without going over?” (0). “7 times 0 equals what?” (0). Then, go through the subtract. “Are we done? No. We bring down the 5. 7 times what gets you close to 35?” (5) “7 times 5 equals what?” And so on….