West Elementary School

Weekly Update
 

Kindergarten

For the week ahead we anticipate that students will...

Week Ending 3/13/20

In reading students will understand that:

• Growing readers interact with informational texts to get a deeper understanding of the information being presented.
• Growing readers continue to interact with informational texts to get a deeper understanding of the information being presented.
• Growing readers ask questions of their texts to clarify their thinking.

In writing students will understand that:

• Growing writers continue to use questions to drive their research.
• Growing writers generate potential topics for an "All About" book by using their background knowledge.
• Growing writers think about certain criteria when choosing their topic from an "All About" book.

In math students will:

• Model decompositions of 6 using a story situation, objects, and number bonds.
• Model decompositions of 7 using a story situation, sets, and number bonds.
• Model decompositions of 8 using a story situation, arrays, and number bonds.

Other notes or information:

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First Grade

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For the week ahead we anticipate that students will...

Week of 3/13/20

In reading students will:

• learn, read and write consonant blends and digraph blends.
• focus on R-controlled vowel sounds: ar, or, er, ir, ur
• think deeply about a text by asking and answering questions after reading.

In writing students will:

• determine what a fact is by identifying what is true and certain.
• discuss what an opinion is by recognizing that it's the way you think or feel about something.
• write their opinion on various topics using OREO graphic organizers.

In math students will:

• compare the efficiency of counting by ones and counting by 10's.
• use the place value chart to record and name tens and ones within a two-digit number.
• interpret two-digit numbers as either tens and some ones or as all ones.
  
  

Other notes or information:

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Second Grade

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For the week ahead we anticipate that students will...

Week Ending 01/31/20

In reading students will:

• review the long vowel sounds of
  vowel-consonant-e.
• notice text features of an
  informational text.
• read on-level books in their
  guided reading sessions.

In writing students will:

• Understand that the foundation of
  an interesting realistic fiction
  starts with a believable problem.
• Use descriptive words when
  revising their beginning of their
  realistic fiction piece.
• write across pages to make sure
  their story makes sense.

In math students will:

• use a place value chart to
  represent hundreds, tens and
  ones when subtracting.
• use math drawings to represent
  subtraction with and without
  decomposition and relate
  drawings to a written method.
• complete sprints to build fluency.

Upcoming Events:
January 30 - Bedtime and Books
January 27-31 - Showing HEART for Puerto Rico and Australia
(see flyer for details)

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Third Grade

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For the week ahead we anticipate that students will...

Week Ending 1/24/20

In reading students will:

• Build engagement, curiosity, and
  wonder about a surprise topic by
  analyzing pictures and text.
• Write the main idea by
  extrapolating key details from a
  text and illustrations.

In writing students will:

• Collect more information about
  their topic by sketching, adding
  labels, captions and timelines in
  their notebook.

In math students will:

• IMultiply by multiples of 10 using
  the place value chart.
• Use place value strategies and
  the associative property to
  multiply by multiples of 10.

Other notes:
No school - January 20th MLK Day

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Fourth Grade

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For the week ahead we anticipate that students will...

Week of 3/6/20

In reading, students will be able to say:

• I can read, annotate and answer
  multiple choice questions using
  strategies taught.
• I can underline the important
  language of a multiple choice
  question to recognize what the
  question is asking to help
  determine the correct answer.
• Activities: guided reading, read
  aloud, shared reading,
  independent reading

In writing, students will be able to say:

• I can write a response to a
  text by restating the question,
  answering it and give details
  to support an answer.
• I can use an organizer to write
  a multi-paragraph essay
  incorporating a thesis
  statement and topic
  sentences, using an organizer..
• Activities: independent and
  guided writing

In math, students will be able to say:

• I can decompose fractions as a sum of unit fractions using tape
  diagrams.
• I can decompose unit fractions using area models to show
  equivalence.
• Activities: cooperative learning groups and independent practice

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Fifth Grade

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For the week ahead we anticipate that students will...

Week Ending 3/6/20

In reading students will:

• Readers craft short version of
  text by summarizing complex
  nonfiction texts.
• How is the work we do as
  researchers of our to[ics (and of
  our world) similar to and
  different from the reading work
  we do in books?

In writing students will:

• Writers credit their sources by
  using parentheses or transition
  words.
• Writers give voice to
  informational writing by
  commenting on details and facts.
• Writers connect ideas by
  carefully choosing words that
  help one idea flow into another.

In math students will:

• Relate a fraction of a set to the
  repeated addition interpretation
  of fraction multiplication.
• Find a fraction of a
  measurement, and solve word
  problems.
• Compare and evaluate
  expressions with parentheses.

Please note:

3/2/20- Elementary Read Across America Day/ West PARP Kickoff
3/6/20-West Spirit Day and book swap
3/6/20-West Supermarket Bonanza 7pm

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