West Elementary School
Weekly Update
Kindergarten
For the week ahead we anticipate that students will...
Week Ending 6/7/19
In reading students will understand that:
- Growing readers hold onto their
thoughts by coding their post-its to
help them remember their thinking
- Growing readers think about a
character’s feelings in a story by
selecting “just right words.”
- Growing readers reflect on their
reading practices by setting personal
goals
In writing students will understand that:
- Growing writers remember all the
words they want to write by utilizing
pictures they draw
- Growing writers plan the writing of
sentences by saying the sentence in
their mind before they write it,
writing word after word
- Growing writers write a little and
then read a little by flipping back and
forth between being a writer and a
reader of a story
In math students will:
- Model teen numbers with materials
from abstract to concrete
- Draw teen numbers from abstract to
pictorial
- Build a Rekenrek to 20
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First Grade
For the week ahead we anticipate that students will...
Week of 6/7/19
In reading students will understand that:
- utilize reading strategies that will
enable them to become more fluent,
confident, responsive readers who
decode and self-monitor in the
service of comprehension.
- utilize self-monitoring reading
strategies are constantly questioning
if the text looks and sounds right.
- focus on read-to-self stamina
In writing students will understand that:
- write with detail, including showing
a character’s small actions, dialogue,
and internal thinking.
- recount two or more appropriately
sequenced events including details
regarding what happened, using
temporal words to signal event
order.
- work on stamina - write for longer
stretches of time with more depth in
their writing.
In math students will:
- Solve compare with difference
unknown problem types
- Use the place value chart to record and
name tens and ones within a two-digit
number up to 100
- Identify pennies, nickels, and dimes by
their image, name, or value.
Decompose the values of nickels and
dimes using pennies and nickels.
Other notes or information:
● Multicultural Day is Friday, June 7 - please plan to be at West School no later than 9:30am. We hope you are as
excited as we are!
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Second Grade
For the week ahead we anticipate that students will...
Week Ending 6/7/19
In reading students will understand that:
- combine may double vowel
syllables with other syllable types.
- introduce the vowel teams: ou
and ow.
- Readers will distinguish the
difference between fables,
folktales and fairy tales by
examining various texts for genre
specific components.
In writing students will understand that:
- make their opinion stronger by
including a couple of reasons to
support their thinking .
- generate ideas for reviews by
thinking about things they
like/dislike doing. This can be a
toy, hobby, sports team, games,
music, etc.
- develop a thesis/opinion
statement by stating their opinion
clearly.
In math students will:
- Use different strategies to make
$1 or make change from $1.
- Solve word problems involving
different ways to make change
from $1.
- connect measurement with
physical units by using iteration
with an inch tile to measure.
Other notes:
● Mrs. Goldenberg’s class has swimming on Monday .
● Health Fair is this Thursday, May 23rd.
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Third Grade
For the week ahead we anticipate that students will...
Week Ending 6/7/19
In reading students will understand that:
- deep discussions about books by
utilizing thinking prompts.
- engage in a partnership
discussion by analyzing the
behaviors of effective book
clubs.
- engage in a whole group
discussion with shared text by
practicing the behaviors of
effective book clubs.
- discuss the roles of book club
members by defining the book
club roles.
In writing students will understand that:
- understand that there are many
purposes for writing by discussing
the genre of opinion writing.
- create opinion pieces by having a
specific purpose and audience in
mind.
- understand that opinions can be
written in different formats by
presenting opinions in the form of
a review.
- understand that opinions can be
written in different formats by
presenting opinions in the form of
a letter.
In math students will:
- solve a variety of word problems
with perimeter.
- solve a variety of word problems
involving area and perimeter
using all four operations.
- share and critique peer
strategies for problem solving
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Fourth Grade
For the week ahead we anticipate that students will...
Week of 6/7/19
In reading students will understand that:
- Readers develop their
schema of the time period
by extending their
learning through
research.
- Activities: guided reading, read
aloud, shared reading,
independent reading
In writing students will understand that:
- I can develop an effective
introduction.
- Activities: independent and
guided writing
In math students will:
- Create conversion tables for length, weight and capacity units
using measurement tools, and use the tables to solve
problems.
- Activities: cooperative learning groups and independent practice
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Fifth Grade
For the week ahead we anticipate that students will...
Week Ending 6/7/19
In reading students will understand that:
- Continue to develop reading
stamina by reading more each
day.
- Research topic of choice to find
supporting evidence for their
research question.
In writing students will understand that:
- Continue to research other topics
with which to create new
argumentative essay.
- Begin taking notes and
paraphrasing information by
restating it in words that make
sense to them .
In math students will:
- Create a rule to generate a
number pattern, and plot the
points.
- Construct parallel line segments
on a rectangular grid.
Other notes or information:
6/5/19 Fifth Grade Trip to Camp Coleman
6/7/19 Multicultural Day
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