West Elementary School
Weekly Update
Kindergarten
For the week ahead we anticipate that students will...
Week Ending 11/16/18
In reading students will understand that:
- Growing readers read unfamiliar words in pattern books by using picture clues to read the unfamiliar word
- Growing readers will notice patterns in the story by thinking about how the story goes
- Growing readers match the words they say to the words on the page by listening to how a story sounds
In writing students will understand that:
- Growing writers will generate ideas for their own pattern books by creating a class list of topics
- Growing writers will turn and talk to partners and share possible topics
- Growing writers will select a pattern by using the generated class list of patterns
In math students will:
- Find and describe flat triangles, squares, rectangles, hexagons, and circles using informal language without naming
- Explain decisions about classifications of triangles into categories using variants and non-examples
- Explain decisions about classifications of rectangles into categories using variants and non-examples
Other notes or information:
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First Grade
For the week ahead we anticipate that students will...
Week Ending 10/5/18
In reading students will understand that:
- continue to practice the routines and responsibilities of Reading Workshop.
- learn how to share books through Partner Reading
- recognize what makes for a great reading partner
- learn how to Talk About Books with our partners
In writing students will understand that:
- Continue to practice the rules and routines of Writing Workshop
- Create a Map of Our Heart representing things we love to write about
- Introduce “Writer’s Tool Box”
- Growing Writer’s write a sentence with an uppercase letter, spaces between words, and a punctuation mark
In math students will:
- count on from one number or part to totals of 7, 8, 9 and 10
- represent all the number pairs of 10 as number bonds
- solve math stories by drawing, writing equations, and making statements
Other notes or information:
โ Remember to WRaP!
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Second Grade
For the week ahead we anticipate that students will...
Week Ending 11/2/18
In reading students will understand that:
- identify the attributes of a realistic fiction story.
- notice what characters look like by identifying external traits.
- sound out the different ways we pronounce the suffix /ed/.
In writing students will understand that:
- continue writing across pages for their personal narrative.
- edit for spelling and appropriate punctuation.
- create an interesting ending.
In math students will:
- count from $10 to $1,000 on a place value chart and a number line.
- explore how many $10 bills are needed to count up to $1,000.
- use $1, $10 and $100 bills to count on.
Other notes or information:
Storybook parade on October 31st at 2:30.
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Third Grade
For the week ahead we anticipate that students will...
Week Ending 11/16/18
In reading students will understand that:
- get ready to read a text by asking themselves, “What do I already know about this topic?” and “What do I wonder?” and “What did I learn?” (KWL)
- determine how a text is organized/written by identifying various text structures.
In writing students will understand that:
- determine if a topic or idea from their interest list will work for their writing by generating more ideas about the topic using a web, and listing questions that they want to learn about the topic. (Students may or may not find the answers to all of their questions while conducting research)
- narrow the focus of their writing
by considering their main idea(s) and purpose.
In math students will:
- study commutativity to find known facts of 6, 7, 8, and 9.
- apply the distributive and commutative properties to relate multiplication facts 5 × n + n to 6
× n and n × 6 where n is the size of the unit
Other notes or information:
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Fourth Grade
For the week ahead we anticipate that students will...
Week Ending 11/2/18
In reading students will understand that:
- Readers develop a theory about
their characters by rereading and
collecting evidence to support their
ideas.
- Readers understand that characters
may be complicated by noticing
how they can be one way in one
setting or relationship and another
way in a different context
- Activities: guided reading, read
aloud, shared reading, independent
reading
In writing students will understand that:
- Incorporate an ending that wraps up their
story and wows the reader.
- Use a checklist to self reflect and correct
where needed
- Activities: independent and guided
writing
In math students will:
- Demonstrate understanding of area and
perimeter formulas by solving multi-step
real world problems
- Interpret and represent patterns when
multiplying by 10, 100, and 1,000 in arrays a
numerically.
- Activities: cooperative learning groups
and independent practice
Other notes or information:
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Fifth Grade
For the week ahead we anticipate that students will...
Week Ending 10/5/18
In reading students will understand that:
- Continue to develop reading stamina by reading more each day.
- Build comprehension by digging deeper and thinking beyond the literary text
- Add new layers of understanding about a text by having meaningful discussions with others about reading.
In writing students will understand that:
- Recognize the theme of their personal narrative by identifying the message they want the reader to walk away with.
- Improve their writing by using purposeful dialogue.
- Recognize pacing in their narrative by selecting an action and adding details.
In math students will:
- Use exponents to denote powers of 10 with application to metric conversions.
- Compare decimal fractions to the thousandths using like units, and express comparisons.Use exponents to denote powers of 10 with application to metric conversions.
- Name decimal fractions in expanded, unit, and word forms by applying place value reasoning.
Other notes or information:
โ West PTA Meeting 7pm, Wednesday, October 3, 2018
โ West SPIRIT Day, Friday, October 5, 2018
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