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Snapshot for April 23
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Next week, students will “race” through Nonfiction Amazing Race themed stations. We will review skills such as finding the main idea and supporting details of a text, author’s purpose, text features, and using context clues. These stations will allow students to practice these skills with STAAR formatted questions and “Minute-to-Win” styled activities. Please see the optional practice links below and on portaportal.com.
This week students will review prepositions and prepositional phrases. On Wednesday, students will complete the Flocabulary and Education Galaxy prepositions activity for a grade, however, students can access this activity early as a practice.
Please see the attached letter regarding the optional Reading At Home Technology Challenge! that we have started in ELAR! As we prepare for our STAAR reading test, let’s see who can log the most time spent practicing reading skills at home! There will be prizes for the top technology times logged. Every Monday, students will have the opportunity to fill in a class chart to celebrate their accumulated practice time. The competition ends on May 7, 2017.
Please see the attached letter regarding the optional STAAR Prep Incentive Program that we have started in ELAR! Thank you to everyone who is taking the time to complete these optional activities. Please see the classroom blog for easy access to these resources. These are great ways to help practice skills and get ready for the STAAR, which is just right around the corner.
For homework, we will have our 100 minutes of at home reading assignment due on Monday, April 30. We will have a TFK quiz on Friday, April 27 over “The Problem with Plastics”. Click here for the digital copy and the real magazine will be coming home Monday. The Spelling assignment and Friday quiz this week is also over the “Common Closed Syllables”.
Reminders:
April 23 – Students need a sack lunch for our field trip to the GISD planetarium. A copy of the field trip form is attached. Please make sure your student turns this in tomorrow if they have not already.
April 27 – TFK and Spelling due, PRIDE Party!
May 14 – STAAR MATH
May 15- STAAR READING
Helpful Links:
Online Resources for Skills Practice: All of our links can be found at our new PortAPortal account and on the classroom blog.
Guest code: kimberlin3rd
· STAAR Prep Incentive Program – See PortaPortal
o ReadWorks: Passwords are the same student password that they use for every other program. If your student had to have their password reset, I reset the password to 1234. If you have any problems, please email me or text me through Remind. J
§ Class Code of Fendley’s Homeroom: 76PTWC
§ Class Code of Osborn’s Homeroom: 4H2VX5
§ The username will be your student’s first names & last name initial followed by an underscore (_) and the word “fendley”.
§ Example: Lily Moldenhauer = lilym_fendley
§ Password: 1234
§ If your student goes by a shortened version of their given name, the username will reflect that. Rebecca White = beccaw_fendley
Reading Resources:
· Flocabulary: Use student username and password – Context Clues, Main Ideas, Text Features, and Synonyms and Antonyms
· Education Galaxy “Study Plan- Reading” Topics – Context Clues, Main Ideas, Text Features, and Synonyms and Antonyms
· Brain Pop: See Snapshot for login – Main Idea and Context Clues
· Brain Pop Jr. : See Snapshot for login – Main Idea and Synonyms and Antonyms
Grammar Resources:
· Flocabulary: Use student username and password – Prepositions
· Education Galaxy “Study Plan- Writing” Topics – Prepositions
· Brain Pop: See Snapshot for login – Prepositions
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