Your children continue to work on reading an analog clock (with hands). Most of the students can read the hands to the hour (4:00, 12:00, etc.), but many are still having difficulties with reading a clock when the hands show a half hour (4:30, 12:30, etc.). Please practice these half hour times at home as we will be reading clocks to the quarter hour next (4:15, 4:45, etc.).
A wrist watch with hands is a great holiday gift!
Please also review coin names and values with your children:
penny - 1 cent
nickel- 5 cents
dime- 10 cents
quarter- 25 cents
half dollar- 50 cents
dollar coin- 100 cents
Counting coins on a regular basis will help your student at school.
Can your child count by 5s?
Can your child count by 10s? (0, 10, 20, 30, 40...) or (0, 15, 25, 35, 45...)
Can your child count by 25s? (0, 25, 50, 75, 100)!
Your children are finally drafting their endings for their personal narrative writing pieces. We are entering the revising/editing stages. We have been focusing on correcting our ending punctuation marks...the period (.), the question mark (?), and the exclamation point (!). The children have been working with a writing partner. Partners assist each other with this process.
We have also worked on correcting "run on" sentences (I went to the closet
and I grabbed my coat
and then I ran to the door
and I went outside...).
