- This week (and next) parent teacher conferences will take place. If you arrive early to your conference, please take the green NYC schools survey, fill it out, and seal it. You can return this to me, and I will submit all sealed envelopes to the office to be mailed. PS 11 is shooting for a 100% participation rate, and your help with this is very much appreciated. If we have already met, I will send this home with your child.
- Next Friday March 11th is Family Friday- Our theme is poetry.
- On Wednesday March 9th there is a Curriculum Connection from 8:45-9:30 about the state exam.
- Our March Newsletter was emailed to all families yesterday. Please reach out to me if you did not receive it.
HOMEWORK
Word Study
Humble: Sort 9
Determined: Sort 33
Ambitious: Sort 32
Monday: Read and jot for 30 minutes, write words in word study notebook, math group HW
Tuesday: Read and jot for 30 minutes, pick a word study menu options, math group HW
Wednesday: Read and jot for 30 minutes, word study practice page (goes with sort in purple book), math group homework
Thursday: Read and jot for 30 minutes, glue words in purple workbook, study for spelling test
Friday: Reading response, math group HW
CURRICULUM
Reading- We are wrapping up our two week mini unit on mystery book clubs. This week we are piecing together evidence and clues to solve the mystery, and considering suspect motivations. Towards the end of the week we will think about lessons learned.
Writing- This week we are also wrapping up a two week poetry writing unit. After generating possible topics for poems we are spending the next days revising using a range of strategies to add depth to our work, such as weaving in figurative language, and considering white space and line breaks. Students will look through poems and search for a theme that could be highlighted in a poetry anthology.
Math- Students are learning about unit fractions and are using toolkits to compare, rank, and order fractions.
Social Studies: By the end of this week we are launching Literature Around the World- Folk Tales. Students will read a wide variety of Folk Tales and visit centers to consider how tales continue to teach us about the culture, economy, land, and history of a country.
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