Hello Parents,
Please see what we did this week.
| SUBJECT | DESCRIPTION | PARENT TIP |
| MATH | Spent quite a lot of time reviewing Unit 1 for an assessment on Tuesday 18th October. Students will take text book home to review. | Review with child using pages 56-62. Do only two questions per section. Do a few questions from the test practice pages :64-65 |
| READING | Identifying fact and fiction in a text. Reading for fluency and the use of metacognition strategies for comprehension. (Metacognition involves getting the reader to actively think while reading. Questions to ask are What are you thinking…., What are you noticing… , wondering, seeing, and feeling.) | After reading with your child ask them some questions like,
What are you thinking, noticing, wondering, seeing and feeling. |
| GRAMMAR | Correcting run-on sentences (Wrong: Have you ridden on a train it is fun. Correct: Have you ridden on a train? It is fun.)
Writing good sentences by using a comma and using the word and (wrong: Gardening teaches science it is a great hobby too. Correct: Gardening teaches science, and it is a great hobby too. |
The worksheet would help with this. You can just look over. |
| SCIENCE | Carried out an experiment using the scientific process: question, hypothesis, apparatus and materials, method, observation and conclusion.
Defining the terms producer, consumer, herbivore, carnivore, omnivore and giving example for each. |
Ask child to list the steps in the scientific process.
Help child generate questions about wat they would like to find out about and ask them to come up with a hypothesis. |
| SOCIAL STUDIES | We worked on building a traditional Caymanian house. Students worked in groups of three or four. | Ask what materials were a traditional Caymanian house made from. How many rooms were there?(3) |
| BIBLE | Misses due to work on Social Studies project. Will make up next week. | |
| ART | Missed due to Field Trip. |