Hi parents,
By now you should have received our first math packet of classroom work; it was in last week's Thursday envelope.
A word about pacing: For the first half of this module, we will be going more slowly. I will be doing a reteach after each lesson. We've found that giving students a good grounding in place value makes the rest of the year go more smoothly.
If you'd like to see our class notes, including the problem sets that we've been doing in class, check out the math page in your child's Google Classroom account. (They should be able to show you how to log on, and we'll go over it as well on Back to School night. If you'd like your child's password in the meantime, feel free to send me a note or an email, and I'll make sure you can log on.) The math page has a PDF of each day's lesson, so you can see what we've been doing.
In the math packet, you probably also saw a few exit tickets. Those are given at the end of each new lesson, to assess how well students understood the new material. As a general rule, the first few lessons are difficult for students, so don't worry too much if they struggled. As I said, we're doing reteach after every lesson.
Each exit ticket has a colored dot at the top. Green means they completely understood the lesson; yellow means they partially understood it; and red means they need more work to understand it. These scores don't end up on their report card; they're just a snapshot of how well students understood the day's lesson. It helps me to decide on what, if anything, to reteach -- and to which students.
Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks for reading!
By now you should have received our first math packet of classroom work; it was in last week's Thursday envelope.
A word about pacing: For the first half of this module, we will be going more slowly. I will be doing a reteach after each lesson. We've found that giving students a good grounding in place value makes the rest of the year go more smoothly.
If you'd like to see our class notes, including the problem sets that we've been doing in class, check out the math page in your child's Google Classroom account. (They should be able to show you how to log on, and we'll go over it as well on Back to School night. If you'd like your child's password in the meantime, feel free to send me a note or an email, and I'll make sure you can log on.) The math page has a PDF of each day's lesson, so you can see what we've been doing.
In the math packet, you probably also saw a few exit tickets. Those are given at the end of each new lesson, to assess how well students understood the new material. As a general rule, the first few lessons are difficult for students, so don't worry too much if they struggled. As I said, we're doing reteach after every lesson.
Each exit ticket has a colored dot at the top. Green means they completely understood the lesson; yellow means they partially understood it; and red means they need more work to understand it. These scores don't end up on their report card; they're just a snapshot of how well students understood the day's lesson. It helps me to decide on what, if anything, to reteach -- and to which students.
Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks for reading!