Sample of Topics and Skills Explored Over the Past Few Months

Dear Parents,

Our fourth quarter progress reports will be available for you to pick up from CFI in just a few weeks. Unlike the lengthy narrative reports you receive after the first and third quarters, these rubric reports are much more scaled down (brief). The reports will list the strands that fall within each curricular area as created by our South Carolina State Standards. For each of these strands I enter a value that corresponds with your child’s growth. The report will include a two-page letter explaining these values and how they are determined.

To help you to make better sense of what types of things we have been doing in the classroom during the past few months I will provide a quick list of skills that were uncovered during our work.

               

Reading               

Synonyms, Antonyms, and Homonyms

Analyzing details from a literary text

Analyzing details from a non-fiction text

Responding to texts

Discussing literature in ways to help us grow our own thinking as well as that of our peers

Finding and using text features

Writing

Poetry

Generating ideas

Revision

Editing

Writing for a variety of purposes

Letter writing

Learning from a mentor piece   

Conferencing with peers

Publishing

Math    

Problem-solving strategies

Analyzing patterns

Interpret models of equal grouping and other work around multiplication

Data analysis

Probability         

Social Studies    

Laws

Election process

Nation-states

Current news

Equity

Science

Effects of moving air

Weather terminology (temperature, wind direction, wind speed, and parcipitation)

Weather conditions of different seasons

Daily weather

Representing current sky conditions

Safety precautions in severe weather

Please refer back to earlier posts on the blog for more detailed information about many of these studies.

Thanks,

Chris