What's New in Basic Skills

October into November: MIS Grades 4-5

I’m looking forward to discussing your child’s progress at fall conferences in November!  Use this link to choose a time slot. Comment if you would like to meet in person (room 105) or virtually. Links to all virtual meetings will be sent that week.

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4th and 5th grade math groups continued along their customized i-Ready learning paths. Fourth graders practiced unit 2 topics such as factors, multiples, and multiplicative comparison. The 5th graders from Mrs. Stab’s class worked on volume concepts, and Mrs. Shipman’s students focused on powers of ten and conversions. 

4th Grades: Our fourth grade Wilson Just Words students have been decoding words with a mix of short and long vowel syllable types. They added Latin bases with long vowel sounds to their skill sets. Their unit 6 test was taken towards the end of October. They also read about growing oversized pumpkins and summarized their reading along the way.

5th Grades: Our students completed units 1-5 in the Voyager Sopris Rewards program. They worked heavily with vowel sound conversions and prefixes. Automatic recognition of these word parts will help fluency and spelling accuracy. We work with this program on Mondays and read and respond to comprehension passages on Wednesdays and Fridays.