Parents Teacher Weekly Communication

Language Focus

Read Aloud Skills

• Making Predictions: Encourage students to pause during reading and predict what might happen next based on text clues.
• Connecting Title to Personal Experience: Before reading, ask students how the title relates to something they’ve experienced.
• Illustrating Predictions: After making predictions, have students draw or write their ideas to visualize their thinking.

Guided Reading: Group students by reading level and focus on:

• Comprehension strategies (predicting, questioning, summarizing).
• Fluency practice (repeated reading, echo reading).
• Vocabulary building (highlight new words from the text).

Weekly Spelling

• Prepare a list of 8–10 words aligned with your current phonics or vocabulary focus.

• Math
  Daily Mental Math
  Quick warm-ups: addition/subtraction within 100, skip counting, doubles, and near doubles.
  Example: “What’s 25 + 25?” or “What’s 10 more than 67?”
  Fractions
  Concepts: halves, thirds, quarters.
  Hands-on Activities: Paper Folding: Fold paper into equal parts and label.
  Fraction Pizza: Use paper circles or real food to show fractions.
  Fraction Hunt: Find fractions in the classroom (e.g., half a pencil box filled).
• Grade 3: Fractions represent parts of a whole. Equivalent fractions have the same value even if numerators and denominators differ. Multiply or divide numerator and denominator by the same number to find equivalents.
  
  Science
  Grade 2 – Air and Water in the Environment
  Key Ideas: Properties of air and water.
  Importance for living things.
  Water Cycle Craft: Create a diagram with evaporation, condensation, precipitation.
  Grade 3 – Soil and Environment
  Key Ideas: Types of soil, uses, and how it supports life.
  Activities: Soil Observation: Collect samples, compare texture and color.
• Work on worksheets related to the topics.