We decided to get the
tests out of the way first thing this morning. Students did a speed drill,
wrote a spelling test and language quiz. This was followed by a geometry review
written test style. All tests are coming home today. Look out for them in your
child's backpack, review and sign, and then return them to school on Monday.
In our story telling unit,
we read a book called ‘I Will Never Not
Ever Eat a Tomato’ by Lauren Child. We used this book to work on sentence
fluency. Students did a quick write about chocolate. Once the writing was done,
students counted the number of short, long, and medium sentences they had
written. They used a rubric to score their work. If they wrote only one kind of
sentence, they gave themselves a level 1. If their writing contained a mixture
of short, medium, and long sentences, they gave themselves a level 3. Students
then repeated the activity, with the goal have having a mixture of sentences.
They then used the same rubric to score their writing.
In
language, students continued reviewing the use of commas, quotation marks, and
apostrophes. In arithmetic, students were supposed to have a lesson on
calculating averages. We used class time for conferencing on the geometry
review so everybody is ready for Monday's geometry unit test. Because of the
extra time taken for geometry, we did not have the lesson on averages. Students
are requested to complete the assigned arithmetic pages but to skip the
problems on averages. We will cover that work on Monday.
Students
attended French, art, and gym class today.
- Review, sign, and return all tests coming home today
- MMS - Study for Monday's geometry unit test, look out for the review pages and 2 large study sheets coming home today
- Arithmetic p. 53 & 54
- Language p. 34 & 35
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