Friday, October 25, 2013

Sentence Fluency


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.

 Homework & Reminders

  • 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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