Friday, March 1, 2013

Behind the Scenes - Week of March 4


Weekly Spotlight:
*No spelling unit this week due to ISAT testing.
*ISAT Reading Part I on Tuesday at 10:00.
*ISAT Math Part I on Tuesday at 12:30.
*ISAT Reading Part II on Wednesday at 10:00.
*ISAT Math Part II on Wednesday at 12:30.
*ISAT Reading Part III on Thursday at 10:00.
*ISAT Math Part III on Thursday at 12:30.
*Make-up ISAT testing on Friday.

Coming Attractions:
*ISAT Science Part I on Monday, March 11 at 10:00.
*ISAT Science Part II on Tuesday, March 12 at 10:00.
*Early Dismissal on Tuesday, March 19.
*End of 3rd Quarter on Friday, March 22.

Homeroom Happenings:
Science - The students will work together in their Simple Machine groups to prepare for their presentations that will be next week.

Social Studies - We will continue working on our "Just Look" state research books.  The children are doing a wonderful job writing correct paragraphs with a topic sentence and detail sentences.

Spelling - We will take this week off from spelling due to ISAT testing.

English - The children will take their next unit pretest this week.  They will also choose their enrichment options this week.

Reading - We will continue to work on reading information text.  The children will practice envisioning and identify text structure.  Also, we will identify the main idea of sections of text.  We will use most of our reading time this week for ISAT testing.

Mrs. Sulima's Math Spotlight:
Monday - Review Fourth Grade Math Concepts (Median, Mode, Range, Probability, and measurement)
Tuesday - ISAT Testing in math class.
Wednesday - ISAT Testing in math class.
Thursday - ISAT Testing in math class.
Friday - Fractions (Simplest form, Least Common Multiple, and Least Common Denominator)  HW:  WB pgs. 44 (odds 1-49) & 46 (odds 1-47)