Happy Sunday!
Curriculum
This week, we will finish up poetry and plays our standard on poems, stories and dramas. Students will be able to refer to parts of stories, dramas, and poems when writing or speaking about a text, using terms such as chapter, scene, and stanza and describe how each successive part builds on earlier sections. In writing, we will continue to write from two sources and create informational writing. In math, we’ll jump into time. This standard can be difficult. We will do periodic time checks during the day. If you’d like, you can continue this at home with any analog clock. By the end of this unit, students will be able to tell and write time to the nearest minute and measure time intervals in minutes and solve word problems involving addition and subtraction of time intervals in minutes.
Students are also working within groups on performance tasks in preparation for SBAC and MAPs testing. Our days will shift during the coming weeks and we may have math in the morning and reading in the afternoon. This will allow students to get used to working on all subject areas, regardless of the time of day, and helps us better prepare for testing as well. I am sending home notes for you to fill out for SBAC testing this week. When you send them back in, please send them in a sealed envelope so your students have that surprise on testing day.
Nevada Reading Week & Dress Days
This is what we have in store for Nevada Reading week:
Testing Calendar
- 3/13 AM – SBAC ELA CAT
- 3/26 AM – SBAC ELA Performance Task Part 1
- 3/27 AM – SBAC ELA Performance Task Part 2
- 3/31 – MAPS Spring Math
- 4/02 – MAPS Spring Science
Upcoming Events
- 2/24 – 2/28 Reading Week
- 2/28 Donuts with Dads
- 3/4 Spring Pictures
- 3/6 Unsats go Home
- 3/6 Free Dress Day – Pattern Day
- 3/9 No School for Students and Teachers
- 3/12 PTA Spirit Night Fundraiser
This week’s homework: 2019-02-24 Homework
Ms. B. in Class 