Thursday, February 7, 2013

We Enjoyed a Great Visit with Our Chinese Guest Today

Ask your child about our great guest speaker today.  She was a great follow-up to our reading In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson!

Try to have paragraph comparing strengths and weaknesses of British Redcoats and Patriots finished tomorrow.  If lab is free, we will type on Word.  Remember any extra practice your child can have to practice typing for our online ISTEP test would be helpful. 

Lincoln crossword and lesson 6 questions are also due tomorrow.

please look at math spiral homework tonight.  We are practicing elapsed time on the back with the clocks.  We are seeing how much time elapsed between the first clock and the second.  Then, do the same with the second and third clock, etc...
We also worked on surface area in class today.  There are great online resources to practice these complex skills, including youtube videos that demonstrate them.

Next Tuesday is our last Acuity Language Arts test to prepare for ISTEP.  I have been looking at our data to see what standards each student did not pass on Acuity B.  I'll compare that data to what we get on Tuesday.  We will be working very hard in the next 3 weeks to do as much one-on-one as possible specifically looking at those weak skills.  You can also go on acuityathome.com to look at your child's scores with their password.  There are several resources for them to practice at home as well.  (I haven't logged on using their passwords, so tell me if you try and it doesn't work for you.)

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