May 17th - May 23rd News!

Dear Families,

It was great to see some of you at our monthly Family Night! We are officially done with STAR testing!! You will receive your child’s test results in the mail sometime in September. Overall school scores broken down by grade will be available in July on the internet. Thank you for making sure your children were on time and well rested, they did great!


Your child may mention some additional testing I have started in the classroom and they will be referring to the WRAT tests. These tests are for Innovations Academy and will tell us how your child has grown in reading comprehension, spelling, and math. Students took the math and spelling tests last Friday and I will begin scoring them this week. The other portion of the test is done individually, so of course takes additional time. If you have any questions, let me know.

Talking about the end of the year, on Monday, June 7th, in the afternoon we will be at the YMCA engaging in "WACKY RACES". On Friday, the 11th as noted in my last BLOG, we will be going to "Flip Force". Both of these will be great fun for your children! The very last week of school, I am planning a final field trip. I'm not sure what we will be doing yet, but am open to suggestions from parents. I would like it to be fun and educational. I would also like to have a final class party on the last day of school. Students have asked for a pizza party. Are there any parent willing to donate plates and napkins? I have drinks and will buy the pizza's out of our class funds.



In math:

We will be finishing up learning a partial-quotient strategy in division and moving onto some fraction work, understanding angles, and probability.

For writing:

We are still working on summaries. Students are working hard learning how to restate information using synonyms and pronouns.

In Science:

We are looking at classification of living things.

Project:

Students have been given dates to finish each part of their project. Some are still working on their 3-D representation and others on their reports.



At this point in the year, we are almost finished with Wordly Wise. When we have finished, we will either move to other sets of words or engage in other types of word work.

That's it for now.
Kim