4.17 Brain Building 4.15 and 4.16 iReady Reading Diagnostic 4.22 and 4.23 iReady Math Diagnostic 4.25 Spring Showcase and Art Show 4.29, 4.30 , and 5.1- 3rd grade ELA Milestones 5.6 and 5.7- 3rd grade math Milestones 2024-25 Class Placement Considerations This May we will begin to hold our placement meetings to create classes for the next school year. We value your input as parents and want to consider the whole child when creating classes. If you want to provide feedback on the type of classroom environment you feel your child would do best in, feel free to fill out this optional survey from Mrs. Zarzour. She will be taking feedback until May 10th that she will consider as a part of our school process. This feedback is private and only necessary information is shared with us as teachers. https://forms.office.com/r/qLsXUL6CDX iReady Diagnostics On April 15 and 16 will begin to take our end of the year iReady Diagnostic assessments in Reading and on April 22 and 23 in Math. These tests are nationally normed and will provide us with a snapshot of all they have learned this school year! Unlike GA Milestones, it is not limited to just the grade level standards and is a K-8 adaptive assessment. This allows us to see the full depth of a student's understanding. This assessment is one of the things Mrs. Zarzour considers when looking at what advanced courses or supports a student may need next fall. Please encourage your child to do their very best on this assessment as it is an important end of the year assessment to show all of their growth. https://forms.office.com/r/qLsXUL6CDX READING This week we read plays! We looked at what the lesson learned was from these stories. Next week we will read some realistic ficition and also consider what lesson the characters are learning. PHONICS Returning from break we we will build fluency with closed, multi syllable words. GRAMMAR This week we learned about shades of meaning! SOCIAL STUDIES AND SCIENCE This week we introduced heat! We will keep learning about heat next week. Our field trip to Tellus was amazing and was a great review of what we learned about fossils earlier this year. We hope your children share all about it with you! WRITING This week we did an "on demand" opinion writing where students had an hour to read 2 short texts and write an opinion essay. They did really amazing with their time management and already are showing they are ready for this test coming up! Encourage your students to show off all they learned in their writing and that you believe in them. Next week they will get to re-read their essay and use a checklist to decide what they did well and how they can improve. After we make improvments on our opinion essay, we will transition to practicing writing narrative stories for Milestones as well. These practices will not be for a grade. Math: Enhanced (on level)- This week we finished our area and perimeter unit. Next week we will start a new unit focusing on shapes. This unit will wrap up before we start math Milestone testing. Accelerated- This week we explored and created lines of symmetry. Next week we will review area and perimeter as it is covered on the upcoming unit 6 test. Our test will likley be the week of April 22nd , next blog post I will get you the exact date. STUDENT SUCESS SKILLS (social/emotional) Next week we will learn about self compassion!
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