GRAMMAR LESSON 27 The skill for this week is using commas in sentences. Commas are used in compound sentences, in a series, and with dates. Help your child see the different ways commas are used in a sentence by looking for them while reading.
SPELLING: LESSON 27 jelly,bottom,pillow,happen,butter,lesson,cherry,sudden,arrow,dollar,hello,rabbit,letter,button Thank you to those that were able to volunteer to be chaperones for our May 15th field trip. If you were not chosen or were not able to come with on that date you can join us on May 30th at the Skating Place. More details will be posted as we get closer to that date. On Tuesday and Wednesday (April 29-30) of this week we will take the Math MCA tests. Once again I'm asking you to help your child by seeing to it that they get to bed at a good hour the night before and also have a good breakfast on those dates. I wish I could share the results of the Reading tests but we aren't allowed to do it at this time. Let me just say this that as a class we scored about the same as my group did a year ago for our class average and last year I was happy. Everyone that I felt would exceed or meet the standard did just that. A strategy that we use for our Math MCA test is for the students to read the question twice along with showing their work on a piece of scratch paper. I'm also asking the students to do the problems twice before they click on the answer. Please remind your child to do just that. Last year my class had 92% meeting or exceeding the test compared to 75% for the rest of the District! In 2012 we also scored 92% compared to the District average of 81%! I'm confident that this year we can do the same and get higher than 92%.
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GRAMMAR SKILL: LESSON 26 The skill for this week is writing quotations. Quotation marks are used with someone’s exact words, and show what the person said. Have your child look for quotation marks and examine how are they are used while reading.
SPELLING LIST: LESSON 26 person,helmet,until,carpet,Monday,enjoy,forget,problem,Sunday,garden,order, mistake,umpire,herself REMINDER: Photos were sent home last week of your child. If you have not paid for them yet please send money along with your child for them. If you don't want to purchase the photos you need to return them. Please take a look at your schedule and if you are interested in chaperoning our field trip to the Science Museum on Thursday, May 15th please call 320-258-1203. I can only take 4 parents along so the first 4 phone calls received will be chosen. The price for adults is $10 and we leave at 7:40 a.m. and will return by 3:00 p.m. Let's continue working hard on the Math MCA homework sheets. We will test next week on Tuesday and Wednesday April 29-30th. PTAC-- Spring Carnival Friday, May 2nd from 6-8 Wristbands are 5 dollars Pizza, cookies, pop, water will be sold Raffle for basket items We need volunteers for this event. Please contact Jim Dorn [email protected] SPELLING WORDS: took,books,foot,hoof,cook,hood,wood,somebody,fireplace,nearby,toothbrush, homesick,anything,goodbye.
The big week is here! MCA TEST TIME! Please...please...please have your child in bed early on Monday and Tuesday night and on time to school for Tuesday and Wednesday. They should also eat a good breakfast which I'm sure always happens anyway. We test right at 8:00 a.m. on April 15th and 16th. We will be doing the Reading test. Please remind your child that they should read their stories twice before answering the questions. Some of you will be getting a letter from me today indicating your child is repeating forgetting to either return their Math homework or not even attempting to do it. You can count on a homework assignment each evening unless they write in their agenda they are just to study their flashcards. As your child gets older you can count on them getting even more homework so the habits they establish this year will stay with them for a long time. Please check in with them each night and see what they have done. Thank you again for your support . Why read 20 minutes at home? *What follows is based on research done with parents of young children. Student A Reads: -20 minutes a day -3600 minutes a school year -1,800,000 words per year -Scores in the 90th percentile on standardized tests Student B Reads: -5 minutes a day -900 minutes a school year -282,000 words a year -Scores in the 50th percentile on standardized tests Student C Reads: -1 minute a day -180 minutes a school year -8,000 words per year -Scores in the 10th percentile on standardized tests If they start reading 20 minutes per night in Kindergarten, by the end of 6th grade Student A will have read for the equivalent of 60 school days, Student B will have read for the equivalent of 12 school days, and Student C will have read for the equivalent of 3 school days. Want to be a better reader? READ!! After reading that bit of information I also tend to look at the big picture. Would student C even be able to attend college someday based on their scores? I'm not saying going to college is the ultimate goal of everyone, but I just read an article and am including some items from it. "In a modern, knowledge-based economy, the only thing more expensive than going to college is not going to college," he says. College-educated young adults make more money per year than those that do not. Here are the numbers: Those with a college degree now make $17,500 more per year than those without — a wage gap that's doubled in recent decades. Those without a degree are four times more likely to be unemployed. Source: Pew Research Center Credit: Alyson Hurt |
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