Testing Tuesday

We are starting our "End of Year Portfolio Work" as of today.  This means... more testing!

• 1st - Literacy Block
• We started the day with breakfast, then we moved into reading "Stuart Little".  We answered some key ideas and detail questions and then prepped the room for some portfolio work.
• 2nd / 3rd - ELA Portfolio Individual Work
• Students read two texts.  One was a fiction and the other was non-fiction.  For each text they had to answer 4 key idea and detail questions as well as respond to 2 short response questions.  So they had a total of 8 multiple choice and 4 short response to work on in the 2 periods.  Starting tomorrow, I have will be pulling students up one by one to do the oral fluency assessment.  The will read 100 words from a third grade text and I will do a running record to see if they can read the small passage with greater than 90% accuracy.  The writing section is already done (All the PBA's we have been working on all year.)  Me and your child will look at their portfolio and pull out their two best PBA's to put in their end of the year promotion portfolio.  The only writing they will have to do is fix anything that is less than a 2.  If all their PBA's are above a 2, then they are done!
• 4th - Math 
• Since we just had portfolio work for ELA, we decided to do math games.  We passed out math sheets and then had students come up to the board and roll the smartboard interactive dice.  They had to add the dice, then multiply the sum by 4.  Then they had to mark the # on their board.  When everyone had a chance to roll the dice, they had to look at their results which made a bar graph of sorts.  They had to look at the results and create 3 problems that someone cold answer by looking at their graph.
• 5th - Lunch/Recess
• 6th - Science with Mr. Hoffman and Sub in the classroom
• 7th - Social Studies - Finished Unit 3 on China (in SS book)

Homework:

• Math - Study Chapter 12 vocabulary
• Literacy
• Read 45-60 Minutes independently (AR test by Friday)
• Reading Comp Wk25D1 / Spelling Practice on (Fill in and Circle the Correct)
• Language - Adverbs with -ly