Hi Everyone,
This week and next week we will be taking the PARCC Assessment. Each 5th grade class is only testing on 3 days but the testing period is over the course of two weeks. Room 12 will be testing on Tuesday, Wednesday and next Monday. As a result of the testing we are not switching classes for academic subjects. Each homeroom teacher will be teaching the enVision Math Program, Topic 15, Classifying Plane Figures. In other words, we are teaching a geometry unit. Today we began with Session 1 which was on polygons. We will also be wrapping up our science research reports this week. Tomorrow the students will have a mini-lesson on crafting satisfying conclusions. Last week they had mini-lessons on crafting interesting leads and a mini-lesson on sentence fluency. They are actively applying these new learned strategies to their own writing. Being in our homerooms also gives us valuable time to review for science MCAS. There will be some switching of classes for science and social studies instruction this week.
Last week in math we began our study of the division of decimals and will continue with that math topic after PARCC testing. In science we will have mini-units on light and sound beginning next week. During our ELA block we summarized non-fiction text using the Key Word Strategy last week. We extended our use of the strategy from summarizing single paragraphs to summarizing full stories. Have a terrific week and stay warm!
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