Dear Parents and Guardians,

We have just completed the next to the last session of ISAT. The room is very quiet and I am taking this time to say Hello! I think the children are really doing their best and I am very proud of them. You should be too! Tommorrow is the last session and we will resume our regular schedule.

This week we will be working on the following:

LANGUAGE ARTS:

We have completed reading "Scraps of Time." We really enjoyed reading this book together. We will have a test on the book by the end of this week. We will also have a writing as well as an art activity based on the book. We will have a culminating experience so we can celebrate the book. We will have a round table book discussion along with our experience.

We will resume our regular literature program next week. We will be reading in our OpenCourt readers as well as working in small groups.

MATH:

We will be completing the first journal as we have also started to work in the second math journal. I will cover most of the material at the end of the last journal.  I selected certain parts to make sure we had covered what I thought the children really needed to know for testing.

The second journal begins with extending multiplication facts.  Some of the children still need help with learning their basic multiplication facts. I will send home a copy of the tables from 2-9 for these students. Please copy these sheets as xerox paper is limited. Please continue to quiz your child at home to make sure they know all their multiplication tables from 2-11.

We will not have homework until tommorrow to ensure our student's get to bed early for the final day of testing.

SOCIAL STUDIES:

We will begin our regular work in Map Essentials. We will learWe will also take our test on the southern states on Friday.  In honor of Women's Month we will explore the accomplishments of women who have made a contribution to society.  well as explore the accomplishments of women throughout our history as well as today. There will be a project assigned.