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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Peek at the Week</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Week of March 8<sup>th</sup></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">ISAT Testing</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">ISAT Testing will continue on Monday and Tuesday.<span> </span>On Monday morning, the students will be assessed on reading (multiple choice and extended response).<span> </span>The ISAT will end on Tuesday, with the completion of two math extended response questions.<span> </span>Because the ISAT extends into this week, there will be no Tic Tac Toe Activities due on Friday.<span> </span>Homework will resume next week.<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Reader’s Workshop</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Starting Wednesday, the students will be assessed on their reading level.<span> </span>The teacher will administer a book to assess every student’s word identification, fluency, and comprehension skills.<span> </span>This assessment accounts for 10% of the final grade.<span> </span>(As stated at the beginning of the quarter, the third quarter reading grade is measured by 50% ISAT Prep, 10% Behavior, 10% Homework, 10% Book Recommendation, 10% ISAT practice on the computer, and 10% Running Record).<span> </span>While I am assessing a student, the other students have the responsibility to be reading, writing book recommendations, or completing extra credit work.<span> </span>Every student has been informed that they have the opportunity to earn extra credit points by responding to a letter written by Miss Wejman.<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Writer’s Workshop</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">The fifth graders will be introduced to the city wide Young Author’s Competition on Wednesday.<span> </span>Every writer has a choice to write poetry, a fiction story, a narrative, or an informational story.<span> </span>Each writer’s workshop period in March will be devoted to the student working on their writing.<span> </span>Their published writing needs to be turned in on the day that we come back from Spring Break (April 5<sup>th</sup>).<span> </span>The writing will be graded through the appropriate rubric that the student will receive this week (each genre of writing has a different rubric).<span> </span>Their published work will account for 20% percent of their third quarter grade.<span> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">Social Studies</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center">To learn about all of the different changes that took place during the 1800’s, every group of fifth graders will be researching a change that occurred in the United   States.<span> </span>Such changes include: the anti-slavery movement, the women’s suffrage movement, Native American removal, immigration and city life, steamboats, canals, and trains, and cotton and slavery.<span> </span>Ask your fifth grader which change they are studying.<span> </span></p>
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