I am sorry that I did not get this out to you yesterday. I was home with a sick kiddo. If your student needed to do make-up tests from Thursday of last week, they will get those done today.
ELA:
This week we will be introducing ReadWorks. It is a program that I use to work on reading comprehension specifically with non-fiction passages. We will also be finishing up our first novel study on Stone Fox. Students will have their normal weekly quizzes this week.
Math:
This week we are finishing up with Topic 2. On Thursday we will be doing a review of Topic 2 and will be taking our first math test on those skills on Monday. I do the big tests in math differently than the quizzes. Students will take the test on Monday, then I will mark the ones they missed with a line through that number, and then students will have a chance to make corrections on Tuesday and that will be the grade that they get. They get 1 point per correct answer and one point for showing their work.
Having them really focus on any IXL skills from Topic 2 that they haven't mastered would be a great way to help them study over the weekend.
Interim ISATs:
We are taking the Interim ISATs this week. They are a shortened version of the ISAT that gives us a good idea of where students are at. The state requires us to do this, but I use them to sit down with each student individually and set learning goals. We will talk about what they did well on and what they need to focus on since they struggled. I also talked to my class about how ISATs can seem scary and the format can be intimidating so doing the interim ones help us to be more familiar with them and ease some of that testing anxiety when it comes to the final one in the spring. :)
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