News Letter April 22-26
M-Step Assessments: Math and Reading
Students will be tested in math and reading very soon. Here is an opportunity to practice at home as well as in class. Please copy and paste/ or click this address for M-Step practice. Testing dates are decided by the state.
https://wbte.drcedirect.com/MI/portals/mi/
Reading M-Step: May 7 and May 8
Math M-Step: May 14 and May 15
Spelling Homework : List #22 skill: Contractions (not, are, have, is, will)
- Each week your child will add a spelling card to this collection. Students will study List A or List B for the week, depending on pretest results. All students will need to study the words in “both” section. There will be 5 content words added as well for a total of 20 words.
- Tic-Tac-Toe: Students will use the same board for the first nine weeks. They will choose three squares to complete and hand in on Friday or the day of the week. Have fun 🙂
Spelling Test:Friday
Reading:
~20-30 minutes –In addition to reading books, students may use Education City and any reading assignment towards the 30 minutes of reading .Education City: New website-students have their username and password on their planner. It is the yellow paper. Mobymax is also available on Clever for reading, math, science, social studies, and writing.
~Reading Standard:
Craft and Structure:
Determine the meaning of general academic and domain-specific words and phrases in a text relevant to a grade 3 topic or subject area.
Use text features and search tools (e.g., key words, sidebars, hyperlinks) to locate information relevant to a given topic efficiently.
Language Arts: Students study grammar and language review Monday-Thursday. Study guide comes home Thursday and the quiz will be on Thursday. We are focusing possessives.
Math:Develop understanding of fractions as numbers.
Understand a fraction 1/b as the quantity formed by 1 part when a whole is partitioned into b equal parts; understand a fraction a/b as the quantity formed by a parts of size 1/b.
Mrs. Shakarchi and students in room 217.