Well, the tension has one additional day to build. Due to the weather report, Disney has decided to delay ISAT administration. Tomorrow will be a regular, if rather snowy, school day. Testing will begin on Wednesday. This means the 4th grade students will take the Science ISAT next Tuesday, not this Friday.
Today we.....
- Played lots of calculator games. We challenged our brains to beat the calculator, and most times, we proved that we are accurate human calculators! We discussed how calculators are great for some problems, such as finding the mean, or working with large numbers. We learned that we need our brains to get started and that calculators will not help us with strategy!
- Created mini fact finders to help us review Science topics
- Spend some time exploring figurative language. We will examine poetry and song lyrics to help us.
- Create factor trees and multiple eggs
- Discuss Holes and meet in book discussion groups
- There is no formal homework scheduled for ISAT week. I noticed from the edmodo posts that many students were "bored" last weekend. If you are looking for extra credit, complete some brain pop activities, go on Study Island, or log on to ST Math or TenMarks. You may also write some extra reading responses.
..are scheduled to go home with students on Wednesday. Let's not allow this timing to interfere with our ISAT motivation. If your child has dropped a few percentage points in a subject, there is still time to raise the quarter grade! Please let me know if you would like to discuss learning goals for your child.
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