Test Ready Tuesday

Hello out there!

Today we took the CPS Beginning of the Year Benchmark Assessment.  I will use this test as a base line to assess students' needs and target areas. At the end of the year, we will take a similar assessment to measure growth.   Kids are asked to read a passage, identify main ideas and supporting details, summarize the text, and then respond to a prompt. All of the work we do in class supports the kids' development in citing text and explaining their ideas. It is a work in progress.  These initial scores will not be entered into the 201 Gradebook.

Today we polished up our Social Studies Study Guides. All students should have a map with helpful tips recorded on the back.  Each child should also have a one page study guide that contains key vocabulary, main ideas and details and a few brief questions and answers.  We are working on how to study, and I hope that these materials will help.
Terms to know include: industry, natural resource, elevation, landform and precipitation.   Today we discuss meanings and examples.  On a map, students were asked to label the source and mouth of the Mississippi, a tributary of the Mississippi River, the city of Chicago, the Great Lakes, the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, the Rocky and Appalachian Mountains, and draw a compass rose.  On Google Classroom you can view today's Map Assignment. The final test on Thursday will be very similar to this.


I hope that this Powerpoint slide show will help you better understand this week's grammar target: action, linking and helping verbs.
 Click here:   http://www.slideshare.net/JeanetteKropa/verb-powerpoint


Coming Soon.....

• Book Buffet project: You will receive the materials by the end of this week
• Thursday: SS test
• Thursday: Chapter 2 Math Test
• Thursday: Science Lab experiment on Density of Liquids
• Friday: Comprehension, Grammar and Vocabulary test

This evening at home....

• watch the powerpoint slide show
• complete the odd numbered problems of the Review Test in Go Math
• complete the first page of the Reading Packet. Do not do the other pages! I will explain them in class tomorrow.
• read!