The school is providing snacks that I called "brain food" for each day of testing. Along with this, please encourage your child to eat a healthy breakfast and get enough rest each night. I have discussed these tips with the students in a way to hopefully not make them too nervous. Being it is the first time your 3B child is taking the test, it is important to not get them worked up. All we ask is they try their best! That's it. So please don't discuss the testing with them in the way that will cause anxiety. I know they will be fine as we have discussed many testing tips that will be useful with any test your child ever takes.
So the week is fairly choppy due to testing. I am going to try and wrap up a math unit on measurement, perimeter, and area this week if possible. We will have to wait and see how the testing times go to determine that. We will be jumping into our social studies book this week and discussing communities. Look for an sheet to be coming home tomorrow explaining and activity about places the students have been and bringing in pictures, postcards, etc. We will be using our own "touring" and personal connections to build a better understanding of the different types of communities in social studies so look for that tomorrow. Last week I introduced "Google Earth" to the students-which they LOVED! I have heard many of you have already downloaded it at home per your child's request. It is wonderful access to places around the world.....a virtual field trip....that we will continue to use throughout the year! For those of you who have downloaded it, I hope you are enjoying it. For those of you who have not, it is a free download off the internet that holds lots of valuable learning. I encourage you to give it a try.
Remember I will be increasing the amount of homework that is given this quarter. Today I noticed that many students did not do their homework given last Friday of singing the "Perimeter Song". Not a great way to start the week. Remember we need to work together in trying to build each child's responsibility with homework as there will be LOTS more in 4th grade.
Students were very excited last week to also begin their own blog pages. Wow....they think they are "big stuff" now! (which they are! :) We just made a basic blog post last week in practicing getting to and from their blog pages. This week I hope to have each of them make a post about a book they have been reading......we will probably go into next week to finish that due to conflicts in time with ITBS scheduling. Remember that we love to have comments from parents and relatives on our blog pages!!!! (hint, hint)
Enjoy the week! Hard to believe we are almost half way through November already! Wow!
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