Tuesday, March 3-Monday, March 9 - ISAT testing
Monday, March 9 - Conference week
Tuesday, March 10- Report cards go home
Thursday, March 12 - School Improvement Day 1/2 day of school
Friday, March 13 - No School/Conferences
ISAT Testing Begins
Here are suggestions on how parents can help their children prepare for the ISAT:
Make sure your child gets a good night’s sleep before the tests
Make sure your child eats a healthy breakfast the days of the test/healthy snack to school
Let your child know that he or she should take the test seriously and do his or her best
Talk to your child about what to do while taking the test, including:
Paying attention to directions
Asking questions about directions if they are unclear
Reading each question carefully
Eliminating wrong answers right away, concentrating on remaining choices
Double checking answers
Language Arts: The language arts classes will not be meeting this week. The students should be reading each night and keeping track of their reading in their folders.
Math - No formal math classes will be meeting this week.
Social Studies This week in social studies the children will describe the Cahokia as the early trading center of the Midwest. They will identify the goals of the Lewis and Clark expedition.
A test is planned for The following Wednesday, March 11 over chapter 9. The students should know:
- All vocabulary
- Early life of the Ojibwa
- Explorers of the Midwest and what they are know for exploring
- John Deere
- know how the pioneers survived when they came to the Midwest
- Midwestern cities that were trading posts
- Why was a water route to the Midwest important
- steamboat purpose
- compare advantages to shipping by rail vs steamboat
- Why did the Ojibwa rely on game instead of farming for their main source of food?
- Goals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition
- Why Cahokia and St. Louis were good places for trade
- Compare the two main types of homes that the Midwester pioneers built. Tell how they were like and how they were different. Be ready to tell as much as you know about it.
Science This week the students will use a spring scale and a balance to understand the difference between weight and mass. They will also understand that friction is a force that resists or opposes, motion between objects that are in contact. They will learn how friction can be controlled.
A test over chapter 16 in science will be on Tuesday, March 10th. This chapter has many difficult concepts to understand and we will be reviewing them all week.
They should know:
- All vocabulary
- measurement of force of gravity on an object
- the force that resists motion between objects
- What happens when you increase the force on an object
- understand the concept of gravity
- what 2 things must be measured to find speed
- Why is the gas pedal in a car called an accelerator
- Why do we need friction? What are examples of friction?
- What can things can reduce friction? Explain why.
- inertia- understand what it is and how it works
- undersand the difference between mass and weight
