Thursday, February 27, 2014

News from Mrs. Cavoto's Room March 3-March 7

March 4-6 ISAT Testing Please have your child get plenty of rest and eat a healthy breakfast.  You may want to send him/ her out the door with words of encouragement: "Take your time.", "Check over your work.", "Try your hardest.", and of course, "I love you." :)

Spelling - No spelling this week

Math - ISAT testing

Reading - ISAT testing- They will continue to work on their poetry. They should have their writing notebooks at home with the papers in it they explain the kinds of poetry and the poetry requirements with a rater.  They should be completing a poem each day.  So if they do not get to finish during the day, they need to finish in the evening at home.

English - This week we will continue our work with verbs.  The students will write the past tense verbs with helping verbs have, has, had with singular or plural subjects.  They will recognize the different forms of the word Be and they will form contractions using verbs and the word not.  There will be an English test on verbs, unit 3, on Tuesday, March 11th. There will be homework that comes home to help the students review.  They can use their textbook to review as there is a lot of extra practice in their book.

Science - This week we will be review concepts to prep for the ISAT test that is next week.

Social Studies - In social studies this week, the students will make a model of the Badlands.  They will understand why the Midwest is an important agricultural region.