Week of January 14th

News and Notes

There are 29 more instructional days until the writing test. The writing test will be February 26, 2013.  Mr. Prater has spent the last eighty-six days preparing your child for the Florida writing score.   Your child needs to be here every day in order to receive valuable information to pass the F.C.A.T writing test.  The crafts of a good writer are being taught.  The children are taught: capitalization, grammar, punctuation, and spelling tips. Your child is also being taught how to make their writing sizzle.  arrative and Narrative and expository writing is also being taught so that the children will score a four, five or six.  

 

FCAT week is the week of April 16.  There are fifty-nine days until the math and reading test. In Math your child is being taught area, equivalent fraction and simplifying fractions, ordering decimals, and factors and multiples this week.  In reading the children are building up reading stamina and working on the following skills:  informational text, and finding personification as they read.

 

The school year is half over and this quarter is one of the most challenging quarters of the year.   Mr. Prater and I need your assistance to make sure your child is successful in our class by being in school and being on time.  Homework needs to be done by your child nightly to assure your child has had the necessary practice to pass to the fifth grade.

Homework

Mon -Mr. Prater’s reading and spelling packet. Read thirty minutes every day. Math focus tonight simplify fractions and Jupiter 12. (Sunshine math)

Tues. - Mr. Prater’s packet. Read thirty minutes every day. Math focus tonight Area and Jupiter 12.

Wed. - Mr. Prater’s packet. Read thirty minutes every day. Math focus tonight simplify fractions and Jupiter 12. (Sunshine math)

Thursday night there is no assigned homework as Friday and Monday we are out for planning day and Dr. King’s birthday.  Ixl is always good practice for everyone every night, and make sure that your student reads every night.

Tests for the week

Monday-Decimals

Tuesday- Fractions, decimals and percents.(flash card test)

Wednesday- Simplifying fractions and Area.

 

Thursday - Spelling Test and Reading Selection Test