Well...it is definitely a Monday!! It was definitely an interesting day to say the least! To begin with, I knew our schedule was going to be WAY different than it usually is because we had to take the Reading and Math MAPS test!! ugh...I know!! Along with that, we had 3 students absent (which is very rare), the girl scouts and boy scouts came to talk to us, we moved our Exploration Place time to earlier, and we had PE right at the start of the school day!! WOW...it must be a full moon tonight!! :)
With regards to MAPS testing, we took the reading in the morning and the math in the afternoon. We take them in the winter and spring as well. These scores give us a great piece of data to base student achievement off of! We will send home reports as soon as everyone has completed the tests for the fall!! If you ever have any questions about testing please let me know!
We also caught up on some make-up work and missing assignments and took our pre-spelling test!!! I handed back last weeks spelling tests and math tests, and let me tell you...they did AWESOME!!! I paid a lot of students for 100% and better!! I even had a student get a perfect score on the unit 1 math test!! Woohoo!!!
To finish our day we had Carley's birthday treats (mmmmm....delicious) and finished watching Winn-Dixie since we didn't have time to finish it last Friday! Also, congratulations to Gavin for being selected "Celebrity of the Week!!" Way to go Gavin!!
This week we will be starting a new story called "Grandfather's Journey!" Be sure to check out the story of the week tab to get familiar with what we will be talking about throughout the next 2 weeks! I have a lot of fun activities planned to go along with the story...I'm super excited to start this new topic as well as unit 2 in math!! It's going to be a great week!
Reminder: Thursday is PICTURE day!!
Have a great evening,
Mrs. Elder
With regards to MAPS testing, we took the reading in the morning and the math in the afternoon. We take them in the winter and spring as well. These scores give us a great piece of data to base student achievement off of! We will send home reports as soon as everyone has completed the tests for the fall!! If you ever have any questions about testing please let me know!
We also caught up on some make-up work and missing assignments and took our pre-spelling test!!! I handed back last weeks spelling tests and math tests, and let me tell you...they did AWESOME!!! I paid a lot of students for 100% and better!! I even had a student get a perfect score on the unit 1 math test!! Woohoo!!!
To finish our day we had Carley's birthday treats (mmmmm....delicious) and finished watching Winn-Dixie since we didn't have time to finish it last Friday! Also, congratulations to Gavin for being selected "Celebrity of the Week!!" Way to go Gavin!!
This week we will be starting a new story called "Grandfather's Journey!" Be sure to check out the story of the week tab to get familiar with what we will be talking about throughout the next 2 weeks! I have a lot of fun activities planned to go along with the story...I'm super excited to start this new topic as well as unit 2 in math!! It's going to be a great week!
Reminder: Thursday is PICTURE day!!
Have a great evening,
Mrs. Elder