There will be a spelling test tomorrow on Animal Mimics. We are working with dipthongs (letter combinations where only 1 letter sound is heard).
On Monday, students will be taking their grammar test. We have been working on subordinating conjunctions (independent and dependent clauses). Independent clauses make sense alone, dependent clauses do not. When a dependent clause is at the beginning of the sentence, it will start with a subordinating conjunction and have a comma.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, we will have our reading test Animal Mimics. On Tuesday, students will take the portion of the test on the story vocabulary, spelling skill, grammar skill and reading comprehension based on the passage included with the test. On Wednesday, students will take the written part of the reading test. Students will be asked to describe informational text (which can be found in their reading notebooks; discussed 2 times this year. They will also need to explain the text feature cause and effect which has been discussed multiple times this year and can be found in their notebook. The third question has to do with the textbook. This is the 1st time we are using the textbook information on the reading test. Students have been reading about animals that mimic another animal. Usually 1 is poisonous and the other is not. There are characteristics that both share, yet have different end results. Students have been jotting down notes and creating graphic organizers to sort out the information. The student will be asked to pick the most interesting or most effective animal mimic and explain it using at least 2 details from the story. Please do not encourage your child to add more details based off of prior knowledge We are only using text that is provided.
Report cards will be coming home on Friday. You only need to return the envelope on Monday, keep the report card home.
Have a great weekend and see you all Monday.
Mrs. Herring
On Monday, students will be taking their grammar test. We have been working on subordinating conjunctions (independent and dependent clauses). Independent clauses make sense alone, dependent clauses do not. When a dependent clause is at the beginning of the sentence, it will start with a subordinating conjunction and have a comma.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, we will have our reading test Animal Mimics. On Tuesday, students will take the portion of the test on the story vocabulary, spelling skill, grammar skill and reading comprehension based on the passage included with the test. On Wednesday, students will take the written part of the reading test. Students will be asked to describe informational text (which can be found in their reading notebooks; discussed 2 times this year. They will also need to explain the text feature cause and effect which has been discussed multiple times this year and can be found in their notebook. The third question has to do with the textbook. This is the 1st time we are using the textbook information on the reading test. Students have been reading about animals that mimic another animal. Usually 1 is poisonous and the other is not. There are characteristics that both share, yet have different end results. Students have been jotting down notes and creating graphic organizers to sort out the information. The student will be asked to pick the most interesting or most effective animal mimic and explain it using at least 2 details from the story. Please do not encourage your child to add more details based off of prior knowledge We are only using text that is provided.
Report cards will be coming home on Friday. You only need to return the envelope on Monday, keep the report card home.
Have a great weekend and see you all Monday.
Mrs. Herring
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