First of all, here are all our important dates coming up. More to come in the way of permission slips and timelines before we leave for Spring Break:
- March 28th--Last Day before Spring Break
- April 9th--Class Resumes and our class pets arrive 🐸🦀
- April 11th--MStep testing begins
- April 27th--Field Trip to Impression Five Museum (permission slips to come home this week)
- May 24th--Coffee House Author Celebration (This will be all afternoon. Flyer to come home this week)
- June 4th--5th Grade Greenfield Village/Henry Ford Museum Field Trip
- June 5th--Last Day of School
M Step Two days after we arrive back from spring break we will begin the MStep and our goal is to keep a healthy perspective on testing here in fifth grade. There are many things we teach that are not easy to measure on a test. Having said that, the academic learning we've done this year has been significant. We are so proud of what we know. When the testing time comes, we want to see it for what it's worth--One measure. One day. Not the most important thing, but very important nonetheless. Data is the only information some may ever have about what happened this year in our classroom. We know we have done good and authentic learning in here, and so we want to make this data as good and authentic as we can. That is why we try our best on the tests we take, and take them very seriously indeed.
We certainly don't want anxiety to take over. The motto is, "Keep calm, and simply show what you can do." There are a few things families can be extra mindful of to prepare students to do their best and feel good on test day.
- Get a good night's sleep
- Eat breakfast, preferably including some kind of protein. :-)
- Get up early so the morning routine isn't rushed and stressful.
- Bring a healthy snack to school (fresh fruit/veggies or cheese sticks/yogurt)
- I'd like to make sure everyone has a snack on testing days. If you would be interested in sending a healthy snack to school for sharing, please let me know!
Thank you so much for your support in this.
Here are just a few of the happenings in our classroom this winter. Enjoy pics and video. :-)
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| Colony Billboards and sales presentations. |
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| Readers talk about books. |
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| Learning about motion. |
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| We like to move while we learn as much as we can. |
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| We pride ourselves on good discussions. |
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| Abram's Planetarium on Valentine's Day <3 |
This is great! Thanks for sharing some of the wonderful things you do in your classroom. I can see how much fun the students are having, and therefore, all the learning that is taking place. :) Thank you!!!
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