Upcoming Tests
Spelling
Spelling words for test on November 13th:
hot not got mop hop
top eat stop sing sings
Religion
There will be a Religion test on Chapters 3&6 on Friday November 20th.
Pleaes review the chapter quiz and p. 81. The children will need to know
what each season is all about and the color the priest wears during the
season.
Advent/Lent--Purple
Christmas/Easter--White
Ordinary Time--Green
Three Days--Red
Math
We will complete our first graded Math Maintenance this week.
There will be a quiz on Subtraction facts from 8 or less on Thursday
November 12th. It will be very much like the addition quiz but with
subtraction facts instead.
Reading
We will assess Word list #8 on Tuesday November 10th. The children
will need to know the words, without sounding them out. There will be a few
review words from list #7.
We will take our first Unit test (Unit 2) on Tuesday November 17th. The
Unit tests begin with the teachers reading most of the test, to the children
reading most, to the children reading all by the end of the year. So this
first test, I will be reading the stories and the questions and the children
will choose the correct answer choices. The types of questions the children
will answer about the stories will deal with the setting, cause and effect,
sequencing events, author's purpose and antonyms.
The second section of the test is on Phonics. The children will be tested
on short vowels (a, i and o), Final consonants, -s plurals and inflected
endings -ing, -s.
The third section is Writing and Grammar. The children will decide which
word best fits in each sentence and which sentence makes sense.
The fourth section is Study Skills. The children will answer questions on
the title page and cover of a book.
Please use the Practice, Phonics and Grammar books (packets) to help review
for this test.
Writing
The children will be assessed on writing complete sentences next
week. At this point, I will be looking for the sentence to begin with a
capital letter & end with a period , finger spaces between words and that
the sentence makes sense. We have been writing sentences in our journals
each week and the children are doing very well with this.
Handwriting
The children will be assessed on Handwriting this week. I will be
looking for proper letter formation and neatness.
