I apologize for not updating the blog last week, I got out of my routine after our week off. Please feel free to contact me with any questions or concerns you have if I do forget again in the future.
For this week and future weeks we will be changing our spelling test day. We do multiple assessments on Fridays and it can be a lot for the students. We like to use our assessments to help the students to see what they are doing well and what they need to work on. With so many assessments in one day it's been difficult to be able to look at assessments with the students. So, in an effort to cut down on assessments in the same day and to make them more meaningful for students, we will be moving spelling tests to Thursdays. Starting this week, for the rest of the school year, weekly spelling tests will be given on Thursday instead of Friday. I appreciate your help with preparing your child for the test a day earlier. Please let me know if you have any questions about this.
We will be having math homework 4.4 on Wednesday and 4.5 on Thursday. Both of these homework sheets are practice with measuring in inches. There is a paper ruler attached at the bottom that you can cut out to use. However if you do have a regular ruler at home this may be easier to use in order to complete the assignments. We have only been measuring to the nearest full and half inch. Do not worry about measuring more accurately than that. This is a skill that we are introducing for the first time in first grade this week, so your child might need some help reading the ruler.
Thank you for all that you do for your child. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.
