Dear Parents,
Please remember that dismissal is at 12:00 this Friday. On Wednesday, students from ALL three grades took their Final Religion Exam so there will be NO more tests in this subject. On Wednesday also students from ALL grades received their three page doubled sided Review Notes for their ELA Final Exam which is scheduled for June 18th. Although the study guides are extensive, if students begin NOW, there is enough time for review. Besides a few of the usual matching, true/false, multiple choice, completion, and short response questions, students will be required to answer a few questions based on reading passages, and written responses to TWO essay questions (which will be worth 15 point each).
All students should keep these sheets in the front panel of their homework folder and all students need to bring this study guide to class EVERY DAY. You may make and keep a copy at home if you wish because no other copies will be provided. I will be reviewing the work on these sheets in class starting tomorrow. I strongly suggest that students work on ONE UNIT at a time looking up information in their ELA notebook. Titles and authors of books, stories, poems were purposely provided throughout the year so students can easily "google" for the information. Links to websites we used have been provided either on my homework sites or on my lesson plans. Please remember an essays for 2nd grade requires one paragraph, for 3rd two paragraphs, and for 4th three paragraphs of 5-6 sentences per paragraph. Students will be allowed to choose two out of five essay questions. The questions will be based on the twelve examples provided in the study guide. Correct word usage, sentence structure, capitalization, punctuation, clarity of explanation is ALL part of writing a good essay so students need to take all that into consideration. homework This week I will also be sending home past corrected ELA tests and quizzes so students may review from these as well.
HOMEWORK FOR 2nd, 3rd. AND 4th: ALL STUDENTS NEED TO STUDY THE VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR (IF LISTED) FOR UNIT ONE ON THE REVIEW SHEET (REFER TO BOTH NOTEBOOK AND TEST FOLDERS) AND ANSWER BOTH ESSAY QUESTIONS ON LOOSELEAF. A THOROUGH REVIEW OF UNIT 1 WAS DONE WITH EACH CLASS TODAY INCLUDING DISCUSSIONS ON ESSAY WORK!
*Second graders are assigned to create their own two poems based on class poems we worked on in class. Remember that poems are not to be written in paragraph form so follow format taught in class and copied in the first few pages of their notebook.
