Dear Parents,
First of all, I want to thank very much all parents who remembered me in such a thoughtful way on my 25th anniversary at OLQM. Your kindness and generosity is very much appreciated. I hope you all had a fine Easter and a nice break.
Before the break I reminded all fourth grade students that they would be taking the NYS ELA Exam on the same week of their return and showed them review pages in Speller and web sites to help with review and to practice in the booklets given to them in Ms. Bagley's class. Below I have listed the information again:
*access and practice doing past NYS Tests on
www.p12.nysed.gov/osa/english/ela-ei.html
*review all rules for use of capitalization and punctuation in Speller
text pp. 247 to 254
*practice using different parts of speech on Grammar Gorillas (advanced)
on www.funbrain.com
*review use of different graphic organizers in the back pages of the LA
Workbook
*practice Grammar Blast on on www.eduplace.com/kids/hme
*google POWER PROOFREADING for sites from www. eduplace... and
www.harcourtschool... and practice all activities
According to schedule, the exams will be given on Wed. and Thurs.and Fri. this week. I also distributed Religion notes on sheets to both third and fourth graders with lots of vocabulary and sample essay questions to practice for the Archdiocesan exams scheduled for June.
I have added new pictures to the blog. Two of these are dated to remind you that second graders are scheduled to celebrate First Reconciliation at 1:00 on Wed., May 11th and third graders will be celebrating First Holy Communion at 1:00 on Sun., May 22nd. In case there is a change, I will let you know as soon as possible.
Dismissal this Friday is at 12:00. Please see below for this week's homework and be sure to look under the correct grade:
FOURTH GRADE:
5/3 - Spel. - Study pp. 236, 239, 241, 242 for Spelling test on Fri.
*** For NYS exam beginning tomorrow, students should review capitalization and punctuation rules in Speller pp. 247 to 252. For essay writing tips go to www.eduplace.com/kids/hme. Click on K-5. Then click on Evaluation Station Grade 4 (Units 8 to 13). Excellent practice is also provided on Grammar Blast and Power Proofreading on same web site.
5/5 - Rel. - Review Religion notes on sheets for test next week.
THIRD GRADE:
5/3 - Spel. - Study pp. 238, 239, 240, 246 for Spelling test on Thurs.
5/5 - Rel. - Review Religion notes on sheets for test next week.
SECOND GRADE:
5/3 - Spel. - Study pp. 252, 255, 257, 258 for Spelling test on Fri.
5/5 - LA - LA test on Thurs. Review Speller pp. 259 to 261.
