What a week...

     This was a fairly busy week for us and we will have an equally as busy week next week.  On Monday, your child will take his/her first math assessment.  This will be a mid-module quiz on what we have covered, so far, in math.  The quiz will include number in expanded & standard form, rounding & rounding in word problems & comparing numbers.    On Tuesday, we will have our first round of MAP (Measures of Academic Progress) Testing.  This test will be for reading and will simply be a gauge of where your child is starting out this school year.  On the following Tuesday, we will take the math portion of MAP.  I will share both scores with you at our conference, as well as their PASS scores from May.  On Wednesday, your child will take the Native American unit assessment and Interim Reports will go home on Thursday.  
    In social studies, after our Native American Unit, we will start to learn about early European Explorers and their impact on Native Americans.  In math, we will start with multi-digit addition problems and move on to multi-digit subtraction problems.  In reading, we will start to focus on story elements next week and in writing, finish writing the legends that were started this week.  Next Thursday is also our first Sonic Night (5-8 p.m.) of the school year.  If you can, bring your family out to the Sonic on Hardscrabble to enjoy dinner and spend some time with some other Beacon families. 
  Below, you'll find some pictures of our class visiting their book buddies earlier today.