California Star Testing This Week

Last week we pulled baby carrots out of our garden to make more room for the main crop to grow.

CST, or California Star Test
The California Star tests starts this week.  As I mentioned last week, make sure your students get plenty of sleep each evening and a good breakfast every morning.  Your students are definitely prepared and ready, I've been very impressed in our review sessions.

I will continue to give homework this week but I will make sure it is on the light side.  If you need to skip the homework in order to get your student to bed early, please do.

Writing Journal
I still have the journals with me now, I will send them home tomorrow.  This week I want your students to complete only two entries.  For one of the entries I will send home a question about the Cinderella stories we are reading in class.

Art, Music
To accommodate testing, art and music lessons with Mrs. Yzaguirre and Mrs. Tang have been moved to Thursday afternoons for the next two weeks.

Curriculum Overview

Literacy - Examine how cultural values are reflected in fiction.  Read different retellings of the story of Cinderella.  Compare their similarities and differences.

Math - Division, Review

Writing - Writing about the Cinderella stories we are reading.  Our writing may include the conflicts driving the stories and the feeling the characters have at different points in the books.

Language Conventions and Word Study - Plurals, Suffixes, Review

In-Class Art - A Study of Vincent Van Gogh