Sadowski update 12/8/14... Test date change

Due to the fact that many students are leaving on vacation early next week, I have moved the test back to Tuesday, December 16th.

   For those students who are going to be gone all week next week, they may take the test on Friday.

  They received their review sheets today. If they read this over every day between now and the test they should do just fine.

On Wednesday, December 17th all 5th grade students will have their final test over their 4 month long Forces and Motion Unit. 

I will be sending home a review sheet at the beginning of next week with EVERYTHING that they will need to know and to study to do well on this test. The district is now requiring 90% of our students to achieve an 80% or better on these tests, so we WILL be doing quite a bit of review over the next week and a half to get them ready for this test.

   Students that do not achieve 80 % will need to come in at recesses for review lessons with me on the areas that they scored poorly in, and then will need to retake the test.  And based on what I see in class daily, NO ONE should be clueless as to what we've been studying as we've gone over these concepts daily and weekly!

If you have any questions while helping your child review and prep for this test, don't hesitate to call or email me.

Orange books will also be handed in and graded before Christmas break. I will be checking them at the beginning of next week to ensure that pages that are supposed to be completed are. If the are not, I'll send you an email letting you know that they should be bringing their books home and what lessons that they will need to finish. 

  I can’t believe I forgot to send home the spelling list for the kids week!  I’ll be sure to include next weeks at the bottom of this email.

Some upcoming events in the next couple of weeks.

Next week December 11^th, is the store shopping for gifts. This is a store they set up for the kids to come down and shop for gifts for other members of their family.

Our time slot is 1:45 – 2:00. This is NOT  required! I’ve already asked for ski trip money this month and I know this stuff adds up quick.

Next, on Tuesday, December 16^th we’ll be walking to Generous Hands to pack backpacks and to design Christmas bags and cards for donations. We’ll plan on leaving after recess and will return before the busses roll. If this sounds like fun to you , you are more than welcome to join us!  Make sure you have your student watch the weather and dress appropriately. It could be 50 degrees or snowing again by then so who knows!

Christmas party is still on the 18^th.  You can bring or donate any treat or drink that you would like to. We’re still working on the activities.

I talked to a few of you at conferences regarding your frustration with the new Eureka Math.  As of right now, there is a tentative date set for a Math night for parents at the PAC (performing arts Center) for January 22^nd. Times and details are still being worked out….but it will feature different stations with each grade level showing and teaching some of the skills and concepts your child is learning that are so foreign to the way that we learned.  If you have multiple children at Sunset you should be able to visit each grade level station.   I’ll let you now more when I know more.

Spelling list for this week is as follows:

Prerecorded

Reappear

Postscript

Cooperate

Prehistoric

Posttest

Coauthors

Recharge

Precaution

Postwar

Rejoin

Coexist

Prefix

Coworker

Reform

Prepaid

Refresh

Postdate

Reenter

reclaim