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Week of March 30, 2015







                         FYI

*       March 31- Data Night
*       April 1- Report cards go home
*       April 2- Honors Program for 3rd nine weeks
*       April 3- No School
*       April 11 Landscape Day 9-Noon
*       April 16- Multicultural Night






This Week in our Class


Reading- As we review for TCAP, we will focus on answering text dependent questions, word meanings of multi-meaning words in context, book parts, and reference materials
English- Students will focus on editing sentences and labeling parts of sentences.
Math – We will review for TCAP with a focus on elapsed time, fractions, and reading data on charts and tables
Science- We will review for TCAP with a focus on life science, physical science, and earth and space science while placing an emphasis on 







 
 


Data Night- March 31st at 5:30.

TCAP will be taken the week of April 28!

Please mark your calendars and plan on joining us for a look at your child’s test scores from the Discovery Education test C.
We will go over the reports with you, and you will be able to see your child’s areas of strengths and any weaknesses that may need extra work. We will use these results to identify ways to best prepare your child for TCAP. Hope to see you then!!!



Reference Materials
n  An atlas is a book of maps. If you want to find a specific place, street, road, city, or state
n  An encyclopedia is used when someone wants to find information about a person, place, or thing.
n  You will find the meaning of words in a dictionary
n  In a thesaurus, you will find synonyms and antonyms for words.
n  An almanac is a book of facts. It lists Presidents, sport stats, populations, firsts; it tracks weather conditions; it shows astronomical info such as moon phases, eclipses, sunrise, sunset; it has calendars; it is published annually




                               

Book Parts
Cover-shows the title, author, and illustrator
Title page shows the title, author, publisher, illustrator
Table of contents is found in the front of the book. It tells the names of chapters within book and page number where each chapter begins
Glossary is found in the back and gives meanings of words used in the book
Index is found in the back and gives alphabetical list of topics in the book and page/s where topic may be found

 


 
 










Great sites to visit at home for TCAP review…
http://tncore.org/home.aspx
http://www.tn.gov/education/
http://archive.jc-schools.net/dynamic/TCAP_review.htm






 

 






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