What a great Thanksgiving break! I'm still eating food from Thursday and it's still tasting great. I can never get enough honey baked ham or gravy smothered turkey. Sorry to all you vegans out out there. I hope your Thanksgivings (and Black Friday shopping sprees) were full of family and fun.
Way to go Irish! 12-0! Going to the championship game! I know Sean Conley is feeling pretty good about now. Now it's a long way until January 7. Four weeks of school and all of Winter Break. Imagine all of the learning we are going to be doing between now and then.
For starters, we all hopefully spent some of the last four days reading our nonfiction books. Some time this week, we'll start our QBTs. You tell me when you want to go. I'll start assigning days towards the end of the week. You all also have a paper you need to complete with the nonfiction book. While the enriched students know what they need to do for the paper, the standard students will be finding out tomorrow. It'll involve a bit of research. I know you can't wait to find out.
Tomorrow and Tuesday we'll be taking some time going over a practice Acuity Performance Task. This was obviously created by the Acuity people. We were selected to pilot the task. The one we will look at tomorrow and Tuesday is the practice PT. In a couple weeks we will take an official one. Since it is a practice one, we will be going over it slowly, taking our time, discussing the prompts and the responses, scoring them together, making sure you understand what you need to do to be successful. Should be a lot of fun.
On Wednesday, we will be taking our Predictive B Acuity Test. This is our quarter 2 predictive test that will give us an idea how you will do on the ISTEP test this spring. It's not for a grade, but it is important to do the best that you can on it.
There's still some time left to get some reading in this weekend. Remember, I'm giving you a new book in the near future.
See you tomorrow.
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