March/April 2020
Important Dates
3/5/2020: Parent-Teacher Conferences (1:20-3:20; 5:30-8:00) – ½ day of school
3/25-26/2020: NYS ELA Test
4/1/2020: 3rdGrade Math Bee – 9:00AM – Auditorium
4/2/2020: 4thGrade Math Bee – 9:00AM - Auditorium
4/9–17/2020: Spring recess – no school
4/21-22/2020: NYS Math Test
3/5/2020: Parent-Teacher Conferences (1:20-3:20; 5:30-8:00) – ½ day of school
3/25-26/2020: NYS ELA Test
4/1/2020: 3rdGrade Math Bee – 9:00AM – Auditorium
4/2/2020: 4thGrade Math Bee – 9:00AM - Auditorium
4/9–17/2020: Spring recess – no school
4/21-22/2020: NYS Math Test
NYS Assessments: What Parents Need to Know
The NYS Assessments are administered to students in Grades 3-8 in English Language Arts & Mathematics. The Science Assessment is administered to 4th and 8th grades.
The annual tests (1) focus on the NYS learning standards, which guide classroom instruction in ELA and Math; (2) measure important real-world skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, and writing; (3) require students to explain their answers and describe and defend their reasoning.
The test results serve as an academic checkup to make sure your child is on track for the next grade. The results also measure progress over time so you can see your child’s year-to-year performance. Finally, the results provide can help pinpoint what skills your child has mastered and what skills your child is still developing.
Adapted from:www.nysed.gov
In preparation for NYS Tests, please make sure that your child gets a good night’s sleep the night before each day of the test and eats breakfast the next morning.
The NYS Assessments are administered to students in Grades 3-8 in English Language Arts & Mathematics. The Science Assessment is administered to 4th and 8th grades.
The annual tests (1) focus on the NYS learning standards, which guide classroom instruction in ELA and Math; (2) measure important real-world skills such as problem solving, critical thinking, and writing; (3) require students to explain their answers and describe and defend their reasoning.
The test results serve as an academic checkup to make sure your child is on track for the next grade. The results also measure progress over time so you can see your child’s year-to-year performance. Finally, the results provide can help pinpoint what skills your child has mastered and what skills your child is still developing.
Adapted from:www.nysed.gov
In preparation for NYS Tests, please make sure that your child gets a good night’s sleep the night before each day of the test and eats breakfast the next morning.
What are we learning?
Reading
Reading
- 3rd Grade: Students will be practicing reading skills through text structures and questions stemming fro the reading. Students are also learning to follow character through multiple texts
- 4th Grade: Students will learn about asking questions to themselves as they research a topic of choice.
- 3rd & 4th Grades: Students will learn how to gather and interpret information to then communicate what they’ve learned by explaining facts in writing. Students will transition to argument writing in April.
- 3rd Grade: Students are learning about fractions, their value and equivalent fractions. Later in March & April students will study time, measuring capacity and mass.
- 4th Grade: Students are using their multiplication knowledge to work with fractions and multiply whole numbers by mixed numbers. The students will learn about measure geometric shapes and angles later in March
- 3rd Grade: Students are continuing their learning on living organisms. They will determine which organisms are likely or less likely to survive in an environment.
- 4th Grade: Students will learn about the water cycle, the rock cycle. The students will study how rocks and fossils tell us about the way the Earth changes over time
- 3rd Grade: The culture, geography, and history of different countries will continue with the study of China and Peru. They will compare what they have learned about other countries and show the differences and similarities between the countries learned so far
- 4th Grade: Students are wrapping up their study of the different levels of government in the USA and NYS. They examine the meaning of freedom through the established rights freedoms and responsibilities of citizenship. Students will later examine the Westward Movement and Industrialization in the US.
