The SAGE test is coming up soon!  Please get out your calendar and get these important dates marked.  As you know we have spring break coming up, the students are out of school from March 29th-April 6th.  Well, bright and early Monday morning, the 7th of April, our class will be testing on their essay questions.  I would ask that you make certain your child is ready to be back in the swing of things come Monday morning.  Make certain they get to bed early and have a good breakfast.  Students generally have a hard time coming back from breaks and getting right back into the swing, so I ask for your extra awareness in helping them be ready for this important day.  We then have our next testing day  Thursday April 10th, this will be their language portion.  We will finish up with math on Wednesday April 16th.

As you may be aware, I was unable to get iXL accounts for all of our third grade.  I have opted to use the SAGE formative practice questions in replacement.  This is a little more time intensive to set up, and a little limiting, but is more directly linked to what the students may see on the test.  Last week was the first time the students have logged in.  This is a learning curve do to the fact this is the baseline year.  We will be focusing hard the next few weeks on applying the knowledge they have and being able to apply it to the context of the questions they are seeing.  The test is very interactive, they draw figures, fill in graphs, write own equations, etc.   They have been doing this type of work on the their Daily Written Math for the past several months and now will be applying it onto the computer in the test format.

Our work the next few weeks will be working heavily on our opinion and informative essay questions.  If you have any further questions, please let me know.  I will be sending home log in information for SAGE shortly.