Thursday, September 27, 2007

CELDT out!

Today we finished the main part of the CELDT (California English Language Development Test) and I'm glad it's over! Mrs. Cha took all the fourth graders who are English Learners to administer this test on Tuesday and today. She had seven of my students and I had nine of her students. It was hard to get things really accomplished with so many people absent and a group of other students in the room, too.

But we do have somethings to boast about. The students have finally completed the eight "About Me" compositions we did to help them learn about Thinking Maps, and several have already bound them into our first books. They were quite proud of themselves, and when the other students saw the finished product they were suddenly incredibly motivated to finish their own!

We took a math test that we will grade tomorrow. We also prepared for doing a science experiment tomorrow. We continued listening to The Witches. We read an amusing play version of The Emperor's New Clothes and we read an account of the Dust Bowl of the 1930s. Students have a little homework related to this tonight.

Home Studies: (1) Continue independent reading and writing in logs. (2) Do "Sentence Chef," Storyworks, page 15. (3) Do the two Open Court worksheet pages. These are numbered 29-31 on the very bottom in small print. (4) Finally, do the Subtraction Practice worksheet.

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