30 April – 4 May
A hard copy of the testing schedule was handed out to each child last week. Here is a further breakdown of the dates and times for the specific tests:Monday – Language at 9am for 30min. Reading at10:15am for two 30min sessions.Tuesday – Language Mechanics and Spelling starting at 8:30am for two 15 minute sessions. 1/2 of the Cognitive Test which focuses on sequences, analogies and quantitive reasoning. This will be an hour session.Wednesday – Math starting at 8:25am for 1hour and 10minutes. Bible at11:00am for 25minutes.Thursday – Science starting at 8:30am for 40minutes. Word Analysis and Vocabulary starting at 10:00am for two 15minute sessions.Friday – Math Computation starting at 8:30am for 20minutes. Second 1/2 of the Cognitive Test focusing on verbal reasoning. This will start at 10:00am and go for 40minutes.HomeworkThere will be a lighter homework load this week due to the amount of TerraNova testing. After school students will complete Spelling Lesson 27 p156-161 for Thursday 3rd of April. All other students are encouraged to use online resources such as Mathletics, Spellodrome, http://education.jlab.org/solquiz/index.html for onlne Virginia State Standard Practice Tests in Math and Science, or http://www.funtrivia.com/quizzes/for_children/topics_for_kids/bible_for_kids.html for Bible general knowledge quizzes or other general knowledge quizzes. The important thing for each night this week is to do a little bit of revision but then rest well to be ready for the next day’s tests.