Week 34: MILESTONES TESTING (4/30-5/4)

Milestones testing begins Monday with ELA 1. Please help your child get a good night's sleep all week and make sure they eat a good breakfast (either at home or at school). Thank you for your help and support! Tuesday is ELA 2 & 3, Wednesday is Math 1, andThursday is Math 2. We have some fun rewards planned each afternoon for students who DO THEIR BEST on the test! They are going to rock the Milestones!

Click HERE for all of this week's info.

Milestones ELA Practice Test

In today's folder, you will find a sample Milestones practice test that your child completed in class last week.  I have attached a pink rubric to the front of each one so that you can see your child's score.  Please go over this packet with your child!

NOTE: After scoring each response based on the rubric I created to get the GRAND TOTAL on the right (see below), I began to think that I was weighting the paragraphs too much.  I went back and re-scored each student using a percentage model to get the score on the left.  In the grade book, I recorded the highest of the two scores.

GRAND TOTAL SCORE (on the right): There were 7 multiple choice questions worth 5 points each (35% of total), a two-point constructed-response paragraph (22% of total), and a four-point constructed-response paragraph (43% of total).  I'm including screen shots here of exemplar responses to try to show the level of work expected of our 4th graders.

PERCENTAGE SCORE (on the left): Total correct divided by 13 (total possible).

Item 5 (two-point constructed-response paragraph) sample responses:

Item 8 (four-point constructed-response paragraph) sample responses:

Please contact Mrs. Dyer if you have any questions!  Thanks so much for being our partners in education and for all that you do for and with your child!

Milestones Study Guide

Click HERE to access the Georgia Department of Education's Grade 4 Parent/Student Milestones study guide.  (It's a 128-page PDF so it may take a few moments to access.)

Week 33: April 23-27, 2018

These dates are on the weekly info sheet, but we thought it might be helpful to highlight them here.

4/24-5/3 Milestones testing window

4/24 Please sign & return progress report.

4/26 Book Club Lunch

4/30 4th Grade ELA 1

5/1    4th Grade ELA 2 & 3

5/2    4th Grade Math 1

5/3    4th Grade Math 2

5/11 GMRC (Experiment Station) field trip;

          Box Tops deadline;  Sno Cone sales $1 (5th

             fundraiser)

5/15 4th Grade end-of-year party @ Meeks Park

          (10-1)

5/17 4th Grade “Spring Fling”

5/18 Box Tops Reward

5/23 4th Field Day (12-2)

5/25 Last day of school/early release!

Click HERE for the entire weekly info sheet for Week 33!

Week 32: April 16-20

*Pizza snack order forms are due no later than this Thursday, 4/19!

Click HERE to view this week's Weekly Info sheet.  Spelling and vocabulary words are also available on SpellingCity.com.