4 9 10 Newsletter
4 9 10 Newsletter
ELEMENTARY
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The Brubaker Buzz
I S S U E 2 6 M A R C H 1 8 , 2 0 1 0
BREAK!
YOU’VE
A Look Back
EARNED
IT! We experienced our Today the students
first taste of MAP testing this got a few minutes to develop
week. You should give your their own game or become an
child a hug, because they artist. Most of them devel-
worked extremely hard and oped board games. That’s a
showed a lot of perseverance great way to boost creativity
this week. As with anything and higher level thinking
new, there’s always a bit of skills.
skepticism involved. After
the first day, the students real- We’ll be using this
ized that there wasn’t any- activity next week to review
thing too scary about the test. for our math MAP.
It really is everything that Classroom Rule:
Have a fabulous
they already knew. I am very
proud of the effort and behav-
weekend! Hang tough! Sometimes
ior this week. life isn't always fun or
exciting. But you can
The only extra ac-
make it better.
tivities that we did were, re-
viewing and playing a couple MAP Rule
of really cool games on the Try your hardest and use
Smartboard. your strategies.
DATES TO
REMEMBER
MAP Testing
MAP testing is ap- (Tues—Thurs) our classroom.
Per-per-per proaching. The dates
Per-perseverance Please arrange any ap- Thanks for your help
that 3rd grade will be
Believe in pointments that you with this!
yourself and tesing are:
may have around those
don't give up. days. It’s important
Comm. Arts—April 6-
You can do it! that students are able to
9 (Tues—Fri)
take the test in a famil-
Math—April 13 –15 iar atmosphere, like