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Mueller Messenger

Volume 3, Issue 2 January 14, 2010

What’s New?
MATHEWS RAP the MAP!!!
January Character Trait is
Integrity!! Reaching for Awesome Performance on the
Doing what is right even when no MAP!!!
one is watching!! 
MAP testing is quickly approaching, and it is our goal to get the
kids excited to “Show What They Know” on the upcoming test.
Weekly Quizzes & Work We are hoping to achieve this goal with Mathews RAP THE
Friday ~ Math Check Up, Spelling Test, Reading MAP! We’ll use a hip-hop theme as we prepare and celebrate.
Skill Assessment Each week we will focus on a test-taking strategy and a testing
Daily- Reading towards 100 minutes for the week, vocabulary word. This will begin the week of January 24th.
DLR

Future Plans! MAP Mania


Jan. 17th No School-Martin Luther Over the next eight weeks, we will be focusing on MAP review
King Jr. Day (2ND Snow Day) and preparation. One way we do that is through MAP Mania.
Jan. 25th Boot Camp This is done on Fridays only and will continue through March
Jan. 27th Tropical Thursday 25th. Students are split up between four of the 4th grade
Feb. 11th Valentines Parties classrooms and the 4th grade teachers rotate through the
Feb. 15th Spring Pictures rooms, teaching lessons that are focused on MAP related skills.
Feb. 15th, 17th,Parent/Teacher We are still able to fit in our weekly Working With Words quiz
Conferences and Math Check Up, but our schedule is a little different than
Feb. 18 th No School (3rd Snow Day) normal. This time is extremely beneficial in preparing your
Feb. 21st No School child to do their best on the MAP test. Thanks for your
Mar. 10 th End of 3rd quarter/PBS support!! 
Big Event
Mar. 14th-18th Spring Break
Mar. 29th Boot Camp
This week’s Merit Award Winner is:
Mar. 30th-Apr. 8th MAP Testing 
T.J. Wright

What’s Coming Up?


Reading: Questioning
Writing: Effective Endings
Working With Words: buy, who, doesn’t, deodorize, invasion, suddenly, lately, carefully, truthfully,
hopefully Prefix: de- Suffix: -ize, -sion
Math: 3-D Geometry
Science: Mixtures and Solutions

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