Happy Spring!

Hard to believe it is already the end of third quarter! The past few weeks I have been really focused on MCA prep with my 3rd graders as it is their first time taking the MCA's. As a team, we created skill and activity work based off of the questions we knew would have more focus on the tests. It seems to be working well teaching the mini-lesson/skill as a whole group and then having students complete some independently. This has given me the opportunity to work with various small groups further on the skills, as needed. This has been different than my other guided reading groups, but fits with our mini-lessons and student's needs currently. I have also found that students who I thought might have been more confident in a skill are not as much when they are practicing it in more of a formal/test-like scenario.