FCAT will be here in 12 DAYS!!!

But, in Room 138 that is NOT reason to panic. We have been working all year on skills and targets that will help us be successful on this test.

There are a few things that you can do at home to help your child-
1. FCAT Explorer is a FREE program for your student. They can work on Math and Science for 5th grade. They can also work in 4th or 6th grade Reading. These questions are structured to represent question stems of the actual FCAT.

2. Stamina - Make sure your child is really hitting their nightly reading. This will assure that your child is able to meet and exceed their personal FCAT challenge.

3. Variety of reading - spend these next few weeks reading a variety of materials with your child. Poetry, cookbooks, how-to books, biographies, memoirs, newspapers, magazines, maps, graphs, etc. The FCAT uses both fiction and nonfiction texts.

It is important that your student is at school everyday! Most of our work is instructed through the classroom and missing a day is really missing A LOT!!!!