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Text by Philipp In the last few weeks our school started to prepare for MAP testing. What is MAP testing? MAP testing is a program to see our academic progress. Also, it is very important. Mrs. Noll, our director, explains why it is so important. “MAP testing is important because through the testing we can find out how each student is growing and changing during the year. MAP testing shows us in the three subject areas the growth of students. This helps teachers plan units to meet the needs to students. It is important also because teachers may look at each student’s strengths and weaknesses to discover what needs to be reviewed or retaught during the year,” said Mrs. Noll.
MAP testing is done on computers. Each test has multiple choice questions with four or five options for answers. In the Reading MAP test there were 42 questions, while in the Math and Language Usage tests there were 52 questions. When asked why our scores improved, Aziza, a fifth grade student responded, “Well, because since we did it in the beginning of the year we didn’t learn much because it was the beginning of the year and we improved since the two MAP tests.” Students did do a lot of writing, reading, and math, so it is obvious that there would be good progress. The youngest children in our school doing MAP testing are the kindergarten children. The 5YO teacher, Ms. Gartner, explained how younger students do MAP testing. “We listen to the question and it is multiple choice. In our math test there are pictures, at the end a dog barks then we know that we are finished. “Of course some questions are hard and some easier. That is the same always. “Because of a certain reasons that I cannot explain I would think I had done well, I was nervous at first, but as I walked in weight lifted off my shoulders.” This is how Thomas a fifth grade boy felt about MAP testing. The teacher that is in charge of MAP testing is Mr. Noll. He tells us the instructions and answers questions if we have any. Everyone felt differently about the test. Another fifth grade boy called Anton said, “I feel like I want to do really good. There were easy questions and I feel like that was very easy for me. And after that I like I thought I finished it and I feel relieved.” When asked why he thinks that MAP testing is formatted they way they are, Tom, another fifth grade boy, replied, ”I think it’s formatted like this because many students around the world have to do it so they do half of it and because they have three different tests.” Now finally MAP testing is over, until next year. Text by Anton and Sophia Have you ever seen a movie with really slow parts? These parts are in something called slow motion. But not only movies can use slow motion, writing can as well! This week we are writing slow motion paragraphs to describe a moment in our lives. Using our five senses we describe important details and actions in that event. Here are two examples of slow motion writing. Enjoy. Breaking a Foot By Sophia I sneezed. Snot came dripping down from my nose. Quickly, I paused the loud music I had been listening to. I ran down the hall. I could feel the freezing floor under my bare feet. I was putting my left foot down. Then my right foot. Then I put down my left foot. Suddenly, the side of my foot gave away. Round twisted my foot, accompanied by a loud crack sound. Pain flooded my body. I plonked down onto the hard, cold floor unable to walk any further. Tears filled my eyes. Soon, I was crying. My parents rushed upstairs. Every footstep that I could hear on the stairs meant the world to me. I knew they could help me. With the help of my dad I limped to the bath. The side of my foot was already the size of a mandarin! While my mom ran my foot under cold water my dad called the ambulance. I waited. Every second my foot was getting redder and redder. Each time my heart beat, my foot throbbed. It was a horrible feeling of pain. The minutes felt like hours. Soon, the ambulance arrived. I was relieved. Now I would get the proper treatment. the hockey gameBy Anton It’s our last 30 seconds of our hockey game. I looked around and see scared faces of the players, because we are playing against very good team. The display shows the score, 1:0 for our team. I look to my right and I see Eddy looking very tired and sweaty. The coach turns to my side and orders me to replace Eddy. I jumped over the board and try to go really fast to take my place. All the players are in opposite group team. Their best player takes a puck and starts to skate. He is really fast and I try to get him, but he is faster than me. I became angry. I start to skate faster and faster. Then I jumped to the puck and try to get it. Our Goalkeeper looks very scared, because he thinks that he is going to lose this puck and score will be 1:1. Then finally I get the puck. I am so happy, because I saved our team and we won! Every one cheers and I can see our players excited and smiling.
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