Week of the 19 and 20th, and also Nov. 26-30

Important Info:

This blog is for Monday and Tuesday (11/19-11/20) as well as the following week…November 26-30.

Happy Thanksgiving! I am so thankful for so many things in my life. I hope this holiday you can share one thing you are thankful for with your family!

Downers Grove Field Trip: Is November 29, 2012 from 9:00 to 2:15. A maximum of $10.00 could be brought for shopping purposes after lunch. If you are not chaperoning the trip, you can still come to the restaurant and enjoy pizza with us. (Just pay separately) 

Thank you to the students who donated to the treasure chest this week! If you would like to donate to the treasure chest, that would be very helpful.

Math:

We are working on money! The test will be Monday, November 19. We will start our chapter on time Monday, November 26^th.

Reading: 

We will be starting our next reading skill, self-questioning. As readers, we need to be able to stop during our reading and ask ourselves pertinent questions which will help us gain a better understanding of the text. Our story will be from the basal. It is called The Keeping Quilt.

Spelling: 

There will be no spelling next week 11/19-11/20. We will resume Spelling the week of the 26^th, with list 10. The pretest will be on Monday. The homework is due on Thursday and the test will be on Friday.

English:

We are will continue on Unit 2: Nouns. We will concentrate on lesson 5-7.

Social Studies:

We are finished with our history of Downers Grove unit.  We will begin learning about Modern Day Downers Grove and things that are in our town. The quiz over modern day will tentatively be Friday, November 30.

Science:

We are almost done with Chapter 4 Ecosystems. The chapter 4 test will be Tuesday, November 20. We will then start chapter 11- Matter!

I hope everyone really enjoys their Thanksgiving break and has a lot of time with their families!