Week of December 3-7

Important Info:

We had a GREEEEEAT Downers Grove Field Trip! Thank you to all the parents who made it possible and everyone who was willing to help! Here are a few pictures of our first field trip!

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 have started our time unit. It has been great learning how to read an analog clock! We will continue working with time. You can expect a test over time sometime the week of December 9^th. Please continue to study math facts with your child.

Reading: 

We will finish up The Keeping Quilt with the vocab test on Wednesday. Thank you to Mrs. Vanni for coming in having a presentation on quilting. A new skill will be added next week: Evaluate & Visualize.

We will read Dogzilla from our reading textbook.

Spelling: 

We will be on List 11 this week. The Pretest is on Monday and the final test will be on Friday. If your child gets 0,1, or 2 wrong on the pretest they will have 2 challenge activities and the cursive sheet, they have the option to take the test on Friday. If they get more than 2 words wrong, they will have the regular work. (Cursive sheet and two assigned activities) The homework is due on Thursday.

English:

We are will continue on Unit 2: Nouns. We will concentrate on lesson 8 and 9.

Social Studies:

We have already begun our study of the current Downers Grove and it was so cool to have the opportunity to go to DG and see all that we have learned. There is a quiz on Modern Day DG on Tuesday 12/4. This will include a couple questions about the history as well.

Science:

We have started chapter 11-MATTER!!! Matter Matters~! We will be focusing on lesson 2 in class. 

Have a wonderful warm weekend…it may be our last for awhile!