Week of December 10-14

Important Info:

We have welcomed ELFREDO to our class this week; our little class elf that has been surprising the students and me all week long.

Can you believe we only have 10 school days until winter break! Time is flying!!

We are already half way through the second quarter so please take a look at your child’s grades online. 

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. 

If you haven't already, please make sure to turn in your child's Tivoli permission slips. 

Math:

We are continuing our telling time unit. We have covered reading a clock, a.m. and p.m., and elapsed time. Please continue to review elapsed time at home because it is a difficult skill as we will be reviewing in class. The test on time will be tentatively Friday, December 14.

We will also start multiplication timed tests. We will officially start the week of the 17. Next week we will learn that anything times 0=0 and anything times 1 is the other number. A great way to learn multiplication is reviewing over and over the facts.

Reading: 

We have started working on the story Dogzilla. We will work on visualizing with this story as well as working with cause and effect, point of view, and author's purpose as we plow through the weeks ahead.

Spelling: 

We will be on List 12 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 wrapping up the Nouns unit this week. There will be a review on Nouns Monday and the final test will be on Friday, December 14.

 

Social Studies:

As a continuing study of Downers Grove, we have started learning about our local government. We are working out of our Social Studies textbook: chapter 12.

Science:

We will continue studying chapter 11 Matter. We have learned a lot of density, mass, volume and buoyancy.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!