October 14-18

Important:
Please continue to sign your child's assignment books.
If you would like to donate extra toys/goodies from home to our treasure chest; that would be greatly appreciate it!
No School Monday, October 14.
Book Fair October 17^th.
Early dismissal at 11:00 Thursday, October 24

The PTO is selling coupon books this year to help fund the purchase of tablets for our students.  If you wish to purchase a book, please send in $25 made payable to the Prairieview PTO.  If you do not wish to buy the book, please send it back with your student.  The deadline is October 29th.  The books have some great local coupons in them and really pay for themselves while the school gets half the money of all books sold!  The grade that sells the most books (15 books minimum) will get a movie and a treat on Tuesday, November 26th and each grade level student who sells the most books (5 book minimum) will get a $100 Target gift card!  Please contact Pam Topp (pam_topp@yahoo.com) or Maureen Gibbons (maureen.gibbons@comcast.net) if you have questions or would like more books to sell.  There are some great holiday shopping discounts available....take a look!!!!

Math
We have finished addition!! We will be working this week on subtraction! Please be reviewing the addition and subtraction facts to help them become quicker at facts.

Spelling
We will be on List 8 this week. The Pretest is on Tuesday and the final test will be on Friday. If your child gets 0,1, or 2 wrong on the pretest they will have 1 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 one assigned activities because of the 4 day week)  The homework is due on Thursday.

Reading

We will continue using Daily 5 this week while incorporating the teacher table. At this table, we will be using the story Mulan to help us infer. There will be a vocabulary quiz over the words from Mulan on Friday 10/18.

English
We have started our Haunted House descriptive writing unit and will continue with it this week. We will be writing a paragraph describing a monster and having a friend draw it based on our description. This will help us to use description in writing. We will also be starting the rough draft of the final project, which is to describe a haunted house.

Social Studies

We have finished our study of Maps and the world. We will be switching gears and start learning about the good old Downers Grove. We will start with the history of Downers Grove and the founder. This is one of the favorite units we study in Social Studies.
Science
We will be finishing Chapter 4: Ecosystems with a test on Wednesday, 10/17. Please be reviewing the study guide with your child.

Have a great three day weekend!


Mystery Blog Question! (this is optional)

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