November 3-7

Important:

Please continue to sign your child's assignment books.

Thank you to those of you who have donated to the treasure chest! We really appreciate it! If you would like to donate extra toys/goodies from home to our treasure chest; that would be greatly appreciate it!

No school Monday 11/3

No School Tuesday 11/4

Spelling:There will be no spelling this week due to the 2 days off.

ELA:  We will continue centers. The students move to different groups. At the teacher table students will learn a skill. This week we will focus on nouns in the subject and writing singular, plural, and common nouns. We will then use our reading of Ivan to find nouns.

Social Studies:  We have begun our Downers Grove unit and will continue learning about the history of Pierce Downer.

Science: We will finish up with chapter 9 lesson 1 next week!

Math Class (Only for students in MY MATH CLASS):  We will continue with chapter 3. We will focus on subtracting across zeros. We will be having a subtracting across zeros checkpoint on Friday.

Have a wonderful 4 day WEEKEND!

October 27-31

Important:

Please continue to sign your child's assignment books.

Thank you to those of you who have donated to the treasure chest! We really appreciate it! If you would like to donate extra toys/goodies from home to our treasure chest; that would be greatly appreciate it!

Halloween Party on Friday 10/31. Please have your child bring their costume in a bag to school. We will change into the costumes at 12:50. The costumes should be something they can slip over their clothes as well as no weapons.

Spelling:There will be no spelling pretest or test for the week of Halloween. There will just be some Halloween activities for the students to work on.

ELA:  We will continue centers. The students move to different groups. At the teacher table students will learn a skill. This week we will focus on nouns, common and proper, and plural nouns. We will then use our reading of Ivan to find nouns.

Social Studies:  We have begun our Downers Grove unit and will continue learning about the history of Pierce Downer.

Science: We will start chapter 9-the water cycle this week. We will begin with lesson one.

Math Class (Only for students in MY MATH CLASS):  We have started our 3 unit-addition and subtraction. Students have done a great job so far with addition.

Have a wonderful WEEKEND!

October 14-17

Please continue to sign your child's assignment books.

Thank you to those of you who have donated to the treasure chest! We really appreciate it! If you would like to donate extra toys/goodies from home to our treasure chest; that would be greatly appreciate it!

No school  Monday 10/13

Spelling: (Lesson 8)  The pretest will be on Tuesday and the final test will be on Friday. If your child gets 0, 1, or 2 wrong they will be challenge and have two activities. If they get more than do they will have the regular work. All homework is due on Friday.

ELA:  We will continue centers. The students move to different groups. In one group students are continuing to Read Ivan. In a different group, students will be reading closely with different text. In the last groups students are using their descriptive and persuasive writing to get a monster to buy their haunted house.

Social Studies:  We have begun our Downers Grove unit and will continue learning about the history of Pierce Downer.

Science: We will wrap up chapter 4 this week and there will be a final chapter test on chapter 4 on Tuesday 10/21.

Math Class (Only for students in MY MATH CLASS):  We will be testing on chapter 2 on Wednesday 10/15. The tests are challenging, so please be reviewing the study guide with your child at home. We will spend all Tuesday reviewing for the test.

October 6-10

Important:

Please continue to sign your child's assignment books.

Thank you to those of you who have donated to the treasure chest! We really appreciate it! If you would like to donate extra toys/goodies from home to our treasure chest; that would be greatly appreciate it!

Early Dismissal October 10th at 11:00

Zoo permission slips: Please have them turned in by 10/8. I have many requests for chaperones and I will try to take as many as we can.

Spelling: (Lesson 7)  The pretest will be on Monday and the final test will be on Friday. If your child gets 0, 1, or 2 wrong they will be challenge and have two activities. If they get more than do they will have the regular work. All homework is due on Friday.

ELA:  We are doing centers. The students move to different groups. In one group students are continuing to Read Ivan. In a different group, students are reading Two Days in May and Night of the Pufflings and related the stories to our big idea of: Standing up for what you believe in. In the last groups students are using their descriptive and persuasive writing to get a monster to buy their haunted house.

Social Studies:  We will start our new unit on Downers Grove! This is a very fun unit for students.

Science: We will start chapter 4 lesson 4 this week. The test will be the following week.  

Math Class (Only for students in MY MATH CLASS):  We have started unit 2. We will be working on lessons number sense with addition and subtraction. The test will be some time next week!