Week of November 23-December 4

Important Dates:

11/23-11/25 - Days off for Thanksgiving

12/17 - 3rd grade bowling trip

12/18 - Last day before holiday break!

Welcome to Trimester 2!!   This blog will cover the 2 days next week and also the following full week.  

Happy Thanksgiving a little early!  May this time with your family and friends be joyful and filling :)

Coming up this week:

Reading & Language Arts:  Monday, students will need to bring in their artifacts for their "Biography Person Pouch" presentation. The presentations will be on Monday, November 30.
The week of 11/30 we're on to our new unit, What is Culture? We'll introduce the unit with a close read of the song "Circle of Life" from the Lion King.

Keep reading for 20 minutes a night! Reading logs are due on Monday 11/30.

Social Studies: We will be starting the Modern day Downers Grove unit next week. We are excited to learn more about it! Thank you parents who volunteered on our trip! I hope you had a great time and learned lots!

Science:   We’re on hiatus!

Math Class:  We continue Unit 3 this week, focusing on 3 digit subtraction story problems.  There will be a short checkpoint quiz on Monday, 11/23.  A study guide (with practice problems) is going home today.  We’ll then continue the unit the week of 11/30 with expanded notation and algorithm addition and subtraction.  

Have a great weekend!