Week of November 20-27

Today marks the end of Trimester 1. What a wonderful first one-third of the year we’ve had!!  Grades will be finalized soon. I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving break with your families.  This blog will include information for the two days next week and also the following week. Happy Thanksgiving!!

Coming Up the Next 2 Weeks:

Spelling:   New sorts will go home on Monday, November 27th and the test will be on December 8th.  

Reading & Language Arts:   We’ll finish up Myths.  We’ll also be focusing on verbs.  Keep track of those reading minutes for November!  The November log is due on or before 11/30.  A new one for December will be going home on December 1st.

Social Science: We will continue our study of plants in Mystery Science. Ask your child something they learned so far!

Mrs. Mandru's Math Class:  We’re finishing up Unit 3 on 3 digit addition and subtraction.  There will be a Unit 3 assessment on Thursday 11/30.  The study guide went home already and is due back on Monday 11/20.

Important Dates:  

11/22-11/24 - Thanksgiving break

12/5 - Early Dismissal (11:00)

12/21 - Last day of school before Winter Break

Week of November 13-17

Coming Up Next Week:

Thank you to our volunteers who came on our DG trip! We had a blast!

Friday is the end of Trimester one! Time is flying this year!

Spelling:   We are working on our sorts and menu activities in class. The test will be on 11/17. We will be working on the activities in class.

Reading & Language Arts:  We will continue our study on Myths by reading about King Midas. We will also continue to review our reading skills of cause and effect and sequencing. For language arts, we will be focusing on verbs this week!

For writing: Students will be bringing home a blank turkey and will need to "disguise their turkey". The turkey will be due back on Wednesday 11/15. We will be doing an informational writing piece in school next week about how to disguise your turkey and why the farmer shouldn't eat him.

Please make sure your child is reading! November logs are due on or before November 30.

Social Science:  We have finished up learning about Downers Grove and had a fabulous field trip! We love putting our learning into action! We will be switching over to science this week. We will be starting a unit called Power of Plants!

Mrs. Mandru's Math Class: We are deep into our unit on rounding and multi-digit addition and subtraction. We have the test scheduled for 11/30!

Important Dates:  

November 11th-Veteran's Day

November 17th-End of Trimester 1

November 22-26-Thanksgiving Break, No school