Week of October 29-November 2

We will finish off this week and be in November! The holidays are just around the corner!

Important Dates:  

10/29- No school for students
10/31- Halloween Parties 1-1:50 and parade (all are welcome) 1:55-end of day
11/1- Downers Grove Test (study guides went home 10/25)
11/1- October Reading log is due

Spelling:  

• A new list of words have gone home.  The test will be on 11/2 and the 3 activities will also be due.  If you would like to study the words at home with your child, you can open to the Spelling folder and work on some activities on the menu. Please just make sure the activities and menu go back into that folder because we will work on them throughout the 2 weeks!

Reading/English:

• We will be working on finishing our final drafts of our haunted house writing. 
• We also will be focusing on reading informational texts and finding relationships.
• The October Reading Log will be due 11/1.

Social Science:

• We are finishing up our DG unit with a test on Thursday, 11/1. A study guide went home on 10/25.

Math (For families in my math class only):

• We will focus this week on learning more strategies for subtraction and moving on to addition strategies. 
• Many useful tips and tricks are in the math google classroom if you would like to take a look!

Have a terrific weekend and enjoy your 4 days!

Week of 10/22-10/26

Conferences will be taking place this week. Please check your sign up time. 

Important Dates:  

10/22 - Conference Week

10/24 - Students earned a marble party and voted on cap out day (Bring sleeping bag, wear PJ's, bring small stuffed animal, and we will be watching the Witches)

10/25- DG Field Trip (please dress for the weather)

10/26- No school

Spelling:  

• A new list of words will be going home on Monday.  The test will be on 11/2 and the 3 activities will also be due.  If you would like to study the words at home with your child, you can open to the Spelling folder and work on some activities on the menu. Please just make sure the activities and menu go back into that folder because we will work on them throughout the 2 weeks!

Reading/English:

• We will continue to learn about adjectives and work on writing the rough draft of our persuasive haunted house story. Some students will start the final draft this week.
• We will also continue focusing on reading informational texts and sequencing the events and talking about the cause and effect relationships.
• The October Reading Log will be due 11/1.

Social Science:

• We have read so much about the history of DG and will take our field trip Thursday! We are super excited to see all the things we have been learning about! 

Math (For families in my math class only):

• We are continuing to dig deep into subtraction strategies and rounding. This can be difficult for students since this may be new. Please don't stress. It is an introduction and they will continue this in 4th grade. There are many resources on math classroom to assist. 

Have a terrific weekend!

Week of October 15-19

Conferences will be starting this week and go into week of October 22-25.

Coming Up Next Week:

Spelling:  

• A new list of words went home.  The test will be on 10/19 and the 3 activities will also be due.  If you would like to study the words at home with your child, you can open to the Spelling folder and work on some activities on the menu. Please just make sure the activities and menu go back into that folder because we will work on them throughout the 2 weeks!

Reading/English:

• We will continue to learn about adjectives and start writing the rough draft of our persuasive haunted house story. 
• We will also be focusing on reading informational texts and sequencing the events and talking about the cause and effect relationships.
• The October Reading Log will be due 11/1.

Social Science:

• We have begun our DG unit. The students seemed mesmerized by the historical information and the idea that we will be going on a field trip to see these things. If you haven't done so already, please send in the permission slip to go.

Math (For families in my math class only):

• We are digging deep into more addition and subtraction strategies and rounding. There will be a multi-digit and rounding checkpoint on Monday. You can review rounding to the tens and hundreds place. 

Important Dates:  

10/22 - Conference Week

Have a terrific weekend!

Week of October 8-12

By the end of this week, we will be close to have way through October already! Time flies when we have fun!

Conferences will be help the week of October 22-25. A sign up email will be going out soon! 

Coming Up Next Week:

Spelling:  

• A new list of words will go home on Tuesday. The test will be on 10/19 and the 3 activities will also be due.  If you would like to study the words at home with your child, you can open to the Spelling folder and work on some activities on the menu. Please just make sure the activities and menu go back into that folder because we will work on them throughout the 2 weeks!

Reading/English:

• This week will will start preparing for our persuasive writing unit. We will learn about adjectives and how to use them in our writing. We will do this with some fun Halloween themed activities! It will be spooktacular!
• The October Reading Log will be due 11/1.

Social Science:

• We will begin our new unit all about Downers Grove! 
• This is a fun unit about the history of our town. We will finish the unit with a field trip to Downers Grove on 10/25! Permission slips will go home home soon!

Math (For families in my math class only):

• We have begun our next unit in Math. Unit 3 (we will go back to unit 2 after this one)
• This unit is all about rounding numbers. This can be difficult so we will spend a lot of time practicing!

Important Dates:  

10/8 - Columbus Day (no school)

10/22 - Conference Week

Have a terrific weekend!