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!