Week of November 11-15

Monday is Veterans’ Day and here at PV we have a wonderful assembly

honoring our own veterans (those who have a connection to our Panthers.)

Please contact the office if you are or know a veteran who would like

to join us on Monday.  

3rd graders should wear RED!!!

 Our Downers Grove trip is on 11/21.

Coming Up Next Week:

Spelling:  New spelling words and a new menu will be coming home on

Monday.  The due date is 11/22.

Reading & Language Arts:  We’ll continue our Myths unit this week.

We’ll also be making veterans cards!  

November reading logs are now in your possession.  They are due back 

on or before November 26.

Social Science: Our DG test is scheduled for Tuesday 11/12.

Mrs. Mandru's Math Class: Our pretest (study guide) will be

checked carefully on Tuesday. The Unit 3 final test will be on

Wednesday.

Important Dates:  

11/21 - Downers Grove Field Trip

11/27-11/29 - Days off for Thanksgiving

Week of November 5-8

Thank you for joining me for a conference this week!  It was 

wonderful sitting down with you all and discussing your wonderful

children.  

Thank you, also,  to the wonderful moms who are planning and carrying 

out our Halloween party later today.  I know it will be amazing! Be safe
out there when trick-or-treating!

Coming Up Next Week:

Spelling:  Menu homework will be due on or before 11/8. The test will 

also happen on that day.

Reading & Language Arts:  We’ll be starting our Myths lesson; this week

we’ll focus on King Midas.

November reading logs will be going home today.  They are due back 

on or before December 1.

Social Science: Our Downers Grove test will be on Wednesday, 11/14. 

A study guide will go home Tuesday!!

Mrs. Mandru's Math Class: This week our focus will be on Algorithms

for addition and subtraction (Stacking.)  A pretest (study guide) will be

coming home on Tuesday.  The Unit 3 final test will be on Wednesday, 

11/13.

Important Dates:  

11/1 - Day off for conferences

11/4 - Teachers’ Institute (Day off)

11/5 - Senior Center Visit

11/21 - Downers Grove Field Trip (with Klacza’s class)

Week of October 28- November 1

Halloween is almost here!  Please make sure your child brings his/her

costume to school in a bag on Halloween (Thursday.)   Costumes should be
easy to get on and off. Students will be changing in the classroom (we separate
the boys and the girls.) If you have any questions, send me an email.

Don’t forget about the parade (which will begin at 1:55ish.) 

Hopefully the weather will cooperate!

I’ll see you all next week for conferences!

Coming Up Next Week:

Spelling:  A new set of words will be coming home on Monday with a

pink menu. That homework will be due on or before 11/8.

Reading & Language Arts:  We’ll continue our writing this coming week!

Our big writing project,“Buy My Haunted House” has been assigned and

discussed.  Students will be using adjectives, similes, and all kinds

of descriptive words.

October reading logs are due by November 5.

Social Science: We are deep in our Downers Grove unit and loving it. 

Mrs. Mandru's Math Class: We are moving along in Unit 3. We’ll

continue to focus on multi-digit addition and subtraction. 

Important Dates:  

10/28-10/30 - Conferences (homeroom only)

10/31 - Halloween Parade & Party

11/1 - Day off for conferences

11/4 - Teachers’ Institute (Day off)

11/5 - Senior Center Visit

11/21 - Downers Grove Field Trip (with KLacza’s class)

10/14-18

We are halfway through the 1st trimester of third grade!  Can you believe it?

Hopefully, grades are being monitored online.  If you are having problems doing so,please call the office. Have a wonderful Columbus Day weekend!

A separate email will be going out today to homeroom parents for

conference sign up.  They will be scheduled for the last week of

October.

Coming Up Next Week:

Spelling:  On Monday, students will be getting their new words and

menu. It’ll be due on or before Friday, October 25.

Reading & Language Arts: Morty the Meany and Morty and the Twice Fit Mice

will be the stories we’re reading this week. We’ll also start our unit on

descriptive writing. 

October reading logs are due by November 5.

Social Science: We are studying Downers Grove with our focus on

Pierce Downer, Israel Blodgett and his family, the Potawami Indians, and

the Underground Railroad. 

Mrs. Mandru's Math Class: We are moving along in Unit 3. This week’s 

focus will be on multi-digit subtraction. There will be a short checkpoint quiz on Wednesday.  

Important Dates:  

10/14 - Columbus Day (no school)

10/28, 10/29 & 10/30 - Conferences (homeroom only)

10/31 - Halloween Parade & Party

11/1 - Day off for conferences

11/4 - Teachers’ Institute (Day off)

October 7-11

Coming Up Next Week:

Spelling:  Three menu activities are required to be turned in on or before

Friday, 10/11. The test will also be on Friday the 11th. 

Reading & Language Arts:  This week we’ll be reading The Tortoise and 

the Hare, focusing on theme (lesson.) The students will also be 

completing a fun growth mindset activity. 

October reading logs are due by November 5.

Social Science: We have now completed our unit on hemispheres. Next

week, we begin our Downers Grove unit!  First up will be the history

0f DG starting with our founder, Pierce Downer  This unit leads to

a really fun field trip coming up in the near future.

Mrs. Mandru's Math Class: We have now completed Unit 1 in our Bridges 

series. Next week, we’ll start Unit 3.  We are skipping Unit 2 and will

return to it after Unit 3.  We feel the flow is better this way.

Our specific focus will be rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100.

Important Dates:  

10/14 - Columbus Day (no school)

10/31 - Halloween Parade & Party

11/1 - Day off for conferences

11/4 - Teachers’ Institute (Day off)

9/16-9/20

Happy Friday everyone!  It’s Friday the 13th, a full moon, AND

a palindrome (9/13/19.) It should be an interesting day! 

I hope everyone has a great, relaxing weekend.

Coming Up Next Week:

Spelling:  The Spelling menu homework will be due on or before Friday, 9/27. 
Some activities will require you to initial in the box on the menu.

Some activities will require work done on a sheet of notebook paper.
Three activities are required. The test will also be on Friday the 27th. 

The test will include 15 words from the student's list (teacher's choice)
and 2 sentences, using any of their 2 words. A letter will be coming

home explaining everything on Monday.

Reading & Language Arts:  Instructions for your child’s “Me Bag” are coming

home today. There will be an extensive writing project and presentation

that goes along with the items they put in their bags. The students are

bringing home a big ziploc bag.

Please send these items to school before Wednesday.

Social Science: We’ve started continents and oceans.  There will be

plenty of fun activities done for this unit which will lead up to a quiz.  

The tentative date for that quiz is 9/25.

Mrs.Mandru's Math Class:  In math, we’ll be working hard on Unit 1

Addition & Subtraction Patterns.  The focus this coming week will be

on the subtraction table.  There will be a short checkpoint quiz on
Tuesday, 9/17.  We’ll then start learning about length and addition of

length.

Important Dates:  

9/26 - Johnny Appleseed’s Birthday

10/2 - Early Dismissal

10/14 - Columbus Day (no school)

Week of September 9-13

It was so great to see you all at Curriculum 

Night on Wednesday; we had a great turnout!!  Thank you so much for

coming out and listening! If you’d like me to send

you a copy of my slide show, please email me!

Coming Up Next Week:

Spelling:  We are taking an extra week off - Spelling will start

the week of 9/16.

Reading & Language Arts:  We’ll continue our focus on various reading skills using
fun literature.  This week our books will be Zoom, Pigsty, the 

Lost and Found, and Recess Queen. The skills studied will be inferencing,

Compare & contrast, and character analysis.

Social Science: There will be a short quiz on directions on 9/12.  A study guide
went home last week.

Mrs.Mandru's Math Class:  In math, we’ll be working hard on Unit 1

Addition & Subtraction Patterns.  The focus this coming week will be

on the addition table.  There will be a short checkpoint quiz on Monday,

9/16.

Important Dates:  

9/26 - Johnny Appleseed’s Birthday

10/2 - Early Dismissal

10/14 Columbus Day