Week of January 27-31

Important:

STAY WARM!

Please continue to sign your child's assignment books.

Our in class Spelling Bee will be on Monday. The winners of the class spelling bee will then be entered into the 3^rd grade bee.

Math
We will work with dividing and multiplying by 6’s this week. The 6’s test will be on Friday, 31st.

Spelling
We will be on List 17 this week. The Pretest is on Monday and the final test will be on Friday. If your child gets 0,1, or 2 wrong on the pretest they will have 2  challenge activities and the cursive sheet, they have the option to take the test on Friday. If they get more than 2 words wrong, they will have the regular work. (Cursive sheet and two assigned activities)  The homework is due on Thursday.

Reading
We will be doing guided reading groups this week in correlation with Daily 5.

English
We will finish up unit 4-adjectives. The final test will be on Friday, January 31^st.  

Social Studies
We will be working on Lesson 3 of chapter 3 culture. Students will be presenting about their culture to the class on either January 30 or February 3. (If they were on Friday, it was moved to Monday the 3rd.

Science
We will focus on lesson 3 of chapter 12 this week.  The final test for chapter 12 will be on Wednesday. January 29^th.

Have a great weekend!

Week of January 21-24

Important:
Class Practice Spelling Bee: Thursday 1/23Class Spelling Bee: Monday 1/27
Please continue to sign your child's assignment books. 

MathWe will work with dividing and multiplying by 4’s this week. The 4’s test will be on Friday, 24^th.
 

SpellingWe will be on List 16 this week. The Pretest is on Tuesday and the final test will be on Friday. If your child gets 0,1, or 2 wrong on the pretest they will have 1  challenge activity and the cursive sheet, they have the option to take the test on Friday. If they get more than 2 words wrong, they will have the regular work. (Cursive sheet and two assigned activities)  The homework is due on Thursday. 

ReadingWe will be doing guided reading groups this week and continue our study of prefixes and suffixes.
 

EnglishWe have started unit 4-Adjectives. We will be working with lessons 4-6 this week.
 

Social Studies We will be working on Lesson 2 of chapter 3 culture. Students will be presenting about their culture to the class on either January 30 or 31. Please be working on that at home with your child.
 

ScienceWe will focus on lesson 2 of chapter 12 this week.
 

Have a great 3 day weekend!
Students have received a google account for in school activities and working on things at home. Please practice logging in with your child onto google and then into drive. Any questions please feel free to email me. 

Week of January 13-17

Important:

Welcome Back and happy New Year!

Early Dismissal on Wednesday, January 15th at 11:00.


We will have MAP’s testing for Reading on Tuesday, January 14 at 8:05. Please make sure your child eats a healthy breakfast that week so they are prepared for the test.

Please continue to sign your child's assignment books.

Math
We will work with dividing and multiplying by 3’s this week. The 3’s test will be on Friday, 17^th.

Spelling
We will be on List 15 this week. The Pretest is on Monday and the final test will be on Friday. If your child gets 0,1, or 2 wrong on the pretest they will have 2  challenge activities and the cursive sheet, they have the option to take the test on Friday. If they get more than 2 words wrong, they will have the regular work. (Cursive sheet and two assigned activities)  The homework is due on Thursday.

Reading
We will continue our Christmas around the world unit. There will be in class presentations on Thursday.  

English
We have started unit 4-Adjectives. We will be working with lessons 1-3.

Social Studies
We are starting a new chapter: chapter 3-Culture. Students will be presenting about their culture to the class on either January 30 or 31. They will receive a planning sheet on Monday and it will be due on Friday. I will check their planning sheet on Thursday; after I check them and approve them they can start working on their project. A sheet will go home on Thursday explaining the project.

Science
We have started Chapter 12-energy. Next week we will finish lesson 1 and start lesson 2. If possible please have your child bring in a magazine that does not need to be returned on Tuesday.  

Have a great weekend!

Week of December 16-20

Important:

Last week before two weeks off!

Early Dismissal on Tuesday at 11:00.

3^rd grade goes bowling to Brunswick Zone on Thursday.

Whole school trip to the Tivoli on Friday.

The week we return, we will have MAP’s testing for Reading on Tuesday, January 7 at 8:05. Please make sure your child eats a healthy breakfast that week so they are prepared for the test. The Math MAP’s will be on Friday, January 10.

We have an in school presentation called High Tech High Touch coming to our classroom on Tuesday, January 7 to help us learn more about Matter. Please bring in $7.50 for this.


Please continue to sign your child's assignment books.

Math
We will work with dividing and multiplying by 5’s and 10’s this week. The test will be on Friday, December 20^th.

Spelling
We will not be having a pretest. The students will get 15 holiday words that they will need to use in a story and in cursive. That is what will be graded this week. It is due on Thursday.

Reading
We will continue our Christmas around the world unit. There will be in class presentations on Thursday.  

English
We will be testing Unit 3 verbs on Thursday, December 19^th.

Social Studies
 Modern Day DG test will be on Monday, December 16^th.

Science
We are done with Science.

Have a great weekend!

Week of Decemeber 9-13



Important:

Please continue to sign your child's assignment books.
PV holiday Concert: 12/10 at 9:00

Math
We will stating chapter 6. In this chapter we will be working with multiplying and dividing the numbers 2, 5, and 10. There will be no chapter test; instead on Friday 12/13 we will have a test on all the multiplication and division facts of 2’s. (2X1, 2X2, 2X3 etc.) (2/1, 2/2, 2/3 etc.)

The following week we will be working with 5 and 10’s. We will have a test over 5’s and 10’s on 12/20.

Spelling
We will be on List 13 this week. The Pretest is on Monday and the final test will be on Friday. If your child gets 0,1, or 2 wrong on the pretest they will have 2  challenge activities and the cursive sheet, they have the option to take the test on Friday. If they get more than 2 words wrong, they will have the regular work. (Cursive sheet and two assigned activities)  The homework is due on Thursday.

Reading
We will start a new unit; Christmas around the world. In this unit, students will work in groups and be given a country. They will be doing research on that country and then making a poster to present to the class. We will get to learn all about how other countries celebrate this holiday. This will carry over to the following week.

English
We will continue unit 3 Verbs. We will work on lesson 4-7. The unit 3 verbs test will be Thursday 12/19


Social Studies
 We will continue learning about our Modern Day Downers Grove. The test Modern Day Dg test is scheduled for Monday, 12/16.

Science
We have begun our Chapter 11 Matter unit. Due to the holiday break and the many tests already scheduled, we will not have a chapter test and instead just be quizzed on the open book reviews of each lesson.   

Have a great weekend!


Mystery Blog Question! (this is optional)

·         Bring in your answer to this question on Monday morning for a mint or sticker…

1.    What are the 5 physical properties of Matter?

Week of December 2-6

Prairieview School-Community Service Project

proudly collected

$550

to sponsor an Edward Hospital Animal Assisted Therapy Program!!!

Thanks to everyone who donated!!!

Important:
Happy Thanksgiving!
I am so thankful for wonderful students who come into school each day eager to learn and happy to be at school!

Please continue to sign your child's assignment books.

No school Wednesday, November 27-Friday, November 29 for Thanksgiving Break.

Math
We will continue division for the remainder of the week. There will be a chapter test on Chapter 5 Division on Friday, December 6. A review will go home on Wednesday and that will be a great study tool. The review is due back on Friday.

Spelling
We will be on List 12 this week. The Pretest is on Monday and the final test will be on Friday. If your child gets 0,1, or 2 wrong on the pretest they will have 2  challenge activities and the cursive sheet, they have the option to take the test on Friday. If they get more than 2 words wrong, they will have the regular work. (Cursive sheet and two assigned activities)  The homework is due on Thursday.

Reading
We will be working with the skill visualizing. We will read the story Dogzilla to help us visualize. There will be a vocab quiz on Friday over the words from the story. We will also continue with our Daily rotation to help us become better readers and writers.

English
We will start a new unit: Unit 3 Verbs. The pretest will be on Tuesday and we will work with lessons 1-3.

Social Studies
 We will continue learning about our Modern Day Downers Grove. We had a blast on the field trip and it was awesome to have such great chaperons participating!

Science
We will start our Matter unit this week and focus on lesson 1.  

Have a great weekend!


Mystery Blog Question! (this is optional)

·         Bring in your answer to this question on Monday morning for a mint or sticker…

1.    What are you thankful for?

Week of November 25 and 26

Important:
Please continue to sign your child's assignment books.

No school Wednesday, November 27-Friday, November 29 for Thanksgiving Break.


Math
We will have a checkpoint on division  

Spelling
No spelling this week due to the short week.

Reading
We will start up again with our Daily 5 rotations. We will be reading a story call The Keeping Quilt and looking at author’s purpose. There will be a vocab quiz on the words from the story on Friday 11-22.

English
We will be having a review for our English test on Monday. The unit 2 Test will be on Tuesday 11/26.

Social Studies
 We have started learning about our Modern Day Downers Grove. We will continue that after break.

Science
We will start our Matter unit after break.

Have a great weekend!


Mystery Blog Question! (this is optional)

·         Bring in your answer to this question on Monday morning for a mint or sticker…

1.    What holiday is coming up?