Odds and Ends:
*Magazine Drive: A BIG thank you to everyone who participated in our fundraiser. Our class was the 3rd top selling classroom! WOW!
UPCOMING EVENTS:
*Mon. 10/3: Spelling:List 6 Pretest*Wed. 10/5: English: DOL #2 Quiz
Math: Ch. 4 Test
*Fri. 10/7: Spelling: List 6 Test
A LOOK AT NEXT WEEK:
*Reading:We will focus on the reading strategy inferencing. The students will use basal reading stories, supplemental short stories, and possibly novels to extend their practice of understanding what they read. Students will learn new vocabulary words from stories they are reading. We will also continue to work on an extended response where we use ideas from the text combined with our own ideas to answer a question.
*English: We will finish our ME essays and share our bags and paper next week. We will begin a new writing unit on descriptive writing.
*Spelling: We will work on list 6. Pretest on Monday and homework and final test on Friday. Keep up the outstanding work!
*Social Studies: We will continue our map skills unit with hemispheres.
*Science: The students worked in cooperative groups to create amazing ecosystem dioramas! We will continue our study of ecosystems this week.
*Math: We are finishing up subtraction in ch. 4. The test is scheduled for Wed. 10/5. Next up: Chapter 1: place value! We will continue to practice our subtraction timed tests next week.
Have a fabulous FALL weekend!
Mrs. Olsen
