I wish you all a happy, healthy, and magical holiday season!
I can't wait to spend it with this little fellow!
Enjoy your time spent with your family and friends.
From our home to yours, Happy Holidays!
Odds and Ends:
* Paper Recycling: Remember to recycle your paper in our districts yellow and green Paper Retriever bin and help us raise money and help the environment at the same time! This includes all of the wrapping paper that will be used during the holiday season!
* Help Our Furry Friends: We will continue to collect items for local pet shelters through the end of next week. Thank you for your donations!
* PBIS: Please check out our new PBIS website : http://prairieviewpbis.blogspot.com/ to learn more about our PBIS program at school. Thanks!
UPCOMING EVENTS:
*Mon. 12/17: Bowling 9-11 (Please send in a sack lunch that day)
*Tues. 12/18: Social Studies: DG and Ch. 12 test
*Fri. 12/21: Don't Forget: December Reading Calendars are due TODAY!
Spelling: Winter Word Test
Math: 4's multiplication test
Tivoli Movie: The Polar Express
Winter Break Begins!!!
AFTER BREAK EVENTS:
*Mon. 1/7: Happy New Year! School begins in 2013
* Tues. 1/8: MAPS Testing: Reading
*Thurs. 1/10: AIMSWeb Reading Benchmarking Tests
*Fri. 1/11: MAPS Testing Math
A LOOK AT NEXT WEEK:
*Reading: We will be finishing up our inference character bags. We will also focus on authors message, purpose, and theme. We will work on inferring vocabulary by using context clues. We will continue to work on our reading blogs. Students will also read about Holidays Around the World and share their findings in cooperative groups.
Also, December Reading calendars are due 12/21. I will also hand our January calendars on Thurs. 12/20 so students can record any reading they do over break on the calendar. This calendar will not be due until the end of Jan.
*English: We will begin Verbs after break. I will be pretesting the students next week to assess their prior knowledge about verbs, which will help me plan our activities.
*Spelling: Next week we will work with a shortened list of winter words. There will be no pretest. The final test will be on Fri. 12/21. Homework will be sent home on Monday and due Thursday.
*Social Studies: We are wrapping up our study of Downers Grove and ch. 12 local governments. We have been so honored to invite the mayor of Downers Grove into our school to talk to his about his job, as well as our very own superintendent, Mr. Arnold, into our classroom. We loved talking to our community leaders. Thank you! Our next unit will begin after break. We will study ch. 3: Culture and Immigration.
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| Mr. Arnold visits our classroom to teach us more about his job as our wonderful superintendent! |
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| Thank you for visiting our classroom! |
*Science: We started ch. 11: Matter. We will continue to work on matter next week. We will also work on this unit the 2 weeks following break.
*Math: The students have been busy making their own graphs. They created a question, surveyed their classmates, made a pictograph, and spent time in the computer lab learning about to make a bar graph on the computer. They did a great job applying their learning to this project. We will begin ch. 20 on customary measurement next week. We will also focus on 4's multiplication tables. The test on 4's will be on Fri. 12/21.
