Odds And Ends
* Congratulations 3rd Graders! We won the Box Top competition for 3rd grade after the first count! We will be awarded with a pizza party in the classroom on Tuesday, November 27th! Way to go! Keep up the good work and keep collecting and turning in those box tops!
*HOLIDAY SERVICE PROJECT: Two notes were sent home on Friday explaining our school wide holiday service project. Each classroom is assigned a family to "sponsor" this holiday season, as well as work to collect gift cards and money for the Lutherbrook Foundation, a safe home for abused children. As a class, we will be working to make the holidays bright for a family struggling with cancer. Our family includes Madison, a 3 year old girl with cancer, and her 14 year old sister and mom and dad. We will be collecting gifts for the individual family members and entire family, as well as monetary donations and gift cards for Lutherbrook through Wednesday, December 5th. Please see the note in your child's binder for details explaining these special and incredible projects. Any questions, please contact me. Thank you in advance for your generosity and kindness!
*CONFERENCES: Thank you for sending in your confirmations about conferences. I will look forward to meeting with you the week of 11/26-11/28. Please remember to be on time for your conference as time is precious and 15 minutes can go fast!
*YEARBOOK ORDERS: Now’s the time to place your orders. Yearbooks are $9.00 and the deadline for your orders is Monday, December 3, 2007. No orders will be accepted after that date. This is the only time this year to place your yearbook order. Please make checks payable to Lifetouch. Please make sure your student’s name, teacher’s name and grade level are marked on the order form. Yearbook order forms went home with your child on November 15th and there a few extra envelopes available; please try not to lose them. If your child loses it, you can send an envelope with the following information on it: student’s name, teacher’s name and grade level along with a check made payable to Lifetouch for $9.00. It is very important that you put the information on the envelope; Lifetouch does not know who your child’s teacher is. Thank you!
Upcoming Events:
*Tues. 11/20: English: Chapter 5 Open Book Test
End of 1st Trimester
*Wed. 11/21-Fri. 11/23: No School! Happy Turkey Day!!
*Mon. 11/26: Class Resumes: Welcome Back
Parent Teacher Conferences
*Tues. 11/27: Parent Teacher Conferences
Report Cards Sent Home
*Wed. 11/28: Parent Teacher Conferences
*Fri. 11/30: No School
*Math: We are working on chapter 3 in the textbook, adding and subtracting greater numbers. We will continue to work on exact and estimated answers, as well as learn some "tricks" to add and subtract greater numbers.
*Science: Our next unit will be Space. More information to come! =)
*Social Studies: We completed Chapter 1, Communities. The students did a wonderful job learning so much new information. We loved playing Jeopardy in class to prepare for the final test. Our next unit will cover 3 new cities as we learn more about rural, urban, and suburban communities.
*Spelling: There will be no spelling next week. We will resume on Monday with list 12. There will be no pretest that week due to no school on Friday, 11/30.
*Reading; This week we finished reading Mulan and practicing our inference skills. We made our own rap to remember how to inference..."It's what you read plus what's in your head". =) We will continue to practice making inferences, as this is a tricky skill to apply to our reading. We have also been working on our Illinois workbook, lesson 3, which covers various reading strategies. The children will take a graded review of this information on Monday, 11/19. After Thanksgiving break, we will be traveling back in time as we explore Ancient Egypt. We will be reading and learning all about the ancient civilization of Egypt.
*English: This week we have been reviewing Chapter 5. The skills in this unit have been taught since September in our weekly DOL's. The students have been working to review the different grammar and conventions skills. We will continue to review on Monday. Tuesday, 11/20 the students will take an open book test covering Ch. 5. Since we have been using these skills every day this year and spent a lot of time practicing in class, the students are well prepared to apply their knowledge. Not much time needs to be spent at home studying...we have done a lot in class! Our next unit will be narrative writing and main idea.
Thank you for reading our classroom blog! I hope you have a wonderful, relaxing, and fun Thanksgiving break with your friends and family! Happy Turkey Day! =)
~Miss Carlstrom
