Happy Fall!!
Odds and Ends
Friendly Reminder:
Please remember to check and initial your child’s assignment notebook each night. Your child should get into the habit of cleaning our his/her binder (keep at home section ONLY) each night to help keep organized and share his/her work with family at home. By looking through the binder and assignment notebook, your child will be forming great study habits that will help them become independent, responsible, and organized students. Thank you!
Please remember to check and initial your child’s assignment notebook each night. Your child should get into the habit of cleaning our his/her binder (keep at home section ONLY) each night to help keep organized and share his/her work with family at home. By looking through the binder and assignment notebook, your child will be forming great study habits that will help them become independent, responsible, and organized students. Thank you!
THANK-YOU: A great BIG thank-you to all of the parent helpers at the Halloween party on Wednesday. We had a great time playing games and having fun together. We could not have done it without the help of Mrs. Patera, Mrs. Paskvan, Mrs. Rovella, Mrs. Tonietto, Mrs. Charles, and Mrs. Gonzalez. THANK YOU!!!
Also, thank-you to the Imgruet, Armouti, and Sarros family for donating disposables cameras and prizes for our prize box. You can always send in gently used toys, etc as well. We appreciate your generosity!
Independent Reading Folders: Our next reading party will take place on Thursday, 11/8. Please have your completed reading log pages turned in NO LATER than Wednesday, 11/7 to attend this party. Thank you!
**In preparation for a Thanksgiving art project, our classroom is collecting empty toilet paper tubes. Please send in any of these tubes to school with your child. Thanks!
Upcoming Events:
*Tues. 11/6: After school Roller Stating Party 4-6 pm...See you there!
*Wed. 11/87 Reading: IL WB Lesson 2 Graded Review
Science: Health Test
Science: Health Test
*Thurs. 11/8: English: Chapter 2 Nouns Test
*Fri. 11/9: Health Fest: send in healthy snacks! Don't forget a pillow, stuffed animal, and toothbrush/toothpaste =)
Spelling: List 10 Test
Miss Carlstrom's Math Class: Make A Table /T-chart Quiz
SPIRIT DAY: Friday is School Spirit Day...show your support by wearing PV gear or 
gold and green! Go Panthers!
gold and green! Go Panthers!*Miss Carlstrom's Math Class: We are becoming Terrific T-chart writers! Your child brought home a packet explaining t-charts this week. I hope you had a chance to read over the information. We will continue to work on t-charts next week, with a quiz over the 3 types of tables (we have learned 2 so far in class) tentatively scheduled for Friday, 11/9. We will learn the last "type" of table on Monday and review the 3 tables the rest of the week before the quiz. The quiz will consist of doing 3 problems (reviewing each of the types of tables) and then choosing one problem to write a t-chart on. Keep up the hard work!
*Science: We are finishing up our health and nutrition unit. We went over the study guide today in class and your child's health chapter test will be on Wednesday, 11/7, instead of the 
previously mentioned date, Tues. 11/6. We will review in class next week before the test. Your child will be encouraged to take home the textbook Monday and Tuesday night to help them study. A note went home today explaining our "Health Fest" taking place on Friday, 11/9. This fun "fest" helps us to celebrate healthy choices and lifestyles and makes a great end to our health unit. We are looking for families to donate healthy, nature made snacks for that day. Please send the snacks/drinks to school on Friday. Your child can also bring a pillow and stuffed animal for our 5 minute nap and his/her toothbrush/toothpaste to brush our teeth after lunch. Thanks!
previously mentioned date, Tues. 11/6. We will review in class next week before the test. Your child will be encouraged to take home the textbook Monday and Tuesday night to help them study. A note went home today explaining our "Health Fest" taking place on Friday, 11/9. This fun "fest" helps us to celebrate healthy choices and lifestyles and makes a great end to our health unit. We are looking for families to donate healthy, nature made snacks for that day. Please send the snacks/drinks to school on Friday. Your child can also bring a pillow and stuffed animal for our 5 minute nap and his/her toothbrush/toothpaste to brush our teeth after lunch. Thanks!*Social Studies: We will be finishing up our city brochures this week. The students will be given time in class on Monday to work on their brochure. Any unfinished work will be sent home to be turned in no later than Friday, 11/9. Please refer to the rubric for the brochures in your child's social studies folder to see what the expectations are for this project. We will begin lesson 2 of the chapter this week, getting a closer look at 3 U.S. cities.
*Spelling: We will back to our typical spelling week, working on List 10, words that end in double consonants. There will be a pretest Monday and the final test on Friday. Keep studying those words..the lists are getting more challenging!
*Reading: We will begin a story from our anthology, Mulan. This story will help reinforce the students inferencing skills, as well as build vocabulary skills. We will be making flashcards of the vocabulary from the story on Monday. These flashcards will be kept in your child's binder. Please review them each night! In our Illinois workbook, we tore out all of the Lesson 2 pages and they can be found in your child's English or Reading section of their binder. The students will review the concepts in this lesson (appositives, antonyms/synonyms, find meaning of words in context) and a graded review will be on Wednesday, 11/7.
*English: The students are continuing to learn about nouns. We will focus on possessive nouns next week. The students will receive their study guide on Tuesday and the final Nouns chapter 2 test will be on Thursday, 11/8. Our next English unit will be a writing unit.
Thank you for checking out my blog! Happy November! Have a wonderful weekend!
~Miss Carlstrom
