*Odds and Ends*
Thank you to all of the families that donated items for our Johnny Appleseed Celebration. We enjoyed the homemade applesauce and apple juice. Look in your child's binder for the recipe we used to try it out at home!
Magazine Drive:
The last turn in date in Tuesday, September 30th.
The last turn in date in Tuesday, September 30th.
Goo, Glob, Guts:
Thank you all for turning in the money for our special in class activity. The students will enjoy this program on Tues. 9/30.
Scholastic Book Order:
Please remember to order books for the month of September! The orders are due in the classroom or online by 9/30. A new October order will be sent home next week.
*UPCOMING EVENTS*
*Tues. 9/30: Social Studies: Hemisphere Quiz
Last Magazine Turn In
Scholastic Book Orders Due
Goo, Glob and Guts Presentation
*Thurs. 10/2: Math: Rounding Quiz
English: Unit 1 'The Sentence" Test
*Fri. 10/3: Spelling: List 5 Test
Science: Body Systems Test
*A LOOK AHEAD AT NEXT WEEK*
Mrs. Olsen's Language Arts Class:
Reading: We are continuing to work on prediction using our own personal experiences, illustrations, and text clues. Encourage your child to use these skills as they read at home. We will start a new novel Hey, New Kid as we work on prediction and review visualization. New vocabulary words will be sent home on Monday with a graded quiz on Friday.
English: The students will be finishing up Unit 1 in our English book...The Sentence. Please continue to review subject and predicate at home. This is a tricky concept for the students. The final unit test will be on Thurs. 10/2. A study guide will be sent home. The next unit is descriptive writing.
*Spelling: This week we will work on List 5, plural of vowel + y words. The pretest will be on Monday and the final test will be on Friday. Please practice the words each night!
Mrs. Olsen's Science and Social Studies Class:
Science: This week we will finish up our Body Systems unit. We will spend all next week reviewing for our final test, which will be on Friday, 10/2. A study guide was sent home today, Please have your child complete it by Wednesday. Our next unit will be Health.
*Social Studies: Our map unit is almost over. We will take a quiz on hemispheres, the equator, the prime meridian, and the north and south poles on Tues. 9/30. Our next unit will begin next week as we explore our our backyard...Downers Grove. We will begin with history and location of Downers Grove.
Mrs. Olsen's Math Class:
Math: We are working on rounding numbers. Students began rounding to the nearest 10. We will work with rounding to the nearest 100 and 1,000 next week. We will take a rounding review on Thurs. 10/2 to check for understanding. Ask your child about the 3 steps they take as they round a number. Maybe they will sing you our "Rounding March"!
Thanks for checking in! Happy Fall!
~Mrs. Olsen
