November 3-7

Odds and Ends

*Thank you to all of the parents who helped to make our Halloween Party a blast! A special thanks to Mrs. Scheiblein, Mrs. Veverka, Mrs. Wilson, Mrs. Duza, Ms. Schulthrope, Mrs. Zowaski, and Mrs. David. Thank you for making this a great day for the kids!

*Book Worm Angels: We are collecting gently used books for our Character Counts activity this season. If you have any gently used children's books (k-8th grade), please send them into school next week. We will collect them and they will be distributed to children in schools that need books. Thank you for your generosity and kindness.

* Science Book Online: We will be starting a new science curriculum soon and the new textbook will be available online for your child to read and study. This convenient tool will allow you and your child to have the textbook at home without every carrying it! Information about signing on and passwords was sent via email today, Friday, 10/31. Thank you!

*The Social Studies committee is looking for two parents who have an education or history background to be involved in the adoption of new Social Studies textbooks. You would have to meet with the committee and provide input choosing our textbook for the coming years. The Social Studies committee will be meeting once every other month for the next two years. Please email mpellin@ccsd66.org if you would be interested in joining the Social Studies committee. Thank you!

UPCOMING EVENTS:

*Mon. 11/3: Spelling: List 10 Pretest

English: DOL #3 Quiz

*Tues. 11/4: No School: Teacher Institute: Happy Election Day!

*Fri. 11/7: Spelling Test: List 10

A LOOK AT NEXT WEEK:

Mrs.Olsen's Language Arts Class:

*Reading: We finished up compare and contrast and will now begin our next strategy, cause and effect. We will begin our new story, Cliffhanger. This is a story that involves rock climbing. Are you a rock climber or do you know someone who could come in and show us all of the equipment and items that are used for rock climbing? Let me know and we will invite them to talk to our class next week. It would be cool to see these items in person.

*English: We are busy putting all we learned about descriptive writing into action. The students are finishing their descriptive papers about a haunted house. We will continue to work with descriptive writing as well as nouns. We will also continue to work on grammar and punctuation in our daily DOL activities. DOL quiz #3 will be on Mon. 11/3. This will cover commas in a series, month abbreviations, and titles such as Mrs., Miss, Dr. etc.

*Spelling: We will be on list 10 next week. There will be a pretest on Monday and a final test on Friday. A packet will be sent home on Monday and will be due on Friday.

Mrs. Olsen's Science and Social Studies:

*Science: We are working on lesson 3 in our textbook. The lesson focuses on: *prescription medicine, over the counter medicine, alcohol, nicotine, and illegal drugs. We will be finishing this unit soon. Expect a study guide next week. The test is scheduled for Wed. 11/ 12.

*Social Studies: The students are learning a lot about the government and election, just in time for November 4th. We will continue to discuss the election, local government, and Downers Grove. We will participate in a school wide election on Mon. 11/3 and see who Prairieview students would choose as president!

Mrs. Olsen's Math Class:

*Math: The students began Chapter 4 this week, which focuses on subtraction. Items discussed: Fact Families

Estimating Differences

Coming up next...subtracting greater numbers and subtracting across zeroes.

Have a safe and SPOOK-tacular Halloween weekend!

~Mrs. Olsen