Happy Halloween!
*Thank you to Mrs. Leatherwood, Mrs. Burrows, Mrs. Stanley, Mrs. Singh, and Mrs. Wagner for making our Halloween classroom celebration SPOOK-tacular! The students and teachers had a great time!
UPCOMING EVENTS:
*Tues. 11/2:No School: Teacher Institute
*Thurs. 11/4: Math: Ch. 4 Subtraction Test
*Fri. 11/5: Spelling: Analogies: Part/whole graded review
Math: Subtraction Fast Facts 0-18 Graded Review
A LOOK AT NEXT WEEK:
*Reading: We will be focusing on the following skills and strategies as we read novels this week: identifying character traits, setting, and problem/solution, summarizing, predicting, and making inferences.
*Spelling: This week the students will focus on solving part/whole analogies. We will work on this skill every day. A packet will be given to the students on Monday. We will work on the packet in class and some pages will be homework. This packet can be studied and reviewed for Friday's graded review on part/whole analogies.
*English: We will begin Verbs (ch. 3) on Monday. We will pretest the chapter to determine student's prior knowledge.
*Science: We will continue to work on ch. 10 space.
*Social Studies: The students will continue to work on Downers Grove, focusing on modern day Downers Grove as well as local government. We will use the social studies textbook ch. 12 to learn about local government. Our field trip to visit the places we have learned about in class will take place Tues. 11/9.
*Math: We are finishing up ch. 4: subtraction. The test is scheduled for Thurs. 11/4. Please review subtracting with borrowing and subtracting across zeros (example 5,001- 398) with your child. Remember the "Triple B" saying: Is the Bottom number Bigger? Borrow! We will also continue to practice our 0-18 subtraction fast facts all week. They will begin to count as a grade on Fri. 11/5.
Have a safe, fun, and spooky Halloween weekend!
Mrs. Olsen and Miss Galloway
