Week of 10/29-11/2

Odds and Ends

* Fall Conferences: Fall conferences with homeroom teachers will take place next week. My conferences are Mon. 10/29 and Tues. 10/30. If you need a reminder of your date and time, please email me and I can send the information.

*Field Trip: We will be taking a Downers Grove field trip on Thurs. 11/15. A permission slip will be sent home on Monday and due back by Fri. 11/9. The permission slip will include all of the information and details about this educational and fun filled day! 

* Halloween Party: We are all looking forward to our classroom party on Wed. 10/31. Our parent parents have planned a great party! If your child wants to dress up for the party, please send them with his/her costume. Please make sure your child can change into their costume on their own. We will change that afternoon before the parade at 1:00. The party will begin at 1:30 pm. 

*Do you have an old iphone or ipod that you don't use anymore? I would love to put it to good use! I am looking for working old iphones or ipods to use as a listening center in my classroom. They only need to play an audiobook that I would upload to the devices (so no service or apps are necessary). Having a charger with it would be great as well! Thank you!

UPCOMING EVENTS: 

*Mon. 10/29: Conferences after school

*Tues. 10/30: Conferences after school
Reading: Cliffhanger Vocab Quiz

*Wed. 10/31: Halloween Parade at 1:00, Party at 1:30

*Fri. 11/2: Spelling: Halloween words test

A LOOK AT NEXT WEEK: 

*Reading: We will continue to work on making inferences, making good predictions, and cause and effect. Please review the vocab from Cliffhanger. The quiz will be on Tues.10/30. Also, October reading calendars are due 11/1. 

*English: We will continue to work on our haunted house paper as we work on our descriptive writing skills. Nouns are coming up next!

*Spelling: This week we will work on Halloween words. There will be no pretest. The word list and homework will be sent home on Thursday and due Friday (instead of Thursday due to Halloween). The test will be on Friday. 

*Science: Our next unit will be ecosystems. 

*Social Studies: We began our Downers Grove unit. We are focusing on the history and early days of this community. 

*Math: We will begin our  subtraction facts timed tests this week. We will work on our facts in class and take a practice test each day. We will also focus on problem solving this week and working on word problems. We will begin ch. 5 on money later in the week. 

 Happy Halloween! 

Mrs. Olsen