Odds and Ends:
*Magazine Drive: The drive ends next week. Please continue to bring in any orders on the turn in days. Thank you for participating in this great fundraiser!
*Prizes for prize box: Any new or gently used prizes are always welcome! Thank you to those families who have already donated!
* This week we began sharing Top 5 Things about ourselves that might surprise our friends. Ask your children what my number one fact was: )
*Scholastic Book Order: A September book order packet was sent home. Please consider making an online order that is safe and secure through their website. Each order placed on line earns free books for you and our classroom! The orders are due Fri. 9/27 either by sending in a paper form and check to class or ordering online. I will place the order Friday afternoon.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
*Mon. 9/23: English: Unit 1 Test
*Tues. 9/24: Magazine Turn in #3
*Thurs. 9/26: Johnny Appleseed's Birthday Celebration: send in peeled, sliced apple: )
*Fri. 9/27: Spelling: List 5 Test
Early Dismissal at 11:00
A LOOK AT NEXT WEEK:
*Reading: We will continue to work on summarizing and inferring this week. We will be working with the novels Ten True Animal Rescues. Students are also putting their visualizing skills to work as we make cartoons of the events of their favorite chapter.
We will also celebrate Johnny Appleseed's birthday on Thurs. 9/26. A note went home about one activity that we will do that day, which is to make our own applesauce. Each child needs to bring in one PEELED and SLICED apple on Thurs. We will add each apple to a crock pot and add other ingredients to create our apple sauce. We are also looking for parents to donate the following items: 20 100% apple juice boxes OR 2 containers of 100% apple juice and 20 cups, 20 plastic spoons, and 20 plastic bowls for our celebration. Please email if you are able to send in any of these items. You can send them into school with your child on or before Thurs. 9/26. Thank you!*English: We will take our ch.1 test on The Sentence on Mon. We will begin our first writing unit as we practice the steps and format of writing a 5 paragraph essay. Then we will begin unit 2: Nouns. We will also work on DOL #2 unit. We are focusing on capitalizing proper nouns.
*Spelling: We will work on list 5. Homework will be sent home Mon. and due Thurs. The final test will be on Fri.
*Social Studies: We finished our unit on continents and ocean. Next we will focus on hemispheres, poles, the equator, and prime meridian.
*Science: We will continue our study of ecosystems. We will work with types of ecosystems and their characteristics.
*Math: We will begin ch. 2: Addition. We will also begin our fast facts with addition problems. More information about the graded addition fact quizzes will come home soon.
Have a great weekend!
Mrs. Olsen
