Week of 5/16/16 - 5/20/16

Field Trip to the Shedd Aquarium: We had a had a wonderful time on our field trip. Thank you so much to Elijah's family and Diamond's mom for helping with the trip!!!

COMING UP:

Spelling:  The new spelling list will come home on Monday. Homework Menu (6 activities) and Test are due/will be on Wednesday, 5/25/16.

Reading & Language Arts:  Students are working on a Character Poster in class from The One and Only Ivan. Each chooses a character from the story, creates a word cloud describing the character, and supports their findings with excerpts from the text. We’ll start reading Night of the Pufflings and working on our final writing piece - argumentative. In stations, students read stories on Raz-Kids and build comprehension.

Our friendly letters to our 2nd Grade Pen Pals were delivered last week. Our Pen Pals are from Mrs. Walega's 2nd Grade Class over at Ide. We can't wait for them to visit us at Prairieview on 5/27/16. We look forward to getting letters back from them soon.

We look forward to hearing from Jokubas this week about his visit with Ivan. : )

Keep Reading for 20 minutes daily!

Social Science:  We continue with Chapter 4, Lesson 2 Ecosystems on Monday. We have started building an animal's ecosystem with the rock and shoebox your child brought in. This topic ties in with our field trip to the Shedd Aquarium.

Mrs. Lopez & Mrs. Forsman's Math Class:   

We continue with Unit 8: Bridge Design & Construction using data collection and analysis.
This month, students will be researching, designing and constructing model bridges. Students designed, constructed, and tested Beam Bridges.

 
  


We're reaching out to families for material donations. We are in need of:

• paper towel tubes
• toilet paper tubes
• straws
• foil
• newspapers
• manila file folders
• fishing line
• cotton string
• copper wire
• rubber bands
• marshmallows
• masking tape
• paper clips
• twist ties (like from the grocery store, produce section)

Please email me at hlopez@ccsd66.org if you can donate any items. Thank you!!!

IMPORTANT DATES:

5/27 - 2nd Graders visit
5/30 - No School (Memorial Day holiday)
5/31 - 3rd Grade Bowling Field Trip
6/2 - Field Day
6/3 - Last Day of School (1/2 day of school)

Have a wonderful weekend!
- Mrs. Lopez