Week of 5/9/16 - 5/13/16

Field Trip to the Shedd Aquarium: Our field trip to the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago is this Thursday (5/12/16). Please make sure your child brings a sack lunch including a beverage (all completely throw-away) on Thursday.

COMING UP:

Spelling:  Homework Menu (6 activities) and Test are due/will be on Friday, 5/13.

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. In stations, students read stories on Raz-Kids and build comprehension.

For language, students continue to build their interactive iBinder with notes and a portfolio of their work samples. This week we learn when to use commas in their writing. We are writing friendly letters to our 2nd Grade Pen Pals this week. Our Pen Pals are from Mrs. Walega's 2nd Grade Class.

Thanks to Serenity for sharing her Ivan Journal experiences with us last week! 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. Your child should bring in a rock and a shoebox on Monday so that we can start building an animal's ecosystem project. 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. Partners started designing and constructing 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:

5/12 - 3rd Grade Field Trip to the Shedd Aquarium in Chicago
5/13 - Early Dismissal (PV @ 11:35am)
5/30 - No School (Memorial Day holiday)
5/31 - 3rd Grade Bowling Field Trip
6/3 - Last Day of School (1/2 day of school)

Happy Mother's Day & enjoy the beautiful weekend!
- Mrs. Lopez