Weeks of 11/25 and 12/2

Happy Thanksgiving!

Today is the end of Trimester 1. Grades will be finalized soon. What a great first part of the school year! I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving break with your families. This blog will include information for the next 2 weeks.

UPCOMING EVENTS: 

* Mon. 11/25:  Gratitude Calendars Due

*Tues. 11/26: DOL Quiz

Wed-Fri 11/27-29: No School: Happy Thanksgiving!

A LOOK AT NEXT WEEK: 

*Reading/ELA: We are working on reading and writing our own fables. We are also working on nouns and wrote about what we are thankful with applying our knowledge of nouns: a person, place, and thing. We will be starting our next unit when we return from break, a study of culture and immigration and traditions. We begin with the story A Keeping Quilt.  

The disguised turkeys looked amazing! The students did a great job persuading the farmer to save each one. They are display in the Fab Lab window being enjoyed by all who walk by.

*Spelling: New word sorts will be going home on Mon. 12/2. 3 activities and the test will be on 12/13.

*Science: We will continue our new science curriculum as we study traits and inheritance. We will begin this unit on 12/2.

*Mrs. Olsen's Math class: Unit 2 continues with work on multiplication strategies. Please have your child study their facts every night! There will be a short checkpoint on multiplication on 11/25. We will focus on 2's x facts the week of 12/2 with a graded fact test on 12/6.

Have a great weekend and Happy Thanksgiving!

Mrs. Olsen

Week of 11/18

Odds and Ends: 

The end of the trimester is Fri. 11/22.  Grades will be finalized soon. What a great first part of the school year! The students are working hard and learning so much! 

* Bowling Snacks: Mrs. Cushing has sent out an email regarding bowling snacks. The link is available here as well: 

https://forms.gle/LPQapqB14uW9QiQu6

UPCOMING EVENTS: 

* Fri. 11/22: Spelling: 3 activities due and test

Scholastic Book Order due

Math: x0 and x1 math facts  

*Mon. 11/25: Gratitude Calendar Due to join in special grade level feast

*Tues. 11/26: 3rd grade special Gratitude Feast 

A LOOK AT NEXT WEEK: 

*Reading: We worked  fluency, context clues, and expression and we did readers theaters' with myths this week. Check out our seesaw posts for pictures of the performances today. They all did a great job! We will continue to work on leveled texts in small groups next week  as we continue our study of folktales. 

*Spelling: We are in the second week of our spelling lists. The 3 activities and test is Fri. 11/22. 

*Social Studies: Special thanks to our parent volunteers Mrs. Zapata, Mrs. Puelo, Mrs. Antonopoulos, Mr. Brooks, and Mrs. Tylka for joining us on our Downers Grove field trip. Despite the snowy day, we had a great time!

*Mrs. Olsen's Math class: Unit 2 continues with work on multiplication strategies. Please have your child study their facts every night!  Starting next week, we will take a weekly fact test on Fridays up to 12's.  Here is the schedule: 

week of 11/18: x0 and x1 facts

week of 12/2: x2 facts

week of 12/9: x5 facts

week of 12/16: x10 facts

We will resume after break in the following order: x11, x3, x4, x6, x7, x8, x9, and x12. The order is so we get the easier facts done first and build confidence and practice over time. Please have your child use flashcards or other games or strategies to practice facts every night to build math fluency!  Thank you!

Enjoy your weekend!

Mrs. Olsen 

Have a great weekend and Happy Thanksgiving!

Mrs. Olsen

Week of 11/11

Odds and Ends:

Our Downers Grove field trip is on Mon. 11/11. Please have your child dress for walking and for the weather as we get off and on the bus throughout the day.   Also, you can send a snack in with your child if they would like to eat it before we leave.

Veteran's Day: In honor of Veteran's Day, we will have a school wide assembly honoring veteran's who have a Prairieview connection. It is a very emotional and touching assembly and meant so much to the students and veterans. Please ask your child about this special assembly. 

UPCOMING EVENTS:

*Mon. 11/11: Downers Grove Field Trip

*Wed. 11/13: Disguised Turkeys due 

A LOOK AT NEXT WEEK: 

*Reading: We will continue to discuss myth's as we learn about King Midas and reading other myths as we work on readers theatre. We are focusing on character traits and using text evidence to help answer questions. We are also focusing on fluency, articulation, and public speaking through our readers theatre. 

*English: We will be using our disguised turkeys (which are due Wed) to write a persuasive paragraph to convince the farmer not to eat him/her on Thanksgiving! We will also work on nouns. 

*Mrs. Olsen's Math Class: We will take a step back to Unit 2 which is an introduction to Multiplication. 

Hope you had a great weekend!
Mrs.Olsen