Monday, October 22, 2007

The Week of 10-22-07 in Miss Trefonas's Class

Dear Parents,
It was nice seeing so many of you at the Book Fair Thursday evening.
Thanks to all of you who purchased a book for the classroom. Your gift is greatly appreciated.

***Can you help? Donations needed for our classroom!***
~Lysol or Clorax disinfecting cleaning wipes (for desk cleaning/disinfecting)
~"healthy" individually wrapped snacks
~packages of decorated pencils

PICTURE RETAKES: are scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 30th . Students must have original picture packets in hand to have a retake. If your child was absent on the first picture day, they will have to have their original order envelope with them at the time of retakes.

HERE’S WHAT’S HAPPENING THIS WEEK:

Spelling = Lesson 8 Review lesson! We will be reviewing words from Lessons 1-7.
Friday’s test will be multiple choice format.
No word of the week during a review week.

English = Unit 5 Capitalization & Punctuation....Interjections, Quotations, and Abbreviations!

Reading = Mastery test on all the "Determining Word Skills" from the ISAT workbook.
This is not a test the children can study for because it's an application of skills learned.
We will be starting a literature unit at the end of the week with Kid in the Red Jacket.

SCOOPer Reading…….keep reading and working on book activities!!!
Goal due date is 11/12/7!

Social Studies = Monday we will be watching Pocahantas as a culminating activity for chapter 5. We are starting Chapter 6 "Life in English Colonies". Lesson 1 is about working and trading in the colonies. To extend the children's understanding of trading, and to introduce the concept of supply and demand, we will be having a classroom TRADE FAIR. Directions for this event will be given this week. The TRADE FAIR will take place on Friday, November 2nd.

Science = Vocabulary quiz = Monday.
We will be filling out Pilot Applications to receive a Flight License for our next unit, Flight & Rocketry!!

Math = Chapter 5 test is Tuesday, October 23rd. Next, is chapter 4 and multiplication facts!
Your child needs to practice, practice, practice their multiplication facts!

Your partner in education~
Miss Trefonas