Thursday, October 30, 2008

The Week of November 3, 2008

Dear Parents:
No School Tuesday, November 4th!
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The Social Studies committee is looking for two parents who have an education or history background to be involved in the adoption of new Social Studies textbooks. You would have to meet with the committee and provide input choosing our textbook for the coming years. The Social Studies committee will be meeting once every other month for the next two years. Please email jtrefonas@ccsd66.org if you would be interested in joining the Social Studies committee.
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MORE IMPORTANT INFORMATION.................
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The online student edition of Science textbooks, HSP Science, for Prairieview students (grades 3-5) is now available on line. To access the online book, use the website:
http://www.thinkcentral.com
Choose: Illinois
Choose :Center Cass School District 66
Choose :Prairieview
Login with your students 7digit school ID – the same ID you use to access Parent Connect.
Password for all Prairieview students is ccsd66.
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MISS TREFONAS'S HOMEROOM:
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SOCIAL STUDIES: Chapter 6 - We will be finishing the chapter this week and testing Monday, Nov. 10th!
-Colonial Games due Monday, Nov. 3rd!
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SCIENCE: Physical Changes
There are a lot of difficult vocabulary words/terms! Students should be studying with their vocab cards......
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MISS TREFONAS'S READING, SPELLING, AND ENGLISH CLASS:
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SPELLING: Lesson 11 and "word of the week"
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ENGLISH: continuing Unit 2 Nouns.......
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READING: We begin the reading strategy of making INFERENCES!!!! We will begin by reading a story entitled "A Boy Called Slow" in our reading basals.
We will be completing an activity sheet entitled "Reading Between the Lines" as we do exactly that! The students will also be doing a character inferencing sheet!
The students will learn how predicting and inferencing are similar and different!
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VOCAB CLUB: October words were due 10/31.
10 November words are due at the end of the month.
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SCOOPer Reading: The first trimester goal is due November 14th!
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MISS TREFONAS'S MATH CLASS:
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MATH: Chapter 4 Algebra Expressions & Equations
The students are taking notes of terms and examples!
There are a lot of new concepts, some of which are difficult!