Important Dates
Monday, Oct.13th - No School due to Columbus Day Holiday!
Thursday, Oct. 16th - Book Fair @ Prairieview 6:30 pm to 8:00 pm-See you there!
Wednesday, Oct. 22nd - Early Dismissal @ 11:00!Friday, Oct.24th-Fieldtrip "The Legend of Pocahontas" **This is the rescheduled date!**
~Students need to bring a lunch. We might not be back in time for our hot lunch program.
MISS TREFONAS'S HOMEROOM:
SCIENCE: We will be starting Matter & Energy! The students will be making a MEMORY card game with their lesson 1 vocabulary words. Thursday,the students will be doing an activity with a Mystery Box !
SOCIAL STUDIES:
Jr. Achievement begins! Jr. Achievement is a not-for-profit organization financed by businesses. The purpose of Jr. Achievement is to educate and inspire students to value free enterprise, business, and econmics to improve the quality of their lives. Our volunteers, Ms. and Mr. Paleka, will be visiting our classroom once a week for the next 6 weeks. Ms. Paleka works for Harley Davidson Financial, and Mr. Paleka works for Tellalabs. They have been the volunteers for my classroom for the past 7 years! I'm sure your student will be sharing some of their experiences with this program during the next few weeks!
Chapter 6 "Life in English Colonies" Lesson 1 - Working and Trading
MISS TREFONAS'S READING, ENGLISH, & SPELLING:
SPELLING: Lesson 7 and word of the week!
ENGLISH: Unit 5 Capitalization & Punctuation - Quotations, Abbreviations and Titles!
We are FINISHING the unit this week and testing on Tuesday, October 21st!
VOCAB CLUB: 10 words are due at the end of October! Students must be able to pronounce words correctly.
SCOOPer READING: The first trimester goal is due Friday, November 14th!
Each child has been given reminders of what their goal is and how many books and activities have been completed.
READING: Main Idea and Details & Sequencing are the reading skills we are working on this week!
MISS TREFONAS'S MATH CLASS:
MATH: Chapter 3 Division - Lessons 3 - 6. We are doing long division with zeros in the quotient, learning about patterns in division, and estimating with 2 digit divisors.
Friday the students will be filling in a homework sheet. After we grade each day's homework, the students should fix any errors and safely keep their assignments in their binder in their math pocket.
Quiz on Friday, October17th!
