Thursday, April 8, 2010

The Week of April 12, 2010

Dear Parents:

Some reminders......

~Open House/Book Fair = Thursday, April 15 6:30-8:00 pm

~GEOSPACE with the DuPage Children's Museum here at PV on Weds. April 14th!

Parent helpers = Mrs. Fisher, Mrs. Kling, and Mrs. Stanuch. Please be here at 8:15! Thanks!

~Early Dismissal = Thursday, April 22nd @ 11:00

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HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE CLASSROOM:

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SPELLING: lesson 30 and word of the week

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ENGLISH: Persuasive writing......we will be typing our final copies on Monday. Students

should have all their editing and proofreading done for Monday.

A Persuasive Prompt that will be written in class will be given this week.

Next, we go back to our English books and begin our unit on Pronouns.

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READING: We are reinforcing all the reading strategies covered during the year while reading
Toliver's Secret. Vocabulary words and picking the correct definition based on the word's context is also being reinforced while reading this literature book.



SCOOPer READING: We will be halfway through the trimester this week which means your child should be at least halfway towards meeting their 3rd trimester goal!

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SOCIAL STUDIES: Chapter 10 test = Wednesday, April 14th

As a culminating activity for Chapters 9 and 10 we will be watching National Treasure!

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SCIENCE: We will be learning about physical changes.

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MATH: We are not having math until Thursday this week due to our GeoSpace programs in our homerooms.

We will be reviewing Chapter 22 Lessons 1-3 and doing Lesson 4 "customary capacity/weight"