I am writing this blog Thursday morning (4/15/10) and hoping to see most of you at our Prarieview Open House/Book Fair tonight from 6:30 -8:00pm. Your child has a lot of work on display in the classroom. Hopefully, the students will proudly show off their hard work!
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*Important Dates = Tuesday, April 20th is our halfway point of 3rd trimester. A progress report will be mailed home to any student receiving less than a C in any subject. Please take time to go on to parent connect and check your child's grades.
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*Early Dismissal = Thursday, April 22nd = 11:00
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HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR CLASSROOM:
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SPELLING: Lesson 31 and word of the week
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ENGLISH: Unit 6 Pronouns - object pronouns, using I and me correctly, and possessive pronouns
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READING: We are reinforcing the reading strategies learned this year as we complete Toliver's Secret. The children will be doing a culminating activity which will emphasize the details of a scene or setting from the book. They will be creating a setting corner.
Next, we will continue to work on the reading strategies of summarizing, questioning, and predicting, as we do "Book Clubs". The child will have select a book to read and be part of a group reading the same novel. They will work on each of these reading strategies independently as they complete a book club discussion sheet which they will use during their book meetings.
The first book meeting will be Friday, April 23rd.
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SCOOPer READING: I continue to be impressed with the students' book selections and enjoy meeting with them discussing the book and the book activity. They should be halfway done with their goal.
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SOCIAL STUDIES: Chapter 11 Lesson 1 "Washington as President" and Lesson 2 "Thomas Jefferson Looks West"
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SCIENCE: We will be learning about mixtures and solutions and more about phsysical changes.
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MATH: Chapter 22 measurement continued.....
Lesson 5 Metric capacity and weight
Lesson 7 Elapsed time
Lesson 8 Temperature
We will be testing the following week.
