Thursday, October 28, 2010

The Week of November 1st, 2010

Dear Parents,
Thanks to the party and treat moms who went out of their way to make our Halloween celebration festive and SPOOKtacular!
Treats and drinks = Mrs. Brindac, Mrs. Campbell, and Mrs. Baer.
Party helpers = Mrs. David, Mrs. Herstowski, Mrs. Olsen, Mrs. Dygdon, Mrs. Brandt & Mrs. Smiles.

Thanks also to the following families for donating goodies to our classroom last
week:
~Mrs. Reynolds, Mrs. Wiseman, Mrs. Dusza, Mrs. Baer, Mrs. Olsen, Mrs. Szyptek, and Mrs. Dygdon

If you can donate......(Thanks in advance....)
The classroom needs: scratch n sniff stickers (Let's Learn is the best place to find these!)
Goldfish crackers

Great news:
The students earned a reward party in art class for PAWS earned. Have them explain this to you!

and more Great News..... We had an exciting Trade Fair! Everyone had their homemade items to trade and did a great job participating in this activity. We had lots of fun and it was a great learning experience!

and even more GREAT NEWS..... Our class will be getting a pizza party for turning in the most Box Tops!!! Start collecting again!!!!

HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR CLASSROOM:

SPELLING: Lesson 9 and word of the week....
Work due Thursday and Test Friday

READING: This week, we will review all the skills we have studied so far this school year, specifically, summarizing, drawing conclusions, inferencing, identifying author generalizations, and visualizing while reading CRASH, a realistic fiction novel.

SCOOPer Reading: Monday, November 1st = 1st Trimester goal is due!
All book activities must be completed and turned in.
The students have been given several reminders about this and how only one book activity at a time can be turned in.

ENGLISH: We are finishing Chapter 5 Capitalization and Punctuation - Test is Mon., Nov. 8th

SOCIAL STUDIES: We will be finishing Lesson 3 of Chapter 6.
This means your child can review both lessons 2 and 3!
The students will be getting directions about making a colonial game which will be due Tuesday, Nov. 9th.
JR. ACHIEVEMENT....week # 4 with Mr. and Ms. Paleka

SCIENCE: We are finishing Lesson 1 of Chapter 5.....
Can your child sing the Photosynthesis song to you? "How do plants make their food......

MATH: We are finishing Chapter 5.
Test = Friday, November 5th.