Dear Parents,
This week is conference week. I will have a copy of your child's report card. Please think of any questions or concerns you have and would like to discuss.
There is NO SCHOOL on FRIDAY due to parent/teacher conferences.
*Paper Recycling Fundraiser Comes to Prairieview: We are happy to announce we can now raise money for our district by recycling paper! You can help us out, too! Please collect any paper you are going to throw away or recycle (office and school paper, newspaper, magazines and catalogs, and construction paper---no cardboard!) and send it in with your child to school or drop it off at the green and yellow Paper Retriever bin in the Lakeview parking lot (near the fence by the Prairieview playground). The bin is available for drop offs 24/7. The more paper we recycle, the more money we can make! Do something good for our schools AND the environment!
Thank you!
The students of Project Challenge grades 3-5 are participating in a Lion's Club Holiday Drive. We are looking for donations such as new toys, new games, toiletries, and food for the needy families in the Darien area. If you wish to participate you will need to bring the donations in by December 13. Remember that some of these families live right here in Darien. So let's help these families have a happy holiday season. PLEASE DONATE!
HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR CLASSROOM:
SPELLING: Lesson 12 Review lesson and word of the week
SCOOPer READING: I hope that during the Thanksgiving holiday there was a chance to read and work on a book activity. I hope to have a lot of book meetings this week!
READING: We will continue to review summarizing, drawing conclusions, inferring, identifying author generalizations, visualizing, and word work with vocabulary words using our realistic fiction novels until December 2nd.
Next week, we will review main ideas and details using our skills workbook. Our work with extended response will continue as well.
We will be having book club discussions with our novel CRASH. An end of the book activity will be assigned and due on Monday, December 6th.
SOCIAL STUDIES: Chapter 7 Fight for a Continent
We will be covering Lesson 1 "The Spanish Move North", Lesson 2 "French Explore Mississippi", and Lesson 3 "French and Indian War".
SCIENCE: We will be learning about the energy pyramid and the 10% rule.
We are finishing this unit and testing on Tuesday, December 7th.
MATH: Mean, Median, Mode and Range
An assessment will be given on Thursday.
