Friday, October 12, 2012

The Week of October 15th, 2012

Dear Parents,

     The BOOK FAIR is this week!!! There will be great books to purchase and delicious TAFFY APPLES!!!  I hope to see you Thursday night!! The doors open at 6:30 and it goes until 8:00!  I plan on bringing my nieces and nephews that the class heres me talk about!!  The triplets are in 6th grade and AJ is 2 1/2! 

HERE's WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THE CLASSROOM:

SPELLING:  Lesson 7 & word of the week

SCOOPer READING:  DUE FRIDAY!!! **The students have been reminded that I will only allow one book activity to be turned in at a time. 

READING:  Jacob's Rescue continued.....

ENGLISH: We are taking a break to fit in some extra social studies material to learn about the ELECTION process and the candidates and the issues they are debating.

SOCIAL STUDIES:  The next colonists we will be learning about are the Puritans.
The last lesson in the chapter will cover the 13 colonies!
A test will be given the week of October 22nd!

SCIENCE:  The students are almost finshed creating an interactive MIMEO on weather.  This has been an exciting learning experience!

MATH:  QUIZ Monday which will cover Chapter 3 Lessons 1 - 5.
Next, we will be dividing by 2 digit divisors.
The Chapter 3 Test will be the week of October 22nd.