Friday, December 7, 2012

The Week of December 10th, 2012

Dear Parents,

MONDAY - Winter Concert - 5th Grade Cadet Band & PV Choir - 7:00 p.m. - LV
I look forward to being in the audience!

TUESDAY - Dist 66 PTO - Barnes & Noble Bookfair - 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m
I look forward to seeing you there! I will be at the "Welcome Station" from 5:15- 5:45with Mrs. Warkentien. Then, I will be doing some shopping!!

We have both Junior Achievement and our first Too Good For Drugs session this week (postponed from last week).

HERE'S WHAT WE ARE LEARNING THIS WEEK:

SPELLING:  Lesson 13 and word of the week

ENGLISH:  Unit 6 Pronouns  The students need to know the proper usage of a subject and object pronoun.
We will be concentrating on using I and ME correctly!!!

SCOOPer Reading - January 11th is the 2nd quarter due date.

READING:  Main Ideas and Details....The students did a fabulous job creating an outline with a nonfiction piece of literature.  We will be using a variety of materials this week to reinforce this skill.  We will even be playing a game that requires critical thinking in this area!

SOCIAL STUDIES:  We will be using this time to work on commercials for our culminating Junior Achievement activity.....commercials!!

SCIENCE:  Matter and Energy

MATH:  Wednesday = Homework sheet
              Thursday = Chapter 24 Test on Area and Volume *students may use notes with formulas and
                                 calculators!