Thursday, December 13, 2012

The Week of December 17th, 2012

Dear Parents,

Some reminders for this week:

Tuesday 12/18 -   8:05 am in Prairieview gym - Choir and 5th grade band concert....
                             Parents/guests are welcome to attend!

Wednesday 12/19 -
5th grade Bowling Field Trip to Brunswick Lanes
Students need to know their shoe size.
Money for snacks is allowed and a special is being offered: 
(2 slices of cheese pizza with a 16oz. = $3.23)
STUDENTS NEED TO BRING THEIR LUNCH....ordering lunch from our lunch program will not be  available.

Friday 12/21 - Our last day of school before our winter break!  We are going to the Tivoli to see Polar Express!

HERE'S WHAT WE ARE UP TO IN THE CLASSROOM:

SPELLING:  Lesson 13 and word of the week

SCOOPer Reading: The due date for books read and activities completed is January 11th.

READING:  We are continuing to do various activities with main idea and supporting details.
The students were given a challenge on an activity sheet "Elimination" which they had to find which word did not belong or have an association with the other words.  This process involves evaluating each word and finding a catagory that all the words but one fit into.  The students have had to dig into "resources" to analyze some of these words!!

ENGLISH:  We have finished Unit 6 Pronouns and will be reviewing the material on Monday.
Unit 6 Pronoun Test = Wednesday.

SOCIAL STUDIES:  We are not beginning Chapter 7 until after break!

SCIENCE:  We will be finishing Chapter 14 Lesson 1 as we review what they already know about the three states of matter and build on that knowledge!

MATH:  Homework sheet  = Monday!
Graphing of ordered pairs which includes some holiday fun activities with this skill!