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!



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!