Friday, April 12, 2013

The Week of April 15, 2014

Dear Parents,

It was nice to see so many parents at the Too Good For Drugs graduation.
Congratulations to: Rose for being chosen to share her essay!!!
                             Lizzy for winning 1st place in the Citizen's Bank essay contest!!!
                             Joey for winning 2nd place in the Citizen's Bank essay contest!!!
                             **This competition included other schools.....WOW!!!
                             Kate for being chosen as an IPA(Illinois Principals Association) award winner.

......and to the entire class for successfully completing the Too Good For Drugs program and promising to make good decisions in their future!!!


Phil Schwarz, weatherman from CHANNEL 7, will be talking with the fifth graders this Tuesday morning!!!
Please have your child watch the channel 7 weekend weather this Sunday to see what he looks like!




OPEN HOUSE......THURSDAY!!!! Come see all your child's  work on display and visit the Book Fair!!!


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

SPELLING:  Lesson 28 and word of the week

ENGLISH:  Unit 3 Verbs - Test Thursday

SCOOPer Reading:  Each child should try to have a book read and activity completed by the end of the week in order to not fall behind......
READING:  finishing our China unit!

SOCIAL STUDIES:  We will be learning the meaning of "Yankee Doodle" and how it became a popular rhyme/song during the Revolutionary War.  The students will then create an original version using a historical figure!
We will also be learning more about Benjamin Franklin before we begin Chapter 10.

SCIENCE:  Chapter 5 Plants

MATH:  continuing Chapter 12 Fractions.....  Simplest Form and Mixed Numbers this week!
Wednesday = Quiz Lessons 1-3