Friday, October 18, 2013

The Week of October 21, 2013

Dear Parents,

THURSDAY = EARLY DISMISSAL - 11:00
FRIDAY = BINGO NIGHT !!!


It was nice to see so many of you at the Book Fair.  I have many people to thank for the generous donations to our classroom library.  I have not yet had a chance to go through the stack on the side of my desk......
The kids will be excited too!! Thank you!!!

Thank you to Mrs. Sprandel and Mrs. Padavic for the fun Halloween goodies and prizes!!

Thank you Mrs. Mantri, Mrs. Gustafson, and Mrs. Copeland for sending in snacks to go along with our pizza party that we earned for the most participation in the Magazine Sale fundraiser.

The PTO is selling coupon books this year to help fund the purchase of tablets for our students.  If you wish to purchase a book, please send in $25 made payable to the Prairieview PTO.  If you do not wish to buy the book, please send it back with your student.  The deadline is October 29th.  The books have some great local coupons in them and really pay for themselves while the school gets half the money of all books sold!  The grade that sells the most books (15 books minimum) will get a movie and a treat on Tuesday, November 26th and each grade level student who sells the most books (5 book minimum) will get a $100 Target gift card!  Please contact Pam Topp (pam_topp@yahoo.com) or Maureen Gibbons (maureen.gibbons@comcast.net) if you have questions or would like more books to sell.  There are some great holiday shopping discounts available....take a look!!!!



HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR CLASSROOM:

SPELLING:  Lesson 8 and word of the week

ENGLISH:  Unit 5 Capitalization & Punctuation Test
Next, Unit 2 Nouns - Enrichment activity writing a story and turning it into a Mad Lib!!

READING:  Analogies
Analogy relationships between synonyms/antonyms, objects (nouns)/actions (verbs), cause/effect

SOCIAL STUDIES:   Chapter 6 Life in the English Colonies - Lesson 1 Working and Trading

SCIENCE:  Weather Project...Monday the rough draft of the  project is due.  The students need to have 5 topics explained in detail with interesting topic sentences and main ideas.  Four of the topics are using what we learned and one is a weather topic for them to learn more about.
Monday we will be creating a slide show presentation using Google with the assistance of Mrs. Foellmer.

MATH:  Chapter  2 Test  = Monday
Chapter 3 Lesson 1 Relating multiplication and division
Chapter 3 Lesson 2 and Lesson 3 2 digit division with remainders