Friday, October 4, 2013

The Week of October 7th, 2013


Dear Parents,

MANY THANKS to Mrs. Gustafson, Mrs. Alvarez, Mrs. Scheck, Mrs. Cullen, and Mrs. Silanskis for the generous Halloween treats/prizes!!!

THANK YOU to the many parents who dropped off donations for the Famous Fido Garage Sale to raise funds for homeless cats and dogs.  Please hope the weather cooperates and we don't have to postpone after all the preparation etc.....

CLASSROOM DONATIONS NEEDED:
  *Halloween stickers, prizes, for classroom rewards.
 *Individually wrapped packages of snacks (on the "healthier" side) with Halloween packaging.....pretzels, Rice Krispie treats, fruit snacks.....etc to fill a SPECIAL TREAT CAULDRON!!!!

HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE CLASSROOM:

SPELLING:  Lesson 6 and word of the week 

ENGLISH:  Unit 5 "Capitalization and Punctuation"  COMMAS,,,,,,,We have been learning the many different correct uses for this punctuation mark.  We will be doing an enrichment project "Why commas make a BIG difference"  Following commas are ! interjections !  and  " quotations" .

READING:  COURAGE.....We will be reading both fiction and non fiction text and be focusing on making inferences about characters, vocabulary, and comprehension.

SOCIAL STUDIES:  We have been learning about the early colonization of America....New Spain, New France, New Netherland, and New England.
We will be learning more about the 13 New England colonies!

SCIENCE:  Weather....measuring weather and weather instruments,  weather masses and fronts, and weather patterns and climates.

MATH:  Chapter 2
Lesson 4 Multiplication Patterns
Lesson 5 Make a Table
Lesson 6 and 7 Distributive Property of Multiplication
Lesson 8 Estimating Products
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