Thursday, November 7, 2013

The Week of November 11, 2013

Dear Parents,

Parent/teacher conferences gave us a chance to discuss your child's academic progress, work and study habits, and their social/emotional needs.  Please know I am available at any time to discuss your child's progress.  It is important that we are all working together so your child can reach their fullest potential.

Prairieview School-Community Service Project
Animal Assisted Therapy Program-Edward Hospital
Prairieview School, in Downers Grove, (3rd, 4th and 5th Graders) is proud to have an opportunity to sponsor an Edward Hospital therapy dog.  Edward Hospital is located in Naperville, Illinois and helps many people every year who have to visit the hospital.  In order to sponsor a therapy dog, we need to raise money that will go toward the program that supports the wellness of patients in the hospital.  The students are looking forward to sponsoring, Kodi.
Prairieview School will take donations until November 19th!

If you want to learn more about this Animal Assisted Therapy Program go the the following link:  httpwww.edward.org/animalassistedtherapy

NO SCHOOL:  Friday, November 8th and Monday, November, 12th
Tuesday = We will be visiting the IMC at Lakeview to give the children an opportunity to check out the Lakeview library's selection.  This will give the children exposure to books that are available at a higher reading level. 
PROJECT CHALLENGE students will be meeting with Mrs. Csorba during the school day beginning next week.  She will be providing enrichment work that will coincide with a topic we are doing in class.
HERE's WHAT WE ARE DOING IN THE CLASSROOM:
SPELLING:  Lesson 11
ENGLISH:  Unit 6 Pronouns
Subject and Object pronouns, Using I and Me CORRECTLY!!!
READING: Theme "Courage"   

Jacob's Rescue

Once Jacob Gutgeld lived with his family in a beautiful house in Warsaw, Poland. He went to school and played hide-and-seek in the woods with his friends. But everything changed the day the Nazi soldiers invaded in 1939. Suddenly it wasn't safe to be Jewish anymore.
One afternoon, eight-year-old Jacob slipped through a hole in the ghetto wall to meet Alex Roslan, a kind Christian man who agreed to be his new "uncle." The Roslan family, at the risk of their own lives, kept Jacob's identity as a Jew hidden.
Every day of hiding meant a new danger and a threat of discovery. Jacob worried about his real family and longed to go to school and play outside like the Roslan children. The fear, the hunger, and the hardships brought Jacob closer to the Roslan family until at last they were able to begin a new chapter in their lives.


SOCIAL STUDIES:  Chapter 6 Lesson 2 Colonial Cities, Towns, and Farms
SCIENCE:  We will be doing an experiment to see compare/contrast fresh water and salt water and the temperatures and freezing points.
Lesson 2 "How Does Ocean Water Move"  We will be learning about waves and currents.
MATH:  Chapter 3
Distributive Property and Partial Quotients
Division problems with 3 and 4 digit quotients