Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. I am hoping 2008 will be a great year full of health and happiness.
Tuesday, January 8th we are going on our field trip to Naper Settlement. We will be eating lunch at Naper Settlement so a sack lunch including a drink needs to be packed. Also, it's important to dress according to Tuesday's weather because we do go outside to get from one place to another during this fieldtrip.
An important memo from the Prairieview office:
FORGOTTEN LUNCHES: Starting in January, 2008 students who do not have a lunch ticket or money will be able to borrow from the office providing there is not an outstanding balance due for lunch tickets. If your child forgets his/her hot lunch ticket or has used them all, he/she may bring $2.25 to school and purchase a ticket that day from the office staff. Students must have exact change to purchase a ticket; no change will be given. If a child has no lunch, no money and the parent cannot be contacted, he/she may borrow from school office, but only twice per trimester. Students will no longer be able to borrow lunch tickets from the lunchroom staff.
Here's What's Happening in our Classroom:
Spelling = Lesson 17 is a review lesson. This means no pretest or word of the week for this week. Friday's test will be multiple choice format.
English = continuing Unit 3 Verbs....Future Tense verbs and doing a project with verb tenses.
The project will include present, past, and future tense verbs.
Writing = We will be starting Persuasive Writing activities towards the end of the week.
Reading = Hopefully your child read and completed a book activity for Scooper Reading during our winter break. We will be doing reading skills from our ISAT practice books this week which will include summarizing and causes of events.
Social Studies = Chapter 8 Lesson 1 We are starting a “point of view” activity based on Britain taxing the colonists. The project requires your child to tell how the patriots felt about certain events and how the loyalists felt about the same events. This will be told in first person, and typically students add their own "voice" to their writing when doing this activity.
This activity continues throughout Chapter 8.
Science = Flight & Rocketry…..this week the children will receive directions for the end of the unit assessment which will be an “in class” project. We are doing this instead of a test!!!
Each day for the next 10 days, they will be getting a daily assignment on what to accomplish and may possibly have homework if it's not completed during class time.
The due date for this project will be Thursday, January 17th.
T.G.F.D. = Friday is our fourth session with Deputy K. There will be a homework assignment given. T.G.F.D. assignments will be recorded for a science grade.
Math = Chapter 7 Geometry....This week we learn about lines, angles and polygons.
Stay warm and healthy!
Miss Trefonas
