The Week of April 28, 2008

Dear Parents,
I appreciate the book certificates that many of you purchased for me at the Book Fair. I was able to enhance my classroom library with your generousity.

THIS IS WHAT WE ARE LEARNING IN OUR CLASSROOM THIS WEEK:

SPELLING: Lesson 31 and word of the week.

ENGLISH: We will be finishing Unit 6 Pronouns by the end of the week. The Unit 6 test will be on Tuesday, May 6th.

READING: Book club meeting #2 and discussion sheet is due Monday. Book club meeting #3 and last discussion sheet will be due Friday. Those students who receive an A on both book club discussion sheet 1 & 2 are not required to do the last discussion sheet. It will be optional for those students, yet they will still be part of the discussion group.

SCOOPer Reading: Friday, May 23rd is the due date!

SOCIAL STUDIES: We are finishing Chapter 11 and the test is on Monday, May 5th.

SCIENCE: Human Body....teeth and nutrtion.

MATH: Chapter 8 Test = Monday April 28th. The students did a review test on Friday to help prepare them for the test. This are also excellent pages to use for review and practice at the end of the chapter. Chapter 9 is next which is FRACTIONS!

REMEMBER THAT SUCCESS COMES IN "CANS'...not "CAN NOTS"....

MISS TREFONAS

The Week of April 21, 2008

Dear Parents,
Important dates for this week:

*Tuesday, Earth Day! Wear green or blue or your Earth Day shirt to school!

*Thursday = Early Dismissal @ 11:00!

HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE CLASSROOM:

SPELLING: Lesson 30 and word of the week

ENGLISH: Pronouns - Contractions and Double Subjects

READING: Book Club reading and discussion sheet due Tuesday.

The second reading assignment and discussion sheet will be Friday.

Book Clubs use the following reading strategies: summarizing, questioning, predicting, and making connections.

SOCIAL STUDIES: Lewis and Clark and their great journey west......

SCIENCE: Human Body - Teeth...and I'm telling you the tooth and nothing but the tooth!

MATH: Chapter 8 Problem Solving: Choosing a Strategy

Checkpoint quiz on Tuesday!

Lessons 10 and 11 = dividing by decimals

GO CUBS!

MISS TREFONAS

The Week of April 14, 2008

Dear Parents,
Open House is this Thursday from 6:45 - 8:30!!! Please try your hardest to come and see all the wonderful work on display. It's a special night for your child to show off their accomplishments and hard work. Also, we have our spring Book Fair in the gymnasium.
I look forward to seeing you Thursday!

HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE CLASSROOM THIS WEEK:

SPELLING: Lesson 29 and "word of the week"

ENGLISH: Unit 6 Pronouns! Your child should know the difference between a subject and object pronoun by the end of the week. We will also be reviewing how to use I and ME correctly!

READING: China travel brochures due Tuesday!

Next, we begin BOOK CLUBS. Your child will be choosing a literature book and then required to read the first section of the book and do the Book Club sheet which is used for their book club discussion group meeting and graded. The sheet includes the following reading strategies: summarizing, questioning, connecting, and predicting.

A due date for the first reading assignment will be given as the books and sheets are distributed later in the week.

SCOOPer READING........your child should be reading and doing book activities!

SOCIAL STUDIES: Chapter 11 - Lesson 1 "Washington as President"

and Lesson 2 "Jefferson Looks West" will be completed by the end of the week.

Once again, I suggest that your child begins reviewing after we finish each lesson.

SCIENCE: We are doing what I had planned for last week....finishing respiratory system and learning about our skin. Science was not our priority last week.

MATH: Chapter 8 Multipyling Decimals and Multi-step Problem Solving.

Lessons 1-7 will be covered this week. The checkpoint quiz will be the week of April 21st!

WELCOME SPRING!!! GO CUBS!!!

Miss Trefonas

The Week of April 7, 2008

Dear Parents and Students,
Baseball season has begun! GO CUBS!

Here are the upcoming Prairieview Spirit Days:

Friday, April 11th = Baseball Day (I look forward to seeing CUBS spirit wear!)

Friday, April 18th = Rock Band Day - Wear your favorite rock group, choir, or band appearal!Friday, April 25th = Decade Day - dress up in the 50's, 60's, 70's,etc

SAVE THE DATE....THURSDAY, APRIL 17th OPEN HOUSE!!!

HERE'S WHAT'S HAPPENING IN OUR CLASSROOM:

SPELLING =Lesson 28 and "word of the week" *(We skipped lessons 26 & 27)

ENGLISH =Unit 4 Adjectives.... proper adjectives and adjective poems.

Test is scheduled for Thursday!

READING = SCOOPer Reading.....Most students have read and done at least one book activity for their 3rd trimester goal.

CHINA...... Due date for travel brochure research is MONDAY! The students have been sharing awesome facts as they have been researching!

SOCIAL STUDIES =Chapter 10 - Test is Tuesday!
During this chapter, the children have done solos, duets, or trio performances of "We the People"! There have been some remixes and creative performances....your child can fill you in!
The children will have a "fill in the blank" section on the Chapter 10 test, without a word bank, for the Preamble.

SCIENCE =Human Body We are finishing the "Respiratory System" and then we will be learning about "Skin"!

MATH =Chapter 6 Long division....dividing by 2 - digits!

Chapter test = Wednesday!

YOUR PARTNER IN LEARNING.....
MISS TREFONAS