MISS TREFONAS'S HOMEROOM:
HAPPY NEW YEAR & Welcome Back to school!
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IMPORTANT REMINDER: The week of January 12th we will be taking our IOWA standardized testing. It is important for your child to get a good night's sleep and healthy breakfast in order to do their best!
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Social Studies: Chapter 8 "The American Revolution"
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Science: continuing Chapter 15 "Forms of Energy"
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MISS TREFONAS'S READING, ENGLISH & SPELLING:
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Lakeview book checkout is Wednesday, January 7th!
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IOWA Tests of Basic Skills are the week of January 12th. The students will be completing the reading and language arts testS in their reading classroom. I'd like to provide a healthy snack to the class on testing days. If you can contribute an individually wrapped snack, (cereal bars, fruit snacks, graham crackers, Goldfish or cheese crackers, and/or Capri Sun or another juice drink) it would be greatly appreciated!! THANKS!!!
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SPELLING: Lesson 17 Review Lesson - The final test is multiple choice format.
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ENGLISH: Verbs! We are finishing the chapter and the test is Friday.
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READING: We will be practicing some word usage skills: homonyms, idioms, and analogies.
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We will also be starting BOOK CLUBS! The students will have a choice of a literature selection to read and will be responsible for completing a "Book club discussion sheet". This sheet has the children apply the reading strategies of summarizing, predicting, connecting, and questioning.
There will be 3 book club discussion sheets to be completed during this activity. The students need to follow the guidelines which I will be providing in order to pace themselves. They will be given class time, but this also requires at home reading and working on the discussion sheet.
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SCOOPer Reading: We are in the 2nd trimester and many students have read and completed more than one book activity!
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VOCAB CLUB: December words due January 5th! January words due at the end of the month.
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MISS TREFONAS'S MATH CLASS:
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Chapter 6 Decimals - Rounding, adding and subtracting and estimating sums
TEST is WEDNESDAY, January 7th. We will be reviewing in class but studying should take place at home too! This was a short chapter and the students have been doing very well with the concepts.
IOWA TESTS OF BASIC SKILLS are being given the week of January 12th. The students will be given the math sections of the test in our math class. I would like to provide a healthy snack to the class during testing days. If you can contribute an individually wrapped snack (fruit snack, cereal bars, Goldfish or cheese crackers, graham crackers, Capri-Sun or another juice drink) it would certainly help! Thanks!!!!
HAPPY 2009!!!
