*Parent Teacher Conferences: 11/26-11/28
*Spelling Test Thursday 11/29
*Book orders due 11/29 or online by 11/30
*No School Friday 11/30
Classroom Chatter
*Book orders went home last week. I encourage everyone who is ordering to check out ordering online. It is fast, safe, and easy! If you choose not to order online, the paper orders and check is due by Thursday. Online orders will be due by Friday. Thank you.
*Conferences are this week. Please be ontime for you conference. It is only a 15 minute time slot. I look forward to meeting with all parents this week.
*Some changes for second trimester are as follows. The homework grade (late slips) will be 5 points instead of 10. I also will be taking a grade in spelling once a week. This will be either from the spelling workbook or the ABC order sheet.
*Thank you to Maria who donated items to the Treasure Chest. Thank you to Payton for bringing in some gifts for our adopted family.
*I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Check out this website below. The Csorba family was elfed over the holidays. Enjoy!
Spelling
Lesson 13 is this week. These words are past tense words with a final y. There is no pretest this week. The test is Thursday due to no school on Friday. The list is in the spelling folder.
English
We will continue with verbs this week. We will learn about the special verb be and helping verbs.
Reading
We will be traveling back in time as we explore Egypt. Student will be reading and learning about Ancient Egypt for our next reading unit. This week we will begin by reading a book called, Eye on Ancient Egypt. Students will be working on predictions and main idea this week as we read.
Social Studies
We will begin chapter 2 this week. Chapter 2 teaches us about three types of communities: rural, suburban, and urban. We will be testing out of this chapter the week before we break for the holidays.
Science
We will begin our unit on Space next week.
Math
We will finish up chapter 3 on multiplication and division. This week we will be learning about division and the properties of division. Students will also be taking the x4 mad minute. We will continue with problem solving by making a table and working on T-charts as well.
