Week of January 28-February 1

Important Dates:

*English test Thursday 1/31

*Spelling test Friday 2/1

*Spirit Day Friday 2/1 Wear favorite football team in honor of the Super Bowl

Classroom Chatter

Information went home a few weeks ago regarding the National Spelling Bee. Don't forget the District Spelling Bee will be February 8th. My classroom will be having two spelling bees to obtain winners who will participate in the 3rd grade bee and possibly the District bee. The third grade spelling bee will be on Friday, 2/1. This week I will hold a practice spelling bee and then a real spelling bee and the final two students will be our classroom winners and compete in Friday's 3rd grade bee for a chance to move to the District bee.

Spelling

L. 20's words are spelled with er. The test is Friday. We will have a pretest on Monday. Spelling lists will go home on Monday.

English

We will finish unit 4 on Adjectives and Adverbs with a test on Thursday. I will go over the study guide (it went home on Friday and should be in the Language Arts folder) on Wednesday.

Reading

We will finish up unit 4 in our Illinois workbook. The quiz over this material will be Monday 2/4. I'll send home a review to practice for the quiz before the weekend. We also will continue working in our Test Ready books. We also will begin writing extended responses to begin preparing for March's ISAT tests. We will be using a Hambuger picture to help organize our response. It is to stay in the reading folder.

Social Studies
We will work on our maps this week.

Science

This week we will spend learning about the sun. We also will learn why we have seasons and eclipses.

Math

Students should be studying x11's this week. We will continue to work in chapter 11 on geometry. This week we will study circles, congruent shapes, similar shapes, and symmetry. We will also share our graphs we've been working on. We also will continue working to prepare for ISAT tests. We will be doing some problem solving and continue work in our practice test packets.

Week of January 21-25

Important Dates:

*No School Monday 1/21

*Book orders due Monday 1/21 online only (paper orders were due 1/18)

*Science Quiz Thursday 1/24

*Spelling Test Friday 1/25

Classroom Chatter

Book orders are due Monday. I appreciate all orders. I will send the books home when they arrive.

Box tops, pop tabs, and soup labels are some things we are constantly collecting. Please keep sending them in. Thanks.

Thank you to Mackenzie. She donated items to our treasure chest.




Spelling
We are skipping L. 18's writing unit. This week is L. 19. They are words spelled with or. The test is scheduled for Friday. There is no pretest due to the shortened week. The list is in the spelling folders.




English
This week we will learn about adverbs and using to, two, and too. Look for our adjective book, Several Silly Adjective Sentences, our class made last week. I will send it home with a student each night. Thanks.



Reading
We will wrap up things with Egypt in the beginning of the week. We will continue to work in lesson 4 in our Illinois workbooks.



Science
This week we will finish up learning about the moon with a short quiz on Thursday. Please review notes, space booklet and study guide. The study guide and notes will come home Tuesday. We will then begin learning about the sun.





Social Studies
We will finish up our map skills unit with a project. Students will make a map of a make-believe town. Their maps will include a key with map symbols and a scale.



Math
Students will take x10 mad minute. We will begin our next unit on Geometry. Students will also be working on making graphs this week with their partner. We also will be doing some problem solving and t-charts.

Week of January 14-18

Important Dates
*Spelling Test Friday 1/18
*Spirit Day Friday-Wear Prairieview colors or PV shirt/sweatshirt
*Book orders due Monday 1/21



Classroom Chatter
Thank you to Payton, Sarah, Mackenzie, and Caroline. These students brought in yummy treats for our Japan Day last week.


Scholastic books orders for the month of January and February will come home Monday. They will also be available to order online starting Monday. The due date will be next Monday 1/21. I encourage everyone to order online if ordering at all. It helps me out greatly!



Spelling
L. 17 is this week's spelling lesson. This is a review unit of lessons 10-16. The practice test will go home on Monday to review the format of the test. Review rules and words from lessons 10-16/ The test is Friday.

English
We will continue with our study of adjectives this week. Students will learn how to use "a, and, & the" and comparison of adjectives.

Reading
We are finishing up Egypt this week. Students will continue reading Tut's Mummy Lost and Found and writing summaries.

Science
This week we will study to moon. Students will learn about the four phases of the moon and why we always see the same side of the moon.



Social Studies
We will begin another map skills unit for the next few weeks. This week we will learn about map symbols and scales.




Math
We will finish up chapter 4 by taking a checkpoint on Tuesday. The chapter 4 test is on Wednesday. Students will be taking a x9 mad minute this week.

Week of January 7-11

Important Dates:
*Japan Day Wednesday 1/9
*Spelling test Friday 1/11

Classroom Chatter
Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a wonderful break.

FORGOTTEN LUNCHES: Starting immediately, 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.

Cursive writing: We are finishing our cursive writing workbooks in the next week or so. Once we are finished, students will be required to complete all work in cursive. We will continue with some extra cursive practice in the weeks that follow the completion of the workbook for maintenance.

Spelling
This week is lesson 16. These words are 1+1+1 words ending with -ing or
-ed. Students already learned in english that 1+1+1 words are words that have one vowel, one consonant after that vowel and one syllable. The test will be Friday. The list is in the spelling folder.

English
We finished our holiday stories the last week before break. Hopefully your child shared their story with you. We will start Unit 4 in english this week. Unit 4 teaches about adjectives and adverbs. This week students will learn what adjectives are.

Reading
We will finish our Eye on Ancient Egypt books this week. We will begin a new book, Tut's Mummy. This book concentrates on King Tut. We also will begin work in lesson 4 in our reading workbooks.

Science
We will continue with our space unit. This week we will learn what shuttle life is like and living in space. Students will also begin learning about the Moon.

Social Studies
We finished up chapter 2 that last week before break with a test. Before moving on to our next unit of study, we will learn and read about the city of Tokyo, Japan and compare this community to the communities we studied in chapter 2. We will have a Japan Day on Wednesday. Students are asked to bring in a pillow to sit on, wear a bath robe or kimono, and bring in any type of Japanese food for us to taste. Students will be participating in some Japanese activities such as making origami (the art of paper folding) and water coloring Mt. Fuji. We will be working on the floor that day, so students can bring in a bed pillow to sit on.

Math
We will continue with chapter 4. This week students will be reading and learning what about stem and leaf plots. We will do some problem solving by using different graphs to show data. We also will be working with probability, outcomes, and evaluating fairness using spinners. This week we will be taking the x7 mad minute. Next week we will be testing out of chapter 4.