Monday, April 21, 2008

Week of April 21-25

Important Dates:
*Earth Day Tuesday 4/22
*Early Dismissal Thursday 4/24
*Spelling Test Friday 4/25
*Field Museum Monday 4/28

Classroom Chatter
Friday, 4/18/08, we had the pleasure of Mr. Tom Tiede's band, PLUNKET, perform for our school. It was a great time! Here are some pictures. Also, a PLUNKET CD is available to purchase for $10. Order forms went home Friday.















Thank you to everyone who came last week to Open House. It was good see you all! The students enjoyed sharing our classroom with you!


Spelling
L. 32 words are possessive forms of nouns. The test will be on Friday. The list will be in the Spelling folder on Monday.


English
We will continue with our pronoun unit. This week we will do some writing with pronouns and learn how to use I and me correctly in a sentence.


Reading
This week we will begin a new unit. Students will be learning and reading biographies.


Science
We will finish our unit up by learning about reptiles, animal behaviors, and instincts.

Social Studies
We will continue with our Chicago unit. We will focus on Chicago in the early days and about how Chicago became an industrialized city.


Math
We will finish up Ch. 7 on time and measurement with a test on Friday. Extra practice pages can be found on pages 288-293. We will begin division 8's this week.