*Last Magazine turn in Tuesday 9/30
*Movie Night Friday 10/3
Classroom Chatter
We had a great time celebrating Johnny Appleseed's birthday on Friday. Thank you to: Natalie O. for donating apple juice, Taylor for the bowls, and Teddy for the spoons!
Science
We will begin our next unit in science on Health. Students will be learning about ways to stay healthy and how to make healthy choices. We will begin with lesson one that teaches us about the food guide pyramid and making good food choices.
Social Studies
We will have a quiz on hemispheres on Tuesday. A study guide, papers, and map essentials book are in the social studies folder for your child to study.
Downers Grove will be our next unit. We will begin learning about the history of Downers Grove. This is not in our textbook. I will supply the materials to read and study for this unit. We will keep it in our social studies folder.
Please visit the blog of your child's Reading teacher to find out information for Reading, Language Arts, and Spelling in that classroom.
Spelling
Lesson 5's words are vowel + y words. The test is on Friday. The list is in the spelling folder. Here is the homework for this week:
Tuesday: p. 29-30
Wednesday: p. 31-32
Thursday: ABC order
Friday: Test
English
This week we will be doing an expository writing essay to learn how to write in paragraph form. Our papers will have an introduction, body, and conclusion. Each paragraph will be indented. Students should bring in 3 favorite things in a brown paper bag that represents them by Tuesday. Students will be using these items to help create ideas for their paper. Information about this will go home on Monday.
Reading
This week we will finish up with predictions. We will read a novel to continue our work on predicting. We also will be having a quiz, on Monday, over prefixes, suffixes, root words, compound words, words with same vowel sounds, and words with same beginning sounds. This word work is in a packet in the reading folders. A review packet for this word work came home last Thursday for homework. This packet is very similar to the format of Monday's quiz. We went over the answers to the packet on Friday.
Please visit the blog of your child's Math teacher to find out information for that Math class.
Math
This week we will begin multiplication mad minutes. We will begin with x2's. We will continue working in chapter 2. This week we will be adding greater numbers. We will take a checkpoint on Wednesday. Towards the end of the week, we will work on subtraction of 2 and 3 digit numbers and greater numbers.
