*Robert Crown field trip-Friday 10/31
*Halloween parade and parties Friday 10/31
Classroom Chatter
HALLOWEEN is on Friday. We will be going to Robert Crown in the morning. We will miss our lunch period, so we'll be eating lunch in our classrooms. Please send your child a lunch that day. Students should bring their costumes to school in a bag with their name labeled on it. Try to have them dress so that their costume can go over their clothes and little makeup. We will be changing in our classrooms. Boys and girls will be in different classrooms. They will not be allowed to go to the bathroom to change. Please save guns, swords, knives, and other weapons for trick-or-treating at home. They are not appropriate for school. Parents who are running the party can come by 1:15. Our school parade begins at 1:15. The party will begin at 1:30 and end at 2:15. Students will be sent home in their costumes.
Parents & Students... check out this fun Halloween website. You can carve your own pumpkin and watch it light up. Enjoy and Happy Halloween!
To carve your pumpkin,
click the link below.
Carve your pumpkin then press done. Watch it light up!
http://www.cubpack81.com/images/carve_pumpkin.swf
Science
We will move into new science textbooks for our next unit. We will be working out of this textbook for the remainder of the year. Our first unit is an introductory unit to science. We will be doing different experiments with bubbles. Students will learn about inquiry tools and the scientific method.
Social Studies
We will continue with our Downers Grove unit.
Please visit the blog of your child's Reading teacher to find out information for Reading, Language Arts, and Spelling in that classroom.
Spelling
This week we will have a list of Halloween words for our spelling list. We will be taking the test on THURSDAY this week. We will not be switching on Friday due to the Robert Crown field trip. The list will go home Monday with the homework assignments for this week. They are due on Thursday.
English
The test is scheduled for Tuesday on Nouns. A study guide went home last week. It is in the english folder.
Reading
We will continue with the monitor/clarify strategy. We will read a story called, Cliffhanger. Students will be working on the skill cause and effect. Don't forget the book report is due Thursday, 10/30. Your child may turn it in early if they would like.
Please visit the blog of your child's Math teacher to find out information for that Math class.
Math
This week we will begin chapter 2. In chapter 2, we will learn about multiplication. Students will have one more week off of mad minutes. Start studying x5's. We will take them next week. I want to get into this chapter more in depth and then continue with mad minutes. To help practice mad minutes, here are some helpful sites. We played these games last Friday at the computer lab.
http://www.oswego.org/ocsd-web/games/Mathmagician/cathymath.html
