*Veterans' Day No school Tuesday 11/11
*Book orders due Thursday 11/13
*Roller Skating Party Tuesday 11/18
*New Kids Assembly 11/19
*End of 1st Trimester 11/21
*Thanksgiving Break 11/26-11/28
Classroom Chatter
Thank you to the many who have donated books to our Book Angels book drive. The book drive ends on Friday 11/14.
Book orders for the month of November and December went home on Friday. Don't forget you can view and order them online as well. They will be due by Thursday. Books make great presents or stocking stuffers! If there are any books you order as gifts and want me to set them aside for you to pick up when your child is not around...just send me an email. I'd be happy to do so!
The Social Studies Committee is looking for two parents who have an educational or history background to be involved in the adoption of new Social Studies textbooks. You would have to meet with the committee and provide input for choosing our next textbooks for the coming years. The committee will be meeting once every month for the next 2 years. Please email Ms. Pellin if you would be interested in joining the committee. Thank you. mpellin@ccsd66.org
Science
Information went home last week with your child's user name and password to view the textbook online. Students were shown this in class last week as well. We will finish up the first lesson in the introductory unit this week by taking some notes and doing an open book review. We will complete this as a class. I will show the students how to use their notes and book to help them answer the questions.
Social Studies
We will be finishing up our Downers Grove unit in the next two weeks. I am planning on giving a combined test on Present Day Downers Grove and Ch.12 (lessons 1 & 2 only) on Friday 11/21. Students will get a study guide at the end of this week to help them start studying.
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 begin lesson 10. There will be no pretest due to no school on Tuesday. Lesson 10's words are spelled with words that end in double consonants. The list will come home on Monday. I will go over workbook pages 55, 56, & 58 (skip 57) on Monday. They will be due on Thursday. Students will have an ABC order on Thursday for homework. The test is on Friday.
English
We will learn about verbs in the past tense this week. Just a heads up, we will be having an open book graded review on Thursday covering the first 5 lessons on verbs. Students are welcome to bring their textbook home to review. After this, we will be done with verbs until after Thanksgiving break.
Reading
Parent/Teacher conferences for December are being held with the Language Arts teacher this year. Most of you signed up for a conference at Curriculum Night. On Monday, I will be sending home a confirmation sheet. Please look over the date and time and confirm your conference with me by filling out the bottom portion and returning it with your child as soon as possible.
We will be taking a vocabulary quiz on Monday on Cliffhanger's words. We will begin our next strategy self question. A good reader always asks themselves questions as they read and can find answers as they read. We will read The Keeping Quilt. We will also learn about metaphors/similes, alliteration, personification, and onomatopoeia.
Check out www.puffinpalooza.com to view our Mrs. Csorba's students' drawings online!
Please visit the blog of your child's Math teacher to find out information for that Math class.
Math
This week we will cover x5, x7, x8, x9, and x10. We will spend a day on problem solving. Students will be taking the first checkpoint in chapter 3. Feel free to look over the checkpoint in the textbook this week. The checkpoint can be found on p. 100-101 in the textbook. We will be taking mad minutes x6's this week.
“We could learn a lot from crayons; some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, while others bright, some have weird names, but they all have learned to live together in the same box.” (Quote borrowed from Ms. Steka's blog)
