*Adopted family gifts due Wednesday 12/10
Classroom Chatter:
Six Flags Reading Club info came home on Thursday. This is optional. If your child wants to participate, please keep track of 6 hours of reading. When completed, turn the form into me. Your child will receive a free ticket to Six Flags Great America. This is due by 2/20/09.
Thank you to Taylor, Teddy, Tyler Sp. and Jack. These students have brought in gifts for our Holiday service project. Here's what we have so far:
Mom-
picture frame
mug with shower gel and lotion
***17 year old girl (cancer patient)
watch
16 year old female
nothing yet for her...
15 year old female
electronic solitaire game
10 year old girl
jewelry
craft
art set and paper
3 year old girl
books
stuffed animal bear
Family Gift-
Yahtzee game
gift cards to: Dunkin Donuts, Mc Donalds, and Pizza Hut
Science
We had a lot of fun last week conducting our science experiment on "bubble colors" in science. Take a look a these scientists:
The test for the introductory unit, "Getting Ready for Science" will be on Tuesday. A study guide went home last week. We are finished with science until "next year!"
Social Studies
We will be spending the next two weeks finishing up chapter 3 in social studies. We will not finish until the day before we break for the holidays. I have decided that we will NOT take a chapter 3 test. I will just have the grades from the 4 in-class lesson reviews for the chapter 3 grades.
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's words will be a holiday list of words. Below is the spelling list. We will have a pretest on Monday. If your child receives a 100% on Monday's pretest, they don't have to take the test on Friday. We will have a homework packet of activities to complete this week. The test is Friday.
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HOLIDAY LIST: A paper copy will come home Monday.
Santa
stocking
Christmas
reindeer
elves
ice skate
presents
angels
giving
candy canes
snowflakes
garland
icicles
lights
ornaments
family
sleigh
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English
We will finish up verbs. The test is now scheduled for Tuesday, 12/16.
Reading
This week we will begin a new reading strategy, connections. When we read, we will be making 3 types of connections: text to text, text to self, and text to the world connections. We will be reading the Mysterious Giant of Barletta. We will have a short quiz on vocab from this story on Friday.
Please visit the blog of your child's Math teacher to find out information for that Math class.
Math
We will begin chapter 4. Chapter 4 teaches us about data and probability. This week we will learn about bar graphs, pictographs, line graphs, and ordered pairs. We will be taking a mad minute this week on x9's.
