Thursday, January 29, 2009

Week of February 2-6

Important Dates:
*Groundhog Day Monday 2/2
*Mrs. Csorba's 30th Birthday Thursday 2/5
*Multicultural Presentation-Guest musician MER Thursday 2/5
*100th Day of School Friday 2/6
*Movie Night Friday 2/6
*6 Flags 6 Hours of Reading due 2/20

Classroom Chatter
On Thursday Prairieview will be having a music/multicultural assembly with guest musician Mer. Mer is a friend of Mrs. Csorba and a local music artist. We look forward to his presentation and performance!

Science
We will begin chapter 5 this week. Chapter 5 teaches us about how living things interact with each other, food webs, and food chains.


Social Studies
We will be taking the Ch. 9 test on Tuesday. Our next unit of study will be Ancient Egypt!



Please visit the blog of your child's Reading teacher to find out information for Reading, Language Arts, and Spelling in that classroom.


Spelling
L. 15 words end with -ing. The pretest will be on Monday. This week's homework pages will be workbook pages 80-83. They are due on Thursday. The ABC order sheet will go home on Thursday. The test is Friday.

English
This week we will learn about adverbs. We also will be doing more expository writing. Last week we learned about expository writing (informs, describes, explains) and how to write good hooks (attention getters) for our introduction paragraph.



Reading
We will finish up Stone Fox this week with a vocabulary quiz. Inference will be our next and final reading strategy to learn. We will be reading the story Mulan. We will not be having a vocabulary quiz this week.

Please visit the blog of your child's Math teacher to find out information for that Math class.

Math
We will continue with geometry. This week we will learn about perimeter, area, and space figures. Students will be doing some problem solving with written explanation. We will begin division mad minutes beginning with 2's.





Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Week of January 26-30

Important Dates:
*6 Flags 6 Hours of Reading due 2/20
*Movie Night Friday 2/6


Classroom Chatter
Book orders were placed last week. They will come home with your child when they arrive. Thank you for your order.

Science
We will be taking a test on Wednesday on Ecosystems.

Social Studies
We will be finishing up chapter 9, Making Choices, this week. The chapter 9 test is scheduled for Tuesday, 2/3. A study guide will come home this week.


Please visit the blog of your child's Reading teacher to find out information for Reading, Language Arts, and Spelling in that classroom.

Spelling

L. 14 words are irregular past tense verbs. There will be a pretest on Monday and a test on Friday. The homework for this week are workbook pages 75-78. They are due on Thursday. Thursday's homework will be an ABC order sheet.

English

I decided to begin Adjectives last week. We will continue with adjectives as well as some expository writing.

Reading

We will finish up Stone Fox this week by finishing chapters 8-10. There will be a vocabulary quiz on Wednesday for chapter's 5-7 words and a quiz next Monday on 8-10's words.


Please visit the blog of your child's Math teacher to find out information for that Math class.

Math

We will continue with our geometry unit. Students will learn about congruent and similar shapes, and slides, flips, and turns of shapes. We will be taking a checkpoint on Friday on p. 450-451.


This week we will be taking a mad minute on mix multiplication facts from x0-x12.


Friday, January 16, 2009

Week of January 19-23

Important Dates:
*No school Monday 1/19 Martin Luther King Jr. Day

*Book orders due Tuesday 1/20
*Tuesday 1/20 dress in Red, White, and Blue for Inauguration Day
*Ms. Griffin starts her student teaching on Tuesday 1/20!!!



Classroom Chatter

Thank you to Maggie and Sophia who brought in treats for IOWA testing last week.

Book orders are due on Tuesday. They will come home as soon as they arrive. Thank you for your order!



Science
We fell behind in science due to IOWA testing. We will finish up chapter 4 with lesson 4 this week. The test is now scheduled for next week, Wednesday, 1/28.


Social Studies
We will continue in chapter 9 on Making Choices. This week we will cover lesson 2: Choosing Wisely. Students will learn about economic choice and opportunity cost.



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 is L. 13. The words are past tense of final y words. There will not be a pretest this week. The test will be Friday. This week's homework will be assigned on Tuesday and due Thursday. They are workbook pages 70-73. An ABC order sheet will come home Thursday night.

English
We will begin our next unit on adjectives. This week we will learn about adjectives that tell how many and what kind.



Reading
We will be spending the next few weeks reading the novel, Stone Fox. There will be a vocabulary quiz on the words from chapters 1-4 on Friday. The list is in the reading folder in the reading packet named Stone Fox.



Please visit the blog of your child's Math teacher to find out information for that Math class.


Math
We will begin ch. 11 on geometry. This week we will cover polygons, lines, line segments, parallel and perpendicular lines, circumference, radius, and diameter.




Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Week of January 12-16

Important Dates:
*IOWA testing 1/12-1/15
*Scholastic Book orders Tuesday 1/20
*No School Monday 1/19



Classroom Chatter

I'm very excited to announce that on January 20, our class will be getting a student teacher. Miss Nikki Griffin will be working and learning with our classroom from January through May. We will meet Nikki on Tuesday, when she comes in for a visit. We look forward to having her work with us for the remainder of the year!

Book orders went home on Friday. They are due by Tuesday 1/20. Remember you can purchase them online or send in the paper order form with a check. Thanks in advance for your order.




Don't forget Monday is Martin Luther King Jr. Day so no school. Enjoy the long weekend.

Due to the snow day before break, we missed our trip to the Tivoli for a movie. The school is still planning on going to the Tivoli to watch a movie once the snow melts and the weather warms up. Movie and date will be announced at a later date.

Science

We will be finishing up chapter 4 on ecosystems. The test will be the following week. I tentatively have it planned for Wednesday 1/21. A study guide will come home this week.


Social Studies

We will begin chapter 9 Making Choices this week. Lesson one teaches us about spending, saving, and a budget.

Please visit the blog of your child's Reading teacher to find out information for Reading, Language Arts, and Spelling in that classroom.

Spelling
No spelling this week due to IOWA testing.

English
We will take a Friendly Letter quiz on Thursday, 1/15. Students need to know the 5 parts of a friendly letter. Also, they will put a friendly letter in order that is mixed up. Students will also have to proofread a friendly letter. All papers in the english folder will help them prepare for this quiz.

Reading
We will continue with summarize. Most of our reading time will be used for IOWA testing this week.

Please visit the blog of your child's Math teacher to find out information for that Math class.

Math

This week we will be taking IOWA tests in math. The Chapter 4 test is scheduled for Friday 1/16. We will be taking x12's this week.