Important Dates:
*Downers Grove Field Trip Tuesday 11/10
*No school Wednesday for Veterans' Day 11/11
*Spelling Test Friday 11/13
*Vocab quiz Friday 11/13
Classroom Chatter
We had a great time at our first Marble Party on Friday! Great job earing those marbles with good classroom behavior!
Don't forget we have our Downers Grove field trip on Tuesday from 9-2. Parents, if you are not a chaperone, but would still like to meet us for lunch, please do! We should be at Girodano's by 11:45 for lunch. Hope to see you there. Don't forget your child may bring $5-$8 to spend at the local shops after we eat lunch! We look forward to a fun and rewarding day. Hopefully, we'll have good weather too.
As we reach the Thanksgiving break, many units are coming to an end. That means tests! I am planning on testing out of science and english before the Thanksgiving break. We will hold off on the Downers Grove test until after the Thanksgiving break.
Spelling
L. 11 words are spelled with double consonants in the middle. There won't be a pretest due to the shortened week. The test will be Friday.
English
We will continue with the Verb unit. I plan on finishing this unit and having the verb test the Tuesday 11/24 before Thanksgiving break.
Reading
We will be reading the story The Keeping Quilt. We will be talking about author's viewpoint. Students will have a vocab quiz on Friday. The list is in their reading folders.
Science
We will finish up chapter 4 and learn how ecosystems can change. The chapter 4 test is scheduled for Wednesday 11/18.
Social Studies
We will start finishing up our Downers Grove unit by learning about local governments in our social studies textbook. We will be looking at Chapter 12- Your Local Government: Lesson 1 this week. Lesson 1 teaches up about how local governments provide services to communities.
Math
We will finish up chapter 4 with division these next 2 weeks. We will be taking the chapter 4 test on multiplication and division on Friday 11/20. Students WILL be allowed to use their multiplication box to help them, since we are still in the process of mastering our math facts. We won't test on x4's until the week of 11/16.
