Important Dates

*Vocab quiz Monday 2/1

* No school Tuesday 2/2

Teachers Institute Day

*District 66 Spelling Bee Thursday 2/4

Classroom Chatter

Mrs Csorba and her adorable son are doing GREAT!

The class is so excited for her and we can't wait for the day

they come for a visit.

It has been a great week getting to know all of the students.

They are a wonderful group! If you need to contact me ,

my email is Mrs. McHale mmchale@ccsd66.org

Spelling

L. 19 is the unit we are working on next week. We will not have a pretest on Monday because of the shortened school week. We will be working on -or words. Test is on Friday.

English

We are continuing Expository Writing (Expository Writing defines,

describes, explains and gives information). This week we will be focused on finishing our rough draft .

Reading

Vocabulary Quiz on Chapters 5-7 in Stone Fox is on Monday.

This week we will be finishing the book with chapters 8-10.

Vocabulary list for these chapters will come home Monday.

We will also be watching the movie Stone Fox.

Science

We are learning how the earth and moon interact and we will be finding out "What is our Solar system". Cosmic Capers came on Wednesday ..we learned a lot and fun was had by all!

Social Studies

We are working on chapter 9 and learning skills on budgeting and managing our money.

Math

We will continue our unit on Geometry. We learned about Radius, diameter and circumference along with congruent and symmetry. This week we will learn about shapes in motion and problem solving using logical reasoning.