*Spelling test Friday 1/8
Classroom Chatter
Happy New Year! I hope 2010 brings you all happiness and good health! 3 weeks until my due date.... 1/23/10. I plan on working up to and maybe even past my due date unless baby comes sooner! My leave officially starts February 1st.
Hot Lunch: Please be advised that as of January 4, 2010 there will be a price increase in the student hot lunch program. The price of hot lunch will be $2.50 per meal.
Roller Skating: The children will be rollerskating in gym class in January. Mrs. Stainman is looking for parent volunteers to help tie up some laces throughout the day. If you would like to volunteer for this, please contact Mrs. Stainman at tstainman@ccsd66.org.
Spelling
L.14's words are irregular past tense. There will be a pretest Monday. The test will be Friday.
English
We will resume our adjective/adverb unit. We will learn about adverbs this week. We also will learn how to write a friendly letter. Expository writing begins this week as well.
Reading
We will begin a new story, Lost and Found. We will work on the reading skill sequence of events. There will be a vocab quiz Thursday. The list will go home on Monday. It will be in the reading folder. Information about the next book report will come home this week too.
Social Studies
We will continue with chapter 3 lesson 3 this week. Information about Culture Day will come home this week too. This project will be in lieu of a chapter test.
Science
We will begin our next unit of study the following week.
Math
We will continue with chapter 4 this week. We will learn about stem and leaf plots, probability, outcomes, and problem solving with graphs. We also will continue working on our graph projects in class that we started before break. This week's mad minute will be x9's. Next week we have IOWA testing during math. The chapter 4 test is scheduled for Friday, 1/15.
