Week of October 31-November 4

Important Dates:

*Spelling pretest Monday 10/31

*Happy Halloween Monday 10/31

*Spelling test Friday 11/4

Classroom Chatter

Halloween Monday will be business as usual at school...but we hope to do some fun activities in honor of the day!

We had a great time at our Halloween party on Friday!!!! Thanks to all the moms who planned a SPOOKTACULAR party! It was ghoulish!!!

Check out this fun online pumpkin carving website. Make a jack-o-lantern without any mess! ;)

http://www.onlinepumpkincarving.com/

Spelling

L. 8 words are spelled with a three-letter cluster and unexpected consonant patterns. The pretest will be Monday. The homework will come home on Monday and is due on Friday.

Reading

We will continue with cause and effect this week while we read the story, Cliffhanger. There will be a vocabulary quiz on Thursday. The list will be in the reading folder after Monday.

English

We will begin Unit 2, Nouns.

Science

We will continue with matter. This week we will study the 3 states of matter.

Social Studies

We will continue with our Downers Grove unit.

Mrs. Csorba's math class. We will take a mad minute on 4's this week. We will continue in chapter 3 this week. However, Monday, we will do some fun pumpkin math for Halloween! :)

Thursday we will take a CYP on lessons 1-5.

Week of October 24-28

Important Dates:

*Spelling pretest Monday 10/24

*Early dismissal Thursday 10/27

*Halloween parade and party Friday 10/28

*Spelling test Friday 10/28

Classroom Chatter

Don't forget early dismissal Thursday at 11am.

Friday is our Halloween parade and party. The parade will begin at 1:00. Students may bring their costumes to school. We will change in the classroom. We will have the girls in one room and the boys in another room. No one is allowed to go to the bathroom to change.

Spelling

This week's words are Halloween words. We will pretest Monday. The homework is due Friday. The test is on Friday.

English

We will work on descriptive writing by describing our houses! We will share them this week too!

Reading

We will work on the cause and effect strategy. We will practice this strategy when we read the story, Cliffhanger.

Science

We will continue with chapter 11 and learning about matter.

Social Studies

We will continue our study of the history of Downers Grove.

Mrs. Csorba's Math Class

We will take a mad minute in with threes. We will begin chapter 3, addition and subtraction. This week we will focus our studies on front-end estimation and addition of larger numbers and regrouping.

Week of October 17-21

Important Dates:

*Spelling pretest Monday 10/17

*Book Fair Thursday 10/20

*Spelling Test Friday 10/21

Classroom Chatter

Don't forget Thursday evening is our Book Fair in the gym! Come and check it out if you can!!!

Spelling

L. 7's words are spelled with long O. There will be a pretest Monday. The homework will be due Friday. The test will be on Friday.

Reading

We will finish up inference this week. We will be doing some inferencing activities using chapter books and short stories. We also will write an extended response from Mulan.

English

We will spend this week talking and practicing how add description to our writing. For example, we will talk about how we can use our 5 senses when we write to describe things. We will learn about similies and metaphores to help our descriptions too.

Science

We will begin our next unit, States of Matter.

Social Studies

We will begin our next unit, Downers Grove.

Mrs. Csorba's Math Class

We will take a mad minute on "fives" this week. Really, there were only 4 new facts to learn. :)

The mad minute will also have doubles and squares as well. We will finish up chapter two this week. We will take a CYP on the lessons 6-8 on Wednesday, review for the test on Thursday, and Chapter 2's test will be Friday.

Week of October 10-14

Important Dates:

No school Monday or Tuesday!

*Science test Thursday 10/13

*Vocab quiz Thursday 10/13

*Book orders due Friday 10/14

Classroom Chatter

Don't forget there is no school Monday (Columbus day) or on Tuesday (Teacher Institute). Have a great, long weekend!

Book orders went home today (Friday 10/7). They are due on Friday 10/14. You can order online or send in your order with a check. Thanks!

Spelling

No spelling this week due to the shortened week.

English

We will finish up with our papers we are writing with our Me Bags. We will begin another writing unit at the end of the week. We will spend a week doing descriptive writing.

Reading

Our continued focus will be on inferring this week as we practice using many reading strategies to improve our reading. The inferences we make will be about text, characters and unfamiliar words. There will be a vocabulary quiz (from the story Ballad of Mulan) on Thursday.

This week we learned about "Good Fit" books. Ask your child about it!

Science

We will take a test on Ecosystems on Thursday, 10/13.

Social Studies

We will begin our next unit of study, Downers Grove, next week!

Mrs. Csorba's math class:

We will take a mad minute on two's and squares on Wednesday. We also will continue with chapter 2. This week we will learn some more mental math strategies, learn how to estimate sums and differences, and add and subtract money. A look ahead to next week, the week of 17th-21st, we will probably take the next CYP on Wednesday 10/19 and the ch. 2 test Friday 10/21.