Friday, October 21, 2011

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.