Thursday, January 19, 2012

Week of January 23-27

Important Dates:
*Spelling pretest Monday 1/23
*District Spelling Bee 1/24
*Happy 2nd Birthday to Jack Csorba :) 1/24
*Early Dismissal 1/25
*Science test 1/26
*Spelling test Friday 1/27

Classroom Chatter:
Don't forget to turn in your Read to Succeed sheets for your free 6 Flags ticket. Due date 2/1.

Nice job to the students for doing such an amazing job on their reading and math MAPS tests. We celebrated Friday afternoon playing board games and enjoying a popcorn treat! ;)


Spelling:
We will take a pretest on L. 14 on Monday and the test and homework will be on Friday.

Reading
We didn't start our novel studies yet. We spent a lot of time talking about questioning and doing extended responses last week. This week we will dive into our new novel and work on making connections. We also just finished a WONDERFUL book, The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. It was my first time reading it and the kids and I LOVED IT! I recommend it to anyone!!! Ask your child about it. It is my new favorite book. :) We will start a new read aloud by the same author, Kate DiCamillo this week: The Tale of Desperaux.


English
We will continue with verbs and work on the verbs in the past tense.

Social Studies
How are the culture day projects coming along? Hopefully well! Looking forward to our culture day on 1/30. In the meantime, we will wrap up chapter 3 with learning how an immigrant becomes a citizen.

Science
We will finish up learning about weather. This will complete chapter 9. A study guide went home Friday in the science folder. The test will be Thursday 1/26.

Math for Mrs. Csorba's class
We will take a mad minute in division 3. We will continue to work on learning about the metric system. We will also work on learning about temperature and time.