Friday, January 6, 2012

Week of January 9-13

Important Dates
*Spelling pretest Monday 1/9
*MAPS test for Reading 1/10
*Practice Spelling Bee Tuesday 1/10
*Classroom Spelling Bee Wednesday 1/11
*Spelling test Friday 1/13

Classroom Chatter:

The students received a list of words to look over and study for the upcoming spelling bee. We will have our classroom spelling bee Wednesday, 1/11. The practice bee will be on Tuesday, 1/10. The top 2 spellers in our classroom will advance to the grade level bee. Then the grade level bee will be held 1/19. The district bee will be 1/24.


Market Day: If you are interested in volunteering for Market Day, please arrive at 8:00 am on Sat. 1/7 at Lakeview. Thank you for your help!

Reading: We will continue with fact and opinion and compare and contrast. We also will be working on extended responses to our reading.

Spelling: List 12 will be this week. The pretest will be Monday. The homework and test will be due Friday.

English: We will continue with our study of verbs. We also will begin writing our autobiographies.

Science: We will continue our study of weather.

Social Studies: We will continue with chapter 3 on culture. Look for information to come home this week about a culture day project to do at home.

Mrs. Csorba's math:
We will take a mix mad minute this week. Please review all facts from x0-x12. We will continue with our measurement unit.