Friday, December 10, 2010

Week of December 13, 2010

This is a busy week right before our holiday break! A couple of dates to remember:

On Monday, we will be attending an all school holiday concert at 9:30.

On Wednesday, we will be bowling from 9 to 11. Many students bring money to purchase food from the snack bar. This usually results in students not being very hungry when we return. I highly recommend packing your child with a lunch that day. This way, if a hot lunch is ordered, it is not wasted. Also, they will be able to eat their lunch in my room later in the day if desired.

On Friday, we will be going to the Tivoli to watch The Grinch.

Here is the upcoming week in a nutshell:

MATH
We have a x3 multiplication test on Thursday. Students will continue exploring graphs and data this week. Please continue practicing facts at home on a nightly basis.
ENGLISH
We will complete our narrative papers and have a DOL quiz this week (most likely Thursday) on quotes.
READING
We will continue to learn about evaluating text and visualizing as we read. We will continue to use the story Dogzilla as well as other novels and text as we apply these skills. We will also work on strategies from previous weeks.
SPELLING
We are on list 11: words with the vowel sounds in "clown" and "lawn". A pretest will be on Monday. Homework will be given Monday and due Friday. The final test will be on Friday.
SCIENCE
We will complete our planet books and then make our star gazers this week.
Have a wonderful week!

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