Friday, December 7, 2012

Week of December 10

Guinness had his first day of school on Tuesday.
The District PTO is hosting a Barnes and Noble fundraising book fair event on Tuesday, December 11th from 6:00 to 8:00 pm at the Bolingbrook Promenade. This is no ordinary book fair! The event will include complimentary hot chocolate and cupcakes with a decorating table for the students. There will be a bookmark creation station complete with volunteers monitoring children so that parents can shop for holiday items and visit the complimentary gift wrapping station.  I hope to see you there!

Our class will go on a bowling field trip on Monday, December 17th. You can send your child with money if they would like to buy a snack at the bowling alley. Please send your child with a sack lunch on this day.

On Friday, December 21st, the entire school will be going to the Tivoli to watch the movie Polar Express .  A permission slip was sent home.  Please send this permission slip back by Friday, December 14th.  

Winter Break is through December 22 - January 6.

Here is our upcoming week in a nutshell:


MATH
Our class will have a x6,7,8 test on Friday, 12/14.  There is a CYP on chapter 5, lessons 1-6 on Tuesday, 12/11.

READING
We will focus on character, setting, and plot.  We will also work on the reading strategy of visualizing. We will use the story Dogzilla as well as other novels and text as we apply these skills. Students will receive vocabulary words on Monday, December 10th.  There will be a vocabulary test and comprehension check on Thursday, December 13th.   At the end of the week students will complete an activity "Santa Cause" which will allow students to come up with funny situations Santa gets into showing cause and effect. 

ENGLISH
 We will continue the study of verbs in unit 3.

Spelling: 
Monday:  Pretest on lesson 12
Homework - Cursive worksheet
Tuesday:  Homework - Non challenge ABC order in Spelling Journal
Challenge - Activity 1 in Spelling Journal
Wednesday: Homework - Non challenge - Write each word in a sentence in Spelling Journal
Challenge - Activity 2 in Spelling Journal
Friday:  Post test on lesson 12

SCIENCE
We are continuing to explore matter.

SOCIAL STUDIES
We are going to begin exploring communities (Chapter 12).

Have a wonderful weekend!

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