Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Week of November 29, 2010


I hope all of you had a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with family and friends!

There is NO SCHOOL on Friday, December 3, 2010.



I am holding Parent/Teacher conferences on Monday and Tuesday of this week.


Here is the upcoming week in a nutshell:


MATH

Students will continue working with money this week. We are having a checkpoint quiz on money on Thursday, December 2. Students were given a multiplication fact test schedule. The first scheduled test on 2's is on December 10th. Students should be practicing these facts nightly.

READING

We will be focusing on author's point of view and purpose next week as we read The Keeping Quilt. If you have a quilt at home you can send it in with your child. If you would like to share your knowledge about quilting, please contact me via email. We would love to have someone come talk to the students about quilts. Thank you!

SPELLING

We will work on list 9: long i sound. A pretest will be given Monday. Homework will be sent home Monday as well. The final test and homework is on Thurs.

SCIENCE

This week we will be focusing on the solar system.

SOCIAL STUDIES
We will be starting chapter 12 this week on our local government.

Have a wonderful week!

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