Important Dates . . .
October 21 -- Early Dismissal @ 11 a.m.
October 22 -- Chapter 1 Math Test
October 29 – Independent Reading Program folders due
October 30 -- Teacher Institute -- No School
3rd Grade Notes:
Third grade will be taking a field trip to Downers Grove as part of our Social Studies unit about our city. The permission slip for the Downers Grove field trip was sent home recently. The signed permission slip is due on Friday, October 23rd. You may also send $7.50 along with the signed permission slip to cover the cost of a Giordano's (Downers Grove) pizza lunch. If you do not wish to have your child participate, please send a cold lunch on the day of the field trip (no money is necessary). Everyone will eat at Giordano's restaurant (cold or pizza). If you would like, though it is not necessary, you can also send $5-$8 in cash on the day of the field trip. Your student can spend this money at any of the downtown Downers Grove shops. Each student will be responsible for their own money.
4th Grade Notes:
A permission slip went home last week regarding “all” field trips that will be taken this year. Please sign the form (on each line) and return the form with one check by October 27th.
Language Arts
We are continuing to build our skills from recognizing phrases and sentences to identifying attributes of sentences. They should be able to identify that a sentence has two parts: a who or what part that tells who or what the sentence is about and a does what part that tells what the who or what does.
Reading
We are working on story elements and decoding skills. The story element being focused on is character. Students need to work on recall of information and details relating to characters.
Please keep reading 20 minutes a night for the Independent Reading Program! Due to some confusion, you may just note the time read in increments of 20 minutes in the pages read section. This orange folder should be turned in every Monday to make sure they are staying on track. The final turn in day for the month will be Wednesday, October 29th. Keep reading!
Spelling
Practice pages will be assigned for the upcoming week's list on Friday to give additional study time. Over the weekend would be a good time to discuss the meaning of the words. Although we work on meaning typically on Fridays and Mondays, help from home is greatly encouraged! They will be receiving them daily as an assignment. A test over the lesson will be given every Friday. Please try to help your child study if you see they are not performing as well as you'd expect on the weekly test. One strategy you can use to help is: Choo-Choo Words - Write the entire list end-to-end as one long word, using different colors of crayon or ink for different words.
Science
The children will begin with an introductory unit of study for the science text. This will highlight information that students will use throughout the year. We will continue with Lesson 1 this week, “What are Tools for Inquiry?” We have discussed the definition of the root word of inquiry: inquire (to ask a question). Including this word in conversation at home would be helpful to better understand the meaning.
Math (Mrs. K's Math class only)
Chapter 1 test will be this Friday. They will continue focusing on basic addition, but now adding three numbers for our last lesson. The children are using various techniques to achieve the sum; whether it be a numberline, touchpoints, manipulatives, make a ten, addition table or memory.
Daily Homework
Reading - 20 minutes and complete Independent Reading Folder Log
- practice reading poems given to work on fluency
Spelling - Practice Page nightly & study words
Math – Chapter 1 Test Friday
- practice counting, one to one correspondence, and addition facts with sums up to 20
