Important Dates . . .
Tuesday, November 23 -- Report Cards
-- Picture Retake Day
-- Unit 4 Social Studies Test
November 24, 25, 26 -- Thanksgiving Holiday -- No Schoool
IMPORTANT NOTES:
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 will be picture retake day. Any student that did not have their picture taken prior to this date may do so. They will be required to have a picture envelope with money to have a picture taken. Any student wishing to have a picture retaken will have to return the original picture packet for a retake.
The students of Project Challenge grades 3-5 are participating in a Lion's Club Holiday Drive. We are looking for donations such as new toys, new games, toiletries, and food for the needy families in the Darien area. If you wish to participate you will need to bring the donations in by December 13. Remember that some of these families live right here in Darien. So let's help these families have a happy holiday season. PLEASE DONATE!
*Paper Recycling Fundraiser Comes to Prairieview: We are happy to announce we can now raise money for our district by recycling paper! You can help us out, too! Please collect any paper you are going to throw away or recycle (office and school paper, newspaper, magazines and catalogs, and construction paper---no cardboard!) and send it in with your child to school or drop it off at the green and yellow Paper Retriever bin in the Lakeview parking lot (near the fence by the Prairieview playground). The bin is available for drop offs 24/7. The more paper we recycle, the more money we can make! Do something good for our schools AND the environment! Thank you!
Language Arts
We are wrapping up the Capitalization unit this week.
Reading
This week we will be reading about Thanksgiving and focusing on comprehension skills in small groups.
We will continue working on phonics, decoding, encoding, and comprehension throughout the week through direct instruction, Lexia, and hands on materials.
Please keep reading 20 minutes a night for the Independent Reading Program! You may just note the time read in increments of 20 minutes in the pages read section. Please sign on the date the reading was accomplished. This red folder should be turned in every Friday to make sure they are staying on track. The Independent Reading Folder should be turned in for a grade at the end of the month. Keep reading!
Spelling
No spelling list to study this week. We will be working on spelling strategies using a Thanksgiving theme.
Social Studies
We will wrap up Unit 4 this week, with a test on Tuesday, November 23rd. We have discussed and written various definitions on notecards in this unit thus far. There is a lot of information to know. Please review lessons over the weekend when the book will be sent home. The definitions/vocabulary cards will be found in their social studies folder in their binder. This will help when the test arrives next week.
No news event or report this week.
Math
We are continuing on with subtraction!
Daily Homework
Reading - 20 minutes and complete Independent Reading Folder Log
- weekly turn in on Friday
Social Studies - current event newsclip due Monday
- study for Unit 4 test - Tuesday, November 23rd
*Please check your child's homework and sign assignment notebook when complete.
**If your child is having difficulties with their homework please send a note and I will help them during free time.
