Important Dates . . .
February 21 -- President's Day -- No School
February 21 -- PTO Dine-Out Fundraiser -- Noodles & Company (click for details)
February 22 -- IAA testing begins in Mrs. K's room
February 24 -- Spring Pictures
February 25 -- End of Trimester
March 1 -- Report Cards
March 2 -- Parent Teacher Conferences
IMPORTANT NOTE:
IAA (Illinois Alternate Assessment) Testing begins this week and will continue for a few weeks in Mrs. Krasnodebski's room. Due to the fact that this is an individual assessment we need more time than ISAT testing takes; therefore, it is beginning this week (Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday). Please make sure your child gets plenty of rest and has a healthy breakfast each morning. We will be testing in the morning during our reading class. Students will be continuing with reading strategies in stations as others will be indivually tested. Your child may want to bring an extra snack and/or drink to help keep them focused for the test each day.
Language Arts
We will be building on the writing process this week. Students will be given topics and we will be working on brainstorming details.
Reading
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! This month students should be reading daily or a minimum of 20 minutes for 20 days. 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 this Monday. Keep reading!
This past month reading incentives were doubled! Not only could your child read 20 minutes to go to the reading party, but they could read to earn a ticket to go to Six Flags Great America! All you need to do is fill out the yellow form sent home with the information from their red reading folder, then sign. Please turn in the Six Flags Great America Sheets this Tuesday. I will be filling out the official teacher forms Tuesday after school.
Spelling
The spelling words this week will cover two different yet similar sounding word families: - an & -ain. They will be receiving a spelling practice page daily as an assignment. A test over this week's lesson will be given Friday. Please try to help your child study daily. One strategy you can use to help with spelling words this week is: Picture words – Draw a picture and write your words in the picture.
Social Studies
We will continue Unit 5, Our Country Long Ago. Some concepts and vocabulary terms we will discuss are: 13 colonies, colonists, early America, etc. Students received another news event report on Friday and this will be due Tuesday.
Math
This Wednesday we should be wrapping up Chapter 5, Addition Strategies up to 12. This chapter will be focusing on specific strategies behind adding numbers and incorporting more mental math than in the past few chapters.
Daily Homework
Reading - 20 minutes and fill in Independent Reading Folder Log
- weekly turn in on Friday
- practice reading poems given to work on fluency
Spelling - Practice Page nightly to be turned in & study words for test
