Report cards will be going home on Tuesday; however, most of you should already know your child's grades, so no surprises!! I look forward to meeting with you all during conference week. Have a safe, happy, family-filled Thanksgiving holiday.
Some important Prairieview information: 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!
Coming up this week (Thanksgiving) and next week:
Mrs. Klacza's Reading/Spelling Class:
We will continue to review summarizing, drawing conclusions, inferencing, identifying author generalizations, visualizing, and word work with vocabulary words using our realistic fiction novels until December 2nd. Next week, we will review main ideas and details using our skills workbook. Our work with extended response will continue as well. A book project will be assigned on Monday for The Kid in the Red Jacket. Students will have time to work in class on Monday.
Spelling: No spelling assignments for Thanksgiving week.
Then... Lesson 12: Pretest on Monday. Homework due onThursday; Test Thursday.
English: On Tuesday, we will be taking the second part of the verbs test, which covers lessons 9 – 15. We will then take a bit of an English break :) Our work will resume on 12/6.
Social
Studies: Chapter 7 begins this week, specifically Lesson 1, "The Spanish Move North."
Science: We continue Chapter 6. The students will learn a little more about population and competition with a project using the book The Great Fuzz Frenzy. This will not be introduced until 11/29. Much of this project will be done in class.
Mrs. Klacza's Math Class:
After some extended response practice leads us to Thanksgiving, we will begin studying mean, median, mode, and range. We will use some of Chapter 9 and also some creative mimios and worksheets to learn this valuable statistical skill.
Important Dates:
11/23 – Report cards & Picture retakes
11/24, 25, 26 – Thanksgiving holiday
11/29, 11/30, & 12/1 – Parent/Teacher Conferences
12/3 – Day off (conferences)
Have a wonderful holiday! Mrs. Klacza
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