Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Week of 10/11/11 - 10/14/11

We will have a very short week coming up... Columbus Day is Monday and Tuesday is a Teachers' Institute. Enjoy the beautiful weather we are expecting! We will also be starting Book Buddies on Thursday, pairing up with the students of Mrs. Olsen's 3rd grade class.


Coming up this week:


Spelling: Due to the short week, there will be no spelling lesson this week


English: We will continue Unit 5 on Capitalization and Punctuation, specifically studying proper nouns and adjectives this week.


Reading: This week, we will continue to focus on story structure and mapping using the historical fiction tale of Elena and other stories. We will also work with analogies and start the summarizing process (Get the gist?)



Social Studies: The 13 English Colonies will be explored this week.



Science: We have completed the reading of chapter 5. On Wednesday, we will review for the test, which will follow on Thursday.


Mrs. Klacza's Math Class: We continue our division unit this week as we learn how to divide with 2-digit divisors. We will then focus on practicing division with a tentative test date of Wednesday, 10/19. I will reevaluate this date as we move forward. Long division is a very difficult concept and I hope to make it as clear as I can before the test date.


Important Dates:
October 10 -- Columbus Day -- No School
October 11 -- Teacher Institute -- No School

October 27 -- School Improvement Day/Early Dismissal


Have a great weekend! Mrs. Klacza

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