Friday, October 21, 2011

Week of 10/24/11 - 10/28/11

We will have our Halloween party and parade on Friday, October 28th! Please make sure your child brings an "easy to put on" costume for this day. They will change into their costumes after lunch. There will be NO ACCESS to the bathroom for costume or make-up "put on." There will be "girls" and "boys" classrooms assigned for changing of costumes.Costume parade will begin at 1:00; party at 1:30.

Don't forget our early dismissal day on Thursday; PV will get out at 11:00

Coming up this week:

Spelling: Lesson 8: Pretest Monday/Practice homework due Tuesday. Workbook/Challenge work due Thursday. Test Friday.


English: We will continue Unit 5 on Capitalization and Punctuation, specifically studying quotations and abbreviations this week.


Reading: We will be applying the reading skills that we have learned this year to a novel. The students will be divided into two groups. Some students will be practicing reading skills using a book called, The Kid in the Red Jacket and some students will be using a novel called, Crash!


Social Studies: Chapter 6 “Life in the English Colonies” will start on Wednesday. We will specifically study how the early colonists worked and traded. There will be a classroom trade fair on November 7. Information about the fair will be coming home later this week.


Science: We will be dissecting our owl pellets early in the week. The students love this project; bones will be coming home!!


Mrs. Klacza's Math Class: We will start chapter 5 on decimals this week, specifically studying decimal place value, equivalent decimals, and comparing and ordering decimals. This is a short chapter, so look for a “quest” the following week.

Important Dates:

October 27 -- School Improvement Day/Early Dismissal

October 28 – Halloween parade and party

November 3 – Picture retakes

November 7 – Classroom trade fair

November 11 – Veterans' Day – no school

Have a great weekend! Mrs. Klacza

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