Week of 10/8/12 - 10/12/12

I hope you all have a wonderful 3-day weekend honoring Columbus Day. Please make sure you are checking your child's grades on-line. October 26 is the end of the first quarter.

Coming up this week:

Spelling: This week, we will be taking a pretest on LESSON 7 on Tuesday. The cursive worksheet is homework on Tuesday. On Wednesday, depending on what group your child is in (challenge or non-challenge) the homework will either be 1 challenge activities OR ABC order and 1 workbook page. The homework assigned on Wednesday will be due on Thursday.  The final test is on Friday. The students will only be tested on the regular spelling words; challenge words will not be tested. (Yes, there is less homework because of the short week.)

English: I really enjoyed the Me Bag presentations. I think presenting at the front of the class gives the students confidence. They did a great job! This week, we will focus on writing using sensory words.

Reading: We will continue to focus on inferencing this week. The story Ballad of Mulan will be read in conjunction with this reading skill. There will be a vocabulary quiz on Wednesday and a short test on the story on Thursday.

Social Studies: We will continue discussing continents and oceans. Our test will be on Wednesday. The students will have a word bank, so please do not panic and force your child to spell the words correctly. I will expect the words spelled right, but they can refer to the bank. Students will be looking at a map and figuring out where the continents and oceans go. It will look very similar to the study guide.

Science: We will take a break from science as we explore social studies this week. The graded chapter 9 tests will be going home on Monday.

Mrs. Klacza's Math Class: Graded tests will be going home on Monday, but the grades are already on line. We will start chapter 3 on addition this week. Students will be learning about the addition properties, missing addends, and how to estimate sums. There will be a checkpoint quiz on Monday, 10/15.

Important Dates:

10/8 – Columbus Day, no school

10/25 – Early Dismissal (11:00 PV)

10/26 – End of quarter 1

10/31 – Halloween festivities

Have a great 3-day weekend! Mrs. Klacza