Week of 12/2/13 - 12/6/13

I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday filled with good food, family, and friends.  By the way, we all had a fantastic time on our Downers Grove field trip!!   I hope your child told you everything about it!! Prairieview School-Community Service Project proudly collected $550 to sponsor an Edward Hospital Animal Assisted Therapy Program!!!

Thanks to everyone who donated!!!

Coming up next week:

Spelling: Lesson 13 -- Pretest on Monday, Test on Friday.  Cursive HW due Tuesday.  ABC order OR 2 challenge activities due on Thursday.   No Friday test for challenge students!

English: We will continue our unit on verbs with verbs in the future, helping verbs, and the verb “to be.”  There will be a graded review on the first 6 lessons on Wednesday..

Reading:  This week we will read the story Dogzilla and learn about evaluating and visualizing.  A vocabulary quiz on the words we learn on Monday will take place on Thursday.  A comprehension quiz on the story will take place on Friday.

Social Studies:  We are taking a social studies break this week.

Science:   We will reread Lesson 2 (matter) on Monday and take an open book and note graded review on Tuesday.  We’ll then start reading Lesson 3 later in the week.  

Mrs. Klacza's Math Class:  We continue our Division unit this week.  We’ll specifically study the relationship between multiplication and division.  The unit test will be Tuesday, 12/10.

Important Dates:

11/27 - 11/29 - Days off for Thanksgiving

12/2 - Back to school!

12/17 - Early Dismissal (11:00)

12/19 - 3rd graders go bowling!

12/20 - Last day of school before holiday break

Have a great, long weekend! Mrs. Klacza