Friday, December 20, 2013

Week of 1/6/14 - 1/10/14

I hope you all have a joyous and healthy holiday. Enjoy your families and keep them close; I know I will. See you all in 2014!!
We will come back in January to MAP testing.  Please make sure your child gets plenty of rest and eats a good healthy breakfast & snack.  Our days for testing are shown below.

Coming up next week:
Spelling: Lesson 15.   Pretest on Monday, cursive due on Tuesday.   Challenge activities OR ABC order due on Thursday.   Test Friday for all those using the regular words.   No test for “challenge” words.

English: We will do some writing this week.  We will also work on prefixes/suffixes.

Reading:  This week we start a new story from our basals, The Night of the Pufflings.

Social Studies:  We will begin Chapter 3, “People Move From Place to Place” after the winter break.  Please look out for the letter regarding Culture Day!  Our first Graded Review for lesson 1 will take place on Monday (open book/notes, of course!)

Science:   We’ll start Chapter 12 on Energy.  Our first graded review will be on 1/13.   

Mrs. Klacza's Math Class:  We’ll be MAP testing this week so Tues/Wed. will be non-math days.  The rest of the days we will be finishing up our chapter on multiplication/division by 2, 5, & 10.   The test will take place on Tuesday, 1/14.

Important Dates:
12/20 - Tivoli Field Trip to see The Tale of Despereaux
12/20 - Last day of school before holiday break
1/7 - Reading MAP test
1/7 - Matter Matters field trip
⅛ - Math MAP test
1/15 - Early Dismissal Day (11:00)
1/20 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Bday - No school

Have a great holiday!   Mrs. Klacza

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