Week of 10/2/17 - 10/6/17

Can you believe tomorrow is the last day of September?  The year feels like it is already flying by.  This week we had a blast celebrating Johnny Appleseed’s birthday. The applesauce was delicious!

Lifetouch will be at Prairieview on Tuesday, October 3rd for retakes. If you would like your child's picture retaken, please return the original picture package with your child on or before Oct 3rd (retake day). Lifetouch will re-photograph free of charge and provide you with new pictures in a few weeks. Students who were absent on the original picture day should have received an order form to have their picture taken this Tuesday. Questions? Please call the office at 630-783-5100.

Coming Up Next Week:

Spelling:   New word lists will be going home on Monday.  Homework menus will also be going home; the three activities will be due on or before 10/13.  PLEASE make sure your child uses notebook paper to do their work.

Reading & Language Arts:  This week, we’ll be working on theme/setting/plot and vizualization.  We’ll be comparing a couple of stories in a series and also “vizualizing” a funny witch and a crazy monster.  This should be fun!

The September (pink) reading logs are due on Monday.  Many students have already handed them in.  A new October log is coming home today.  These are worth 10 points.

Social Science:  We will be starting our unit on Downers Grove history this week! This unit leads to a really fun field trip visiting historical places all around our town.  

Mrs. Klacza's Math Class:  The graded Unit 1 tests are coming home today.  We are starting Unit 2 “Introduction to Multiplication.”  Our first checkpoint for this unit will be on 10/10.

Important Dates:  

9/27 - Early Dismissal

10/9 - Columbus Day

Have a great weekend!!

Week of 9/25/17 - 9/29/17

Happy Friday everyone! A note came home yesterday regarding Johnny Appleseed’s birthday on Tuesday, September 26. Please make sure you send your child in with a peeled, cored, sliced apple so we can make our delicious applesauce!   It can be any kind of apple.  The smells in the third grade wing on Tuesday will be amazing!!!!

Please make sure your child is charging his/her Chromebook every night. So many are coming back to school and needing to charge them and it's considered homework!! Thank you!

Coming Up Next Week:

Spelling:   Please make sure your child is working on his/her spelling menu activities. They will be due on or before Friday, 9/29. They should complete one activity in each column.  The test will also be on 9/29.

Reading & Language Arts:  This week, we’ll read the fable The Tortoise and the Hare.  Discussions will include: What is a fable?  What is the moral of the story? We’ll also continue to do writing some writing activities this week.

Please remember to keep track of your child’s reading (20 minutes, 20 days) on the pink reading log.  They will turn it in on or before October 1.  If your child is finished, send it in!!   

Social Science:  There will be a short quiz Tuesday on Hemispheres.  A study guide is going home today. We’ll be starting our unit on the history of Downers Grove very soon!

Mrs. Klacza's Math Class:  A pretest is coming home today (in the homework pocket of the binder) and it is due on Tuesday.  This is our study guide.  It pretty much mirrors the test, so I encourage you to go over your child’s answers for accuracy and discussion.  We will go over each and every problem and I will answer any and all questions on Tuesday.  The test for unit 1 will be Thursday.

Important Dates:  

9/26 - Johnny Appleseed’s Birthday

9/27 - Early Dismissal

10/9 - Columbus Day

Have a great weekend!!

Week of 9/18/17 - 9/22/18

Happy Friday everyone!   I just want to remind you all to check your child’s assignment notebook (planner) every night and sign it.  We still have some students who are not handing in homework (spelling,) yet the assignments are all clearly written in the planner.  If you need to jot me a quick note, write it in the planner; I check it every day :)

 COMING UP THIS WEEK

Spelling:   A new spelling “sort” and homework menu will be coming home on Monday.  I hope my students are sorting their words and practicing their spelling patterns!  The menu homework will be due on or before 9/29. There were many students that didn’t have the homework that was due today finished.  Please make sure they have it done and turned in on Monday.  

Reading & Language Arts:  This week we will continue writing in our composition books, focusing on narratives.  We’ll also be “close reading” Rumpelstiltskin.  

Please remember to keep track of your child’s reading (20 minutes, 20 days) on the pink reading log.  They will turn it in on or before October 1.

Social Studies:  There will be a short quiz on 9/19 on Continents and Oceans.  Today, I’m sending home a blank world map so your child can practice filling in the continents and oceans.  Our next section of study will be hemispheres.

Science:   We won’t be starting science yet.

Mrs. Klacza's Math Class:  We’ll really be focusing on double digit addition this week.  There are many strategies for this and we’ll be investigating all of them.  I am tentatively looking at Thursday, 9/28, as the date for our Unit 1 assessment.  I’ll keep you up to date on that test.

Important Dates:  

9/26 - Johnny Appleseed’s Birthday

9/27 - Early Dismissal

10/9 - Columbus Day

Have a great weekend!!

Week of 9/11/17 - 9/15/17

Happy Friday everyone!   I just want to remind you all to check your child’s assignment notebook (planner) every night and sign it.  This is a handy form of communication and also a way for your child to get a punch in their punch card!

Spelling:   The Spelling menu homework will be due on or before Friday, 9/15. Some activities will require you to initial in the box on the menu.  Some activities will require work done on a sheet of notebook paper.  The test will also be on Friday the 15th.  The test will include 15 words from the student's list (teacher's choice) and 2 sentences, using any of their 2 words.

Reading & Language Arts:  This week we will start informally writing in our composition books; we’ll be focusing on narratives.  We’ll also start our first reading unit, Tales as Old as Time.  

Please remember to keep track of your child’s reading (20 minutes, 20 days) on the pink reading log they brought home yesterday.  They will turn it in on or before October 1.

Social Studies:  Our first graded quiz was a success!  This week, we’ll start a unit on oceans and continents.  I’m looking at 9/19 as a tentative quiz date for this information.  There will, of course, be a study guide coming home next week.

Science:   We won’t be starting science yet.

Mrs. Klacza's Math Class:  This week we’ll be focusing on length, which will include a fun scavenger hunt on Wednesday.  There will be a quick checkpoint quiz this coming Monday on addition and subtraction.

Important Dates:  

9/27 - Early Dismissal

Have a great weekend!!

Week of 9/4/17 - 9/8/17

Happy Labor Day weekend everyone!  Thank you to all the parents who came out for Curriculum Night.  If you were unable to attend or would like to revisit our third grade slide presentation, please email me and I will send home a paper copy with your child.  There seems to be a “glitch” sharing the link, but I’m happy to get you a copy if you weren’t here, or just need to revisit what I shared with you all.   

Spelling:   On Tuesday, your child will be bringing home a word sort and a spelling menu.  As I mentioned on Curriculum Night, they need to choose 3 activities, one from each column.  It will be due on Friday, 9/15.  The test will also be on Friday the 15th.  Some activities will require you to initial in the box on the menu.  Some activities will require work done on a sheet of notebook paper.   I will explain everything to the students on Tuesday and get them started.  

Reading & Language Arts:  We will continue focusing on various reading skills using fun literature.  This week our books will be Lost and Found, Pigsty, Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day, and Zoom.  Our skills studied will be setting plot & theme, and main idea & details.

Please remember to keep track of your child’s reading (20 minutes, 20 days) on the pink reading log they brought home yesterday.  They will turn it in on or before October 1.

Social Studies:  We’ve been studying directions.  A study guide will be going home today.  The quiz will be on Thursday, 9/7.

Science:   We won’t be starting science yet.

Mrs. Klacza's Math Class:  Welcome to the math portion of my blog!  If you were unable to attend and would like my handout about the Bridges units, please email me and I’ll get it to your child.  We’ll be focusing on the addition table and the subtraction table this week.  

Important Dates:  

9/5 - Labor Day (no school)

9/27 - Early Dismissal

Have a great, long weekend!!