Week of 11/4/19 - 11/8/19

Thank you for joining me for a conference this week!  It was 

wonderful sitting down with you all and discussing your wonderful

children.  

Thank you, also,  to the wonderful moms who are planning and carrying 

out our Halloween party later today.  I know it will be amazing! Be safe
out there when trick-or-treating!

Coming Up Next Week:

Spelling:  Menu homework will be due on or before 11/8. The test will 

also happen on that day.

Reading & Language Arts:  We’ll be starting our Myths lesson; this week

we’ll focus on King Midas.

November reading logs will be going home today.  They are due back 

on or before December 1.

Social Science: Our Downers Grove test will be on Wednesday, 11/6. 

A study guide has gone home!!

Mrs. Klacza's Math Class: This week our focus will be on Algorithms

for addition and subtraction (Stacking.)  A pretest (study guide) will be

coming home on Tuesday.  The Unit 3 final test will be on Wednesday, 

11/13.

Important Dates:  

11/1 - Day off for conferences

11/4 - Teachers’ Institute (Day off)

11/12 - Senior Center Visit (permission slips coming soon!)

11/21 - Downers Grove Field Trip (with Mandru’s class)

Week of 10/28/19 - 11/1/19

Halloween is almost here!  Please make sure your child brings his/her

costume to school in a bag on Halloween (Thursday.)   Costumes should be
easy to get on and off. Students will be changing in the classroom (we separate
the boys and the girls.) If you have any questions, send me an email.

Don’t forget about the parade (which will begin at 1:55ish.) 

Hopefully the weather will cooperate!

I’ll see you all next week for conferences!

Coming Up Next Week:

Spelling:  A new set of words will be coming home on Monday with a

pink menu. That homework will be due on or before 11/8.

Reading & Language Arts:  We’ll continue our writing this coming week!

Our big writing project,“Buy My Haunted House” has been assigned and

discussed.  Students will be using adjectives, similes, and all kinds

of descriptive words.

October reading logs are due by October 31.

Social Science: We are finishing up our Downers Grove unit.  Our test

Will be on 11/6.  A study guide will go home on 10/29.

Mrs. Klacza's Math Class: We are moving along in Unit 3. We’ll

continue to focus on multi-digit addition and subtraction.  There will be

a short quiz on Monday going over rounding to the nearest 10 and 100,

word problems with estimating/rounding AND finding exact answers, and

adding and subtracting using “stack em up.”

Important Dates:  

10/29 & 10/30 - Conferences (homeroom only)

10/31 - Halloween Parade & Party

11/1 - Day off for conferences

11/4 - Teachers’ Institute (Day off)

11/12 - Senior Center Visit (permission slips coming soon!)

11/21 - Downers Grove Field Trip (with Mandru’s class)

Week of 10/21/19 - 10/25/19

Thank you to all the parents who signed up for a conference! I got a
100% of you to sign up! That is a record for me! Have a great weekend.

Coming Up Next Week:

Spelling:  Menu homework is due on or before Friday, October 25.

The test will also take place that day.  I introduced the students to

“Pyramid words” which they may do on notebook paper and use as

one of their tasks.

Reading & Language Arts:  We’ll be doing a lot of writing this coming week!

Students will be describing a mystery object of their choice and also 

having some fun with similes.  This all leads to our big writing project,

“Buy My Haunted House.” Students will be using adjectives and all kinds

of descriptive words.

October reading logs are due by November 1.

Social Science: We are studying Downers Grove with our focus on

Israel Blodgett and his family, Prince Pond, the Tivoli Theater

and the Underground Railroad. 

Mrs. Klacza's Math Class: We are moving along in Unit 3. We’ll keep

our focus on strategies for subtraction.  

Important Dates:  

10/29 & 10/30 - Conferences (homeroom only)

10/31 - Halloween Parade & Party

11/1 - Day off for conferences

11/4 - Teachers’ Institute (Day off)

Week of 10/14/19 - 10/18/19

We are halfway through the 1st trimester of third grade!  Can you believe it?

Hopefully, grades are being monitored online.  If you are having problems doing so,please call the office. Have a wonderful Columbus Day weekend! I’m hoping the weather will cooperate but I’m not too hopeful!!!

A separate email will be going out today to homeroom parents for

conference sign up.  They will be scheduled for the last week of

October.

Coming Up Next Week:

Spelling:  Our second spelling test will take place today. Menu homework

was also due. On Tuesday, students will be getting their new words and

menu. It’ll be due on or before Friday, October 25.

Reading & Language Arts: Morty the Meany and Morty and the Twice Fit Mice

will be the stories we’re reading this week. We’ll also start our unit on

descriptive writing. 

We started Daily Oral Language this week, focusing on capitalization and
end marks. There will be a quiz on Friday.

October reading logs are due by November 1.

Social Science: We are studying Downers Grove with our focus on

Pierce Downer, Israel Blodgett and his family, the Potawami Indians, and

the Underground Railroad. 

Mrs. Klacza's Math Class: We are moving along in Unit 3. This week’s 

focus will be on multi-digit subtraction. There will be a short checkpoint quiz on Wednesday.  

Important Dates:  

10/14 - Columbus Day (no school)

10/29 & 10/30 - Conferences (homeroom only)

10/31 - Halloween Parade & Party

11/1 - Day off for conferences

11/4 - Teachers’ Institute (Day off)

Week of 10/7/19 - 10/11/19

What a weird weather week we had this week; talk about a giant dip

in temperature! Fall picture packets are coming home today. Check your
child's backpack!! Enjoy the brisk weekend everyone!

Coming Up Next Week:

Spelling:  Three menu activities are required to be turned in on or before

Friday, 10/11. The test will also be on Friday the 11th. 

Reading & Language Arts:  This week we’ll be reading The Tortoise and 

the Hare, focusing on theme (lesson.) The students will also be 

completing a fun growth mindset activity. 

October reading logs are due by November 1.

Social Science: We have now completed our unit on hemispheres. Next

week, we begin our Downers Grove unit!  First up will be the history

0f DG starting with our founder, Pierce Downer  This unit leads to

a really fun field trip coming up in the near future.

Mrs. Klacza's Math Class: We have now completed Unit 1 in our Bridges 

series. Next week, we’ll start Unit 3.  We are skipping Unit 2 and will

return to it after Unit 3.  We feel the flow is better this way.

Our specific focus will be rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100.

Important Dates:  

10/14 - Columbus Day (no school)

10/31 - Halloween Parade & Party

11/1 - Day off for conferences

11/4 - Teachers’ Institute (Day off)