Weekly Reminders:*Lesson 11 spelling pretest on Monday.
*Chapter 5 Social Studies Test (lessons 1-3) on Tuesday.
*No school on Wednesday - Veteran's Day.
*PTO Dine-out Fundraiser on Thursday - Click for details:
http://www.ccsd66.org/PTO/FundRaiser/Goroma.pdf
*Chapter 1 Science Test on Friday.
*Lesson 11 spelling test on Friday.
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Pizza PartyOn Friday, November 13, our class will be awarded with a pizza party for our Box Top Collection. We will be having cheese pizza and a water will be provided for each child. If your child has a big appetite, you may want to send them with chips or a snack. If your child does not eat pizza, they should bring a sack lunch or get hot lunch that day. We will be eating in the classroom. We were unable to finish Charlotte's Web during our classroom celebration, so we will finish it during our pizza party. The children will be going out for recess. Keep sending in the Box Tops!
Plan Ahead:
*Roller Skating party on Tuesday, November 17, 3:45-6:30.
*A Family Apart Test on Wednesday, November 18.
*Picture Retakes on Thursday, November 19 - Students must have original picture packet or original order envelope in hand.
*Parent Focus Group on Thursday, November 19 at Prairieview. All are welcome!
*End of first trimester on Friday, November 20.
*Southeast Map Test on Monday, November 23.
Homeroom Happenings:
Science - We have finished reading the lessons in chapter 1. The students will brainstorm ways to study for the chapter 1 test on Monday. On Tuesday, we will play bingo with key words and phrases to review for the test. The chapter 1 test will be on Friday.
Topics to review for the test:
How are living things classified?
*Identify and describe structures that make up plant cells and animal cells.
*Describe the characteristics of one-celled organisms, bacteria, and protists.
*Define organism, microscopic, bacteria, and protist.
How are plants and fungi classified?
*Describe the structures of vascular and nonvascular plants.
*Describe the structure of fungi.
*Define vascular, nonvascular, and fungi.
How are animals classified?
*Describe characteristics of vertebrates.
*Describe characteristics of invertebrates.
*Define vertebrates and invertebrates.
Social Studies - The children will be taking the chapter 5 (lessons 1-3 only) test on Tuesday. This test is NOT open-book.
Topics to review for the test:
*Describe the key events that affected the Narragansett way of life once European settlers arrived.
*Define Sachem, cooperation, wigwam, reservation, powwow, and confederacy.
*Describe what goods the Europeans and Native Americans traded.
*Iroquois lived in longhouses and formed the Iroquois Confederacy.
*Identify events leading from colonization up to the founding of the United States.
*Be able to put these events in order: Colonists protest against England, Colonies are founded, The U.S. wins the American Revolution, The Declaration of Independence is signed, and The Constitution is written (these are not in the correct order).
*Identify reasons the Colonists wanted to be free from England.
*Identify the city in the Northeast where most European immigrants arrived in the 1800's.
*Explain why immigrants came to the United States.
*Define colony and revolution.
*Explain similarities and differences between the abolitionist movement and the women's rights movement.
*Define abolitionist, slave, and convention.
*Identify important women's rights reformers.
*Explain why reformers fought to win voting rights for women.
Spelling - We will be working with lesson 11 this week. The words practice adding "er" and "est" to words that end in "y". Please have your children practice their spelling words in cursive.
English - The children will take the next English pretest on Tuesday. They will receive their contracts on Thursday. I will meet with each child on Friday to approve their enrichment work.
W.O.W. Words - We will not have a set of W.O.W. words this week.
Reading - We will finish A Family Apart this week. The children will work on the GIST summarizing strategy. We will try to summarize a chapter in 20 words. We will also work on character traits. The children will take a test on A Family Apart. The test will be on Wednesday, November 18. The children will fill out a "how to study" sheet this Friday and will receive a helpful study sheet.
Accelerated Math Menu:
Monday - The children will be working on coordinate graphing.
Tuesday - We will be taking a 5-minute multiplication test today. This will be graded. The children will also learn about stem-and-leaf plots.
Wednesday - No School.
Thursday - We will work on probability.
Friday - We will continue to work on probability.
