Weekly Reminders:*No spelling pretest or test the week of November 22.
* "Check Your Progress" math quiz (chapter 3, lessons 1-5) on Tuesday, November 23.
*Picture retakes on Tuesday, November 23. Must have picture packet or picture order form.
*Report Cards are issued on Tuesday, November 23.
*No school on Wednesday, November 24-Friday, November 26.
*Open-book/notes Chapter 3, lesson 3 science quiz on Monday, November 29.
*Parent Teacher conferences of Monday, November 29 - Wednesday, December 1.
*Spelling pretest on Monday, November 29.
*Capitalization and Punctuation Test on Tuesday, November 30.
* "Check Your Progress" math quiz (chapter 3, lessons 6-9) on Thursday, December 2.
*Spelling test on Thursday, December 2.
*No school on Friday, December 3.
Plan Ahead:
*Southeast Map test on Tuesday, December 7.
*Movie night on Friday, December 10.
*Project Challenge on Tuesday, December 14.
*Bowling field trip on Thursday, December 16 in afternoon.
*Winter Break, December 20-December 31.
Holiday Service Project: The students of Project Challenge grades 3-5 are participating in a Lion's Club Holiday Drive. We are looking for donations such as new toys, new games, toiletries, and food for the needy families in the Darien area. If you wish to participate you will need to bring the donations in by December 13. Remember that some of these families live right here in Darien. So let's help these families have a happy holiday season. PLEASE DONATE!
Homeroom Happenings:
Science - We will compare living things of the past with living things today. The students will take an open-book/notes quiz on chapter 3, lesson 3 on Monday, November 29. We will not be taking a test on chapter 3. Instead, the children will be involved in a creative project called Prairieview Creature. The construction of this creature will need to be done at home. The children will plan out the creature at school. Please help your child find items, that you aleady have around the house, to help them construct their creature. Creatures will be due on Monday, December 6.
Social Studies - We will begin our tour of the Southeast. The children will fill out the capital cities and state names on a map. They will have their Southeast Map test on Tuesday, December 7. As before, the children will need to correctly locate and spell all the states in the Southeast. They can also earn bonus points for correctly identifying the capital cities. Capital cities will be worth 1/4 point bonus each. We will look at the Coastal Plains and Mountains of the Southeast. The children will be drawing a diagram to represent all the different elevations in the Southeast.
Spelling - We will not have spelling during the week of November 22. On November 29, we will take our spelling pretest. We do not have school on Friday, December 3, so our test will be on Thursday, December 2. The test will need to be done in cursive. We will practice writing the words in cursive during class.
English - We will fill out our "how to study" sheet on Monday, November 22. On Tuesday, November 30, the children will take the Unit 5, Capitalization and Punctuation, Test. English enrichments will also be due on test day.
Reading - Over the next couple of weeks we will be reviewing the skills that we have gone over since the beginning of the year. The students will also work on summarizing and making generalizations. In writing summaries the students will learn to pick out the main points or events of a story or passage and concisely put them in their own words. In making generalizations the students will learn that generalizations are broad statements that are true most of the time, they are based on fact or good reasons, and may include words like always or most.
Accelerated Math Menu:
Monday, November 22 - Zeros in the quotient. HW: WB pg. 30.
Tuesday, November 23 - "Check Your Progress" quiz on lessons 1-5.
Monday, November 29 - Short Division. HW: WB pg. 31.
Tuesday, November 30 - Divisibility and Mental Math. HW: WB pg. 32.
Wednesday, December 1 - Estimation using Compatible Numbers. HW: WB pg. 33 & "Check Your Progress" quiz tomorrow.
Thursday, December 2 - "Check Your Progress" quiz on lessons 6-9.
Paper Recycling Fundraiser Comes to Prairieview: We are happy to announce we can now raise money for our district by recycling paper! You can help us out, too! Please collect any paper you are going to throw away or recycle (office and school paper, newspaper, magazines and catalogs, and construction paper---no cardboard!) and send it in with your child to school or drop it off at the green and yellow Paper Retriever bin in the Lakeview parking lot (near the fence by the Prairieview playground). The bin is available for drop offs 24/7. The more paper we recycle, the more money we can make! Do something good for our schools AND the environment! Thank you!
