Weekly Reminders:*Classroom "practice" spelling bee on Monday.
*Spelling pretest on Monday.
*Reading MAPs testing on Monday (homeroom students)
*Field Trip to Argonne Labs on Tuesday, 9:30-1:30.
*Dan Kirk Juggler Assembly on Wednesday at 12:30.
*Classroom spelling bee on Thursday. Two winners will go to grade level spell-off.
*First book club discussion on Thursday. Students must have book and discussion sheet.
*Math MAPs testing on Thursday (homeroom students)
*Spelling test, in cursive, on Friday.
Plan Ahead:
*No school on Monday, January 17.
*P.T.O. Dine-Out Fundraiser at Papa Passero's on Monday, January 17. Click here for more information: http://www.ccsd66.org/PTO/FundRaisers/Papas.pdf
*Straight A's recognized at Board Meeting on Tuesday, January 11, 7:00.
*Bingo Night on Friday, January 28.
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MAP testing: Once again, we will be taking MAP tests on Monday January 10th and Thursday, January 13th. Please make sure your child gets a good dinner and a good night's rest before these tests. Also, make sure they have a healthy breakfast and a healthy snack on the morning of these tests.
Argonne Labs Field Trip: We will take our field trip to Argonne Labs on Tuesday, January 11. The children are to bring a sack lunch/drink. Also, all visitors to Argonne must wear long pants and closed shoes. Students are expected to be on their best behavior at all times. We will be involved in 4 learning labs: Spectrophotometers, Superconductivity, Science of Toys (scientific method), and (just added...only for our visit on Tuesday) Forensics. Thank you to Mrs. Edwards, Mrs. McGlynn, and Mr. Hoffman for volunteering to come with us on this wonderful field trip.
Homeroom Happenings:
Science - We will continue learning about the human body. This lesson covers the nervous system, skeletal system, and muscular system. The children will take a quiz on this material on Tuesday, January 18.
Social Studies - The children will be collecting information about important people in Black history. Midweek, they will choose one of these people to research further. We will be making a special book, called a "Just Look" book about our famous person. On Wednesday, January 19, we will watch a movie about Ruby Bridges. This movie displays the important part she played in the Civil Rights Movement.
English - We will continue working on Unit 1. This unit focuses on the sentence. During the week the children will be involved in lessons on subjects & predicates, simple subject, simple predicates, and correcting run-on sentences. The test on this short unit will be during the week of January 17.
Spelling - The children are doing a wonderful job on their cursive writing. Thank you for encouraging them to practice at home. We will take our pretest on Monday and our final test on Friday.
Reading - This week the children will work on identifying the problem and solution of a story as they are reading. Most stories involve a problem for the characters to solve. The solution to the problem may come after others have been tried.
Mrs. Sulima's Reading Class -Your child is going to be involved in their first 4th grade book club on Thursday. They will need to bring their book and completed discussion sheet. As a club, the children have decided what chapters they are to read for this first discussion. Please make sure your child does not read ahead....I know they will be tempted. It is very frustrating when the children are discussing the book and a member shares information from a chapter that the rest of the club has not read.
Accelerated Math Menu:
Monday - No math due to MAPs testing.
Tuesday - No math due to the Argonne Field trip (Beseth, Cavoto, & Sulima).
Wednesday - Measuring, drawing, and identifying angles. HW: WB pgs. 113 & 114 due Friday.
Thursday - No math due to MAPs testing.
Friday - Polygons. HW: WB pg. 115.
