Weekly Events:
*No School on Monday - Columbus Day.
*Spelling pretest on Tuesday.
*Jr. Achievement on Wednesday with Mr. Blocker.
*Magazine Drive - Mario Kart Assembly on Wednesday.
*Spelling test on Friday.
*TFK quiz on Friday.
Coming Attractions:
*Early Dismissal on Thursday, October 24.
*Halloween Party on Thursday, October 31.
*Realistic Fiction Memory Book Bag due Tuesday, November 5.
Coupon Books:
The PTO is selling coupon books this year to help fund the purchase of tablets for our students. If you wish to purchase a book, please send in $25 made payable to the Prairieview PTO. If you do not wish to buy the book, please send it back with your student. The deadline is October 29th. The books have some great local coupons in them and really pay for themselves while the school gets half the money of all books sold! The grade that sells the most books (15 books minimum) will get a movie and a treat on Tuesday, November 26th and each grade level student who sells the most books (5 book minimum) will get a $100 Target gift card! Please contact Pam Topp (pam_topp@yahoo.com) or Maureen Gibbons (maureen.gibbons@comcast.net) if you have questions or would like more books to sell. There are some great holiday shopping discounts available....take a look!!!!
Book Fair:
Prairieview will be having a Book Fair and Taffy Apple Sale on Thursday, October 17. Visit this link for more information: http://bookfairs.scholastic.com/homepage/prairieviewelementaryschool15
Spelling - The children will take a spelling pretest on Tuesday. If they miss 1 or none, they will become a challenge speller. Since this is only a 4 day week, challenge spellers will only need to do 2 activities and the practice sheet. All spelling activities are due Friday. Regular and Challenge spelling tests will be given on Friday.
English - We will begin a new unit this week on Nouns. This week will review: What is a Noun?, Common & Proper Nouns, and Singular & Plural Nouns.
Reading - We have started our unit on Informational Text (Non-fiction). Last week, we reviewed informational text features like a table of contents, headings, subheadings, index, glossary, illustrations, captions, and much more. The children also were introduced to text structures which include sequence/chronological order, cause and effect, problem and solution, compare and contrast, and description. We will continue learning about text structures this week. The children will be reading many short passages and deciding which type of text structure it represents.
Science - The children will finish their Snow Leopard brochures this week. For our first "tech project," they have done a wonderful job. We will begin our next science unit during the week of October 21. Don't forget...you can check their progress on this project on their Google Apps account. The username is: 17lastname@ccsd66.org. The password is their school network password twice with no space in between.
Social Studies - How could an entire colony disappear? This week we will discuss "The Lost Colony - Roanoke Island." We will become CSI detectives as we analyze different scenarios that could have happened.
Mrs. Sulima's Math Class:
Monday - No school.
Tuesday - Test & Vocabulary Introduction
Wednesday - Pretest on our next unit.
Thursday - Determined based on pretests.
Friday - Determined based on pretests.
