IMPORTANT DATES:
November 30-Dec 2 Conferences
Dec. 1 Year book orders due
December 4 -No School
December 1st – report cards handed out
December 4th – No School
December 8th - Field Trip to Drury Lane
December 8th – Last day to turn in gifts for our holiday service project
Service Project -Each year Prairieview School adopts needy families of cancer patients who struggle financially. This year we have a special family which includes a 10 year old boy who is struggling with cancer. I will send a letter home with more information. The economy is difficult right now, but if you are able to brighten Christmas for this family in any way, it would be greatly appreciated!
YEARBOOKS: Now’s the time to place your orders. Yearbooks are $10.00 and the deadline for your order is Tuesday, December 1, 2009. No orders will be accepted after that date. Please make checks payable to Lifetouch. Please make sure your student’s name, teacher’s name and grade level are marked on the order form. If you have multiple students, please fill out one for each child. Yearbook order forms went home with your child on November 12th. If your child loses it, you can send an envelope with the following information on it: student’s name, teacher’s name and grade level, along with a check made payable to Lifetouch for $10.00. It is very important that you put this information on the envelope; Lifetouch does not know who your child’s teacher is. Prairieview Yearbook orders were not paid at registration!
Math - We will review the predict and test problem solving strategy. The students will then write, solve and graph inequalities that include variables. They will also find a rule for a number relationship and write an equation fo the rule- Lesson 5.6 & 5.7. On Wednesday, December 1, there will be a test over chapter 5. The students should bring their books home so that they can review and study the skills throughout the chapter. They will bring home a pretest, which will help them review for the test as well.
I will be giving timed test for multiplication every week. Students should continue to study their facts.
Spelling – There will be no spelling this week! The week of November 30th there will be a test on Thursday of that week. The rule for that week is that letters aw are found in many one-syllable words. They may come at the end of the word or just beefore l or n.
Reading - Over the next couple of weeks the studens will be working on sequencing and summarizing. We will begin reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. The children will understand Charles Dicken's motivation for writing the story. They will study character traits, and see how the main character changes throughout the story. They will compare the clothes and homes of the rich and poor today to those in England in the 1800's. They will understand the effect that A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens had on how people celebrated Christmas throughout the world.
English - We will review writing plural nouns that end in y and irregular plural nouns. The students will also review singular and plural possessive nouns.
**There is an English test scheduled for Thursday, Dec. 3 over chapter 2 Nouns. The students should bring home their textbooks to review the lessons at the end of the chapter for extra practie.
Social Studies - Test on Tuesday, Nov. 24th.
The students should know:
All vocabularystudy all sheets in their
did the Europeans trade with the Native Americans?
Cause of the American Revolutionfirst capital of the U.S.
Where is Ellis Island and what happened there?
What are reasons for immigrants coming to America?
Women's rights reformer
Why do women want the right to vote?
Which cities began as ports?
What do Philadelphia, New York City and Boston have in common?
Important people of the Northeast and why they are famous
Thirteenth Amendment & Nineteenth Amendment
differences between Philadelphia today and in the past
Science This week in science the students will study the life cycles of some plants. They will observe how seeds germinate and describe the life cycle of a flowering plants. They will describe how plants reproduce using only spores.
Please bring in a tuber, a potatoe, to class on Tuesday, November 24th. The more eyes it has the better.
We will also study the life cycles of some animals. They will observe the stages of a animal's life cycle and describe the stages. They will also understand how some animals grow and develop.
A test is planned for Wednesday, December 9th over chapter 2.
The students should know all vocabulary and study all sheets in their folders.
They should be able to indentify a plant that produces seeds and one that produces spores.
What does a seed contain that a spore does not? (food that helps the embryo grow until the new plant can make its own food)
Understand and know the Life cycle of a flowering plant, butterfy and sea horse
examples of direct development
tubers
