IMPORTANT DATES:
Tuesday, November 17th – Rollerskating Party
Thursday, November 19th – Picture retakes (child must have their picture packet with them)
Holiday Service Project - We are once again going to be involved with the holiday service project helping families who have a child with cancer. Information will be coming home very soon.
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 - This week in math the students will write and evaluate division and multiplication expressions and equations. They will also learn the order of operations to help them solve problems. I will teach them the saying "Please Meet Dear Aunt Sally" to help them remember the order parenthesis, multiplication, division, addition and subtraction. We should be covering lessons 2-4 in chapter 5 this week.
Spelling This week the rule is when an ending is added to a verb that ends with consonant + y, change the y to an i unless the ending ing.
Reading Reading folders should be turned in by Wednesday of this week. Our Reading Club party will be on Friday.
In reading this week, we will continue to study problem and solution in both fiction and nonfiction passages. The students will be assessed on this. They will also work on vocabulary words and finding the synonyms and antonyms of words.
All students need to have their silent reading books that I have approved finished by Monday and in class on Monday. We will begin a project with them on Monday.
English -The students will review nouns this week. They will understand the difference between common and proper nouns. There will be a short quiz on nouns and identifying common and proper nouns.
Science This week the students will continue to study about heredity. They will also learn about the life cycles of plants.
Social Studies - The students will learn about abolitionists from Philadelphia who met to form the American Anti-Slavery Society. They will learn about the thirteenth ammendment that made slavery illegal in th U.S. The students will explain similarities and differences between the abolitionist movement and the women's rights movement.
The test scheduled for Friday has been changed. It will now be on Tuesday, November 24.
The students should know:
All vocabulary
study all sheets in their folders
understand the Iroquois Confederacy
What did the Europeans trade with the Native Americans?
Cause of the American Revolution
first 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
What are the differences between Philadelphia today and in the past?
