Things to Remember:
November 23 -- Report Cards
November 24, 25, 26 -- Thanksgiving Holiday -- No School
December 3 -- Parent/Teacher Conferences -- No School
I hope you all have a happy Thanksgiving!
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!
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! member:
Spelling: For the week of November 29th, the pattern this week will be words with the r controlled vowels that are : ear, eer, ar, are, air - Watch out for heart, weird, and scarce. They have different spellings than the regular r controlled words.
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.
Math- The students will learn to write, solve, and graph inequalities that include variables. An inequality is a mathematical sentence that uses symbols <, >, ≠, =, and shows a relationship between two quantities that are not equal, for example 4 > 3. Please continue to have your child practice their multiplication and division facts.
There will be a math test covering chapter 5 on Thursday of this week. Please review all the work in their folders. There will be a review sheet sent home this week too.
Language Arts - The students are learning about figurative language and how to use it in their writing. This week they learned about similes, metaphors, personification, and hyperbole, and they read books to find examples of figurative language in their reading. They will continue to practice using figurative language effectively in their writing.
Science - Why do we say that living things follow a cycle? They are born, grow, reporduce, die, and decay, and their nutrients are often taken up by plants, which then grow, reproduce, and so on. The plants provide energy so animals can complete their life cycles. The students will understand that growing, dieing, and decaying are all apart of a living thing's life cycle. We will also learn how behaviors of animals help them to meet their needs. The students will learn about instinct, hibernation, migration, and learned behaviors.
Social Studies -The students will be able to describe the climate of the Southeast, and they will examine hurricanes. They will study how the climate of the Southeast changes as you move north? We will also learn about the wildlife and resources of the Southeast. The students will describe the importance of protecting endangered species. They will identify ways in which resources of the Southeast are used.
Friday, November 19, 2010
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
News From Mrs. Cavoto's Room Nov. 15-19
Things to Remember:
November 24, 25, 26 -- Thanksgiving Holiday -- No Schoool
December 3 -- Parent/Teacher Conferences -- No School
If anyone has any pieces of material to send in for an art project that would be great. We are looking to cut about 1 inch squares from them for our scarecrows.
Conferences Nov. 29-Dec.3- Notices will be sent home. Please send them back to confirm your time with me. If you need to change just let me know.
Math - The students should continue to practice their multiplication facts. I will be giving timed tests on Friday to review the multiplication facts. Once they have shown me they know their multiplication facts, I will test them on their division facts. This week the students will learn the properties of multiplication: Associative, identity, Zero property, and Commutative Property. They will also practice writing multiplication and division expressions.
Spelling - Words spelled with oo may have different sounds. They may have the sounds as in tool, or wood. Workbook pages 137-139 are assigned this week. The children who have pretested out will choose the three different activities to do with their words. WB pages and activities are due on Friday.
Reading - We will work on making inferences and evaluating during reading this week. Good readers should always think about their reactions to what they are reading and why they are reacting that way. This strategy is called “evaluating”. As you are reading the story think about these things: How does the author make the story come alive and make you want to keep reading? What was entertaining, informative, or useful about what you read? How did you react to the story? Did you agree or disagree with what you read? How well did you understand what you were reading? Did you enjoy reading it?
English - This week we will begin descriptive writing. The students will learn how to use colorful language to make their writing come alive. They will work with similes and adjectives as they find them in their reading as well as using them in their writing.
Social Studies The students will identify and describe major landforms in the Southeast. They will be able to explain how barrier islands are formed, and compare and contrast the landform elevations in the Southeast.
Science - This week we will begin a unit on Adaptations. The students will study how the bodies of animals help them meet their needs. What are the basic needs of all living things? (food, water, air, and shelter)
November 24, 25, 26 -- Thanksgiving Holiday -- No Schoool
December 3 -- Parent/Teacher Conferences -- No School
If anyone has any pieces of material to send in for an art project that would be great. We are looking to cut about 1 inch squares from them for our scarecrows.
Conferences Nov. 29-Dec.3- Notices will be sent home. Please send them back to confirm your time with me. If you need to change just let me know.
Math - The students should continue to practice their multiplication facts. I will be giving timed tests on Friday to review the multiplication facts. Once they have shown me they know their multiplication facts, I will test them on their division facts. This week the students will learn the properties of multiplication: Associative, identity, Zero property, and Commutative Property. They will also practice writing multiplication and division expressions.
Spelling - Words spelled with oo may have different sounds. They may have the sounds as in tool, or wood. Workbook pages 137-139 are assigned this week. The children who have pretested out will choose the three different activities to do with their words. WB pages and activities are due on Friday.
Reading - We will work on making inferences and evaluating during reading this week. Good readers should always think about their reactions to what they are reading and why they are reacting that way. This strategy is called “evaluating”. As you are reading the story think about these things: How does the author make the story come alive and make you want to keep reading? What was entertaining, informative, or useful about what you read? How did you react to the story? Did you agree or disagree with what you read? How well did you understand what you were reading? Did you enjoy reading it?
English - This week we will begin descriptive writing. The students will learn how to use colorful language to make their writing come alive. They will work with similes and adjectives as they find them in their reading as well as using them in their writing.
Social Studies The students will identify and describe major landforms in the Southeast. They will be able to explain how barrier islands are formed, and compare and contrast the landform elevations in the Southeast.
Science - This week we will begin a unit on Adaptations. The students will study how the bodies of animals help them meet their needs. What are the basic needs of all living things? (food, water, air, and shelter)
Friday, November 5, 2010
News From Mrs. Cavoto's Room Nov. 8-12
Things to Remember:
Thursday, November 11 - No School Veterans' Day
Friday, November 12 -- End of Trimester
Tuesday, November 23 -- Report Cards
Wednesday, November 24, 25, 26 -- Thanksgiving Holiday -- No Schoool
Friday, December 3 -- Parent/Teacher Conferences -- No School
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 will be picture retake day. Any student that did not have their picture taken prior to this date may do so. They will be required to have a picture envelope with money to have a picture taken. Any student wishing to have a picture retaken will have to return the original picture packet for a retake.
Spelling The ou sound which can be spelled with ou or ow and the o sound which can be spelled with aw, au, or a before l will be the focus this week. There will be a test on Friday.
Math - There will be a test on Friday of this week over chapter 4 lessons 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.7, 4.8. They should also understand even and odd numbers. They should know that: When you multiply two even numbers you get an even number. When you mulitiply two odd numbers you get an odd number. When you multiply an even and an odd number you get an even number.
Reading This week, we will focus on two important reading strategies. The first reading strategy that we will discuss is to make predictions, or educated guesses about what will happen next in the story. The second reading strategy that we will apply is the use of inferences, or the ability to figure something out even though it isn't exactly stated in the story. Additionally, we will focus on sequencing events in literature.
English We will work on Possessive plural nouns this week and then review for the test which will be on Wednesday of this week. The test will be on nouns which is chapter 2. Homework will come home each night for the kids to practice. There is lots of extra practice at the end of the chapter.
Science In science this week the students will have an open book quiz which will cover the concepts that they have learned in chapter 2 lesson 2 & 3.
Social Studies - We will travel to the Southeast Region this week. The students will fill in a map for homework. They will be given a checklist so they know what to include in their maps. There will be a test on the states and the bodies of water in the Southeast Region on Friday. Extra points will be given if they can label the capitals of the states.
Thursday, November 11 - No School Veterans' Day
Friday, November 12 -- End of Trimester
Tuesday, November 23 -- Report Cards
Wednesday, November 24, 25, 26 -- Thanksgiving Holiday -- No Schoool
Friday, December 3 -- Parent/Teacher Conferences -- No School
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 will be picture retake day. Any student that did not have their picture taken prior to this date may do so. They will be required to have a picture envelope with money to have a picture taken. Any student wishing to have a picture retaken will have to return the original picture packet for a retake.
Spelling The ou sound which can be spelled with ou or ow and the o sound which can be spelled with aw, au, or a before l will be the focus this week. There will be a test on Friday.
Math - There will be a test on Friday of this week over chapter 4 lessons 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, 4.7, 4.8. They should also understand even and odd numbers. They should know that: When you multiply two even numbers you get an even number. When you mulitiply two odd numbers you get an odd number. When you multiply an even and an odd number you get an even number.
Reading This week, we will focus on two important reading strategies. The first reading strategy that we will discuss is to make predictions, or educated guesses about what will happen next in the story. The second reading strategy that we will apply is the use of inferences, or the ability to figure something out even though it isn't exactly stated in the story. Additionally, we will focus on sequencing events in literature.
English We will work on Possessive plural nouns this week and then review for the test which will be on Wednesday of this week. The test will be on nouns which is chapter 2. Homework will come home each night for the kids to practice. There is lots of extra practice at the end of the chapter.
Science In science this week the students will have an open book quiz which will cover the concepts that they have learned in chapter 2 lesson 2 & 3.
Social Studies - We will travel to the Southeast Region this week. The students will fill in a map for homework. They will be given a checklist so they know what to include in their maps. There will be a test on the states and the bodies of water in the Southeast Region on Friday. Extra points will be given if they can label the capitals of the states.
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