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.
