Things to Remember:
Friday, Feb. 4- Movie Night
Monday, Feb. 14th - Valentine's Day Party - 1:30
Monday, Feb. 21 - No School President's Day
Thursday, Feb. 24 - Spring Pictures
Friday, Feb. 25 - End of 2nd Trimester
Monday, Feb. 28 - ISAT testing begins - Parent Teacher Conferences
There will be a Valentine's Day party on Monday, February 14th. The students may bring in valentines to pass out to everyone if they wish. There are 24 students in class.
Spelling This week is a review of spelling words. The workbook pages that need to be done by Friday are pages 79-81. If your child passed out of these words then they need to do three activities with their new words.
Reading The reading strategy that we will be studying next week is summarizing. When reading passages, it is not necessary to recall every word. Instead, we will practice using main ideas and supporting evidence to summarize a passage. While reading, a good reader finds the main ideas, whether they are stated or implied. Then, the reader must find supporting evidence to support the main idea. This support may be in the form of details, examples, explanations or descriptions.
In Mrs. Cavoto's reading class we will be finishing up Because of Winn Dixie. The students will have a test covering vocabulary and comprehension of the stories in the book. More information will be sent home regarding the vocabulary next week. We will have a party to celebrate the completion of our novel. The party will be just like the one that the main character, Opal, had in the story. I will be asking for volunteers to help. More information will come home next week.
Math This week in math the students will read and interpret bar graphs, double graphs, and circle graphs. They will also learn how to read a coordinate grid. There will be a fact test on Friday. The students should be studying their facts.
English We will continue to work with verbs this week. The students will choose correct present tense verbs for singular and plural subjects. They will also form present and past tense verbs.
Science - We will begin an Electricity unit this week. The essential question is What is electricity? The students will demonstrate how to construct a simple electrical circuit.
Social Studies This week in social studies the students will explain why the Midwest is an important agricultural region. They will identify the rainfall in the Midwest and explain how it affects the growth of crops.
Friday, January 28, 2011
Thursday, January 20, 2011
News from Mrs. Cavoto's Room January 24-28th
Things to Remember:
Tuesday,January 25 - District Spelling B at 10:00
Monday, February 14 - Valentine's Day Party will begin at 1:30. Students may bring in valentines, but they should be sure to bring for everyone in the class.
Monday, February 21 - No school - President's Day
Math - The students will use line plots to create data. They will use data to create tally charts and line plots. We will have a test covering the skills in chapter 7 on Friday of this week.
Please help your child study by using the reviews in the chapter. They should bring their book home to use throughout the week.
Spelling - The pattern to study is the vowel consonant consonat vowel pattern. Workbook pages 59-61 or 3 activities for those who passed out of the pretest will be assigned for the week and due on Friday. There will be a test on Friday.
Reading - The reading skill that we will work on this week is the identification of characters, setting, and plot. Students will fill out story structure maps as they read fiction to help them organize their thoughts and identify the main characters, setting, and plot.
English - This week in English we will begin a unit on verbs. The students will identify and use action verbs in sentences. They will identify the main verb and helping verb in a sentence.
Science - The students will learn about the muscular system this week and understand the work that muscles do. They will learn about three types of muscles and their jobs. There will be a test covering The Human Body on Thursday of this week- Chapter 4.
The students should study:
All vocabulary
All sheets in their binders
All main idea concepts in the text.
Understand the different kinds of joints in your body
Understand the three kinds of muscles and their jobs
Understand how muscles move
Understand the steps of the circulatory and digestive systems
Be able to explain the flow of blood and how it moves from heart to lungs- know the role of the arteries, capillaries and veins. Use diagram on page 174 to help.
Social Studies This week in social studies the students will read and interpret information from line graphs. They will learn about The Badlands of South Dakota and how they were formed. They will describe the climate and landscape of the Badlands 67 million years ago and understand how the climate has changed.
Tuesday,January 25 - District Spelling B at 10:00
Monday, February 14 - Valentine's Day Party will begin at 1:30. Students may bring in valentines, but they should be sure to bring for everyone in the class.
Monday, February 21 - No school - President's Day
Math - The students will use line plots to create data. They will use data to create tally charts and line plots. We will have a test covering the skills in chapter 7 on Friday of this week.
Please help your child study by using the reviews in the chapter. They should bring their book home to use throughout the week.
Spelling - The pattern to study is the vowel consonant consonat vowel pattern. Workbook pages 59-61 or 3 activities for those who passed out of the pretest will be assigned for the week and due on Friday. There will be a test on Friday.
Reading - The reading skill that we will work on this week is the identification of characters, setting, and plot. Students will fill out story structure maps as they read fiction to help them organize their thoughts and identify the main characters, setting, and plot.
English - This week in English we will begin a unit on verbs. The students will identify and use action verbs in sentences. They will identify the main verb and helping verb in a sentence.
Science - The students will learn about the muscular system this week and understand the work that muscles do. They will learn about three types of muscles and their jobs. There will be a test covering The Human Body on Thursday of this week- Chapter 4.
The students should study:
All vocabulary
All sheets in their binders
All main idea concepts in the text.
Understand the different kinds of joints in your body
Understand the three kinds of muscles and their jobs
Understand how muscles move
Understand the steps of the circulatory and digestive systems
Be able to explain the flow of blood and how it moves from heart to lungs- know the role of the arteries, capillaries and veins. Use diagram on page 174 to help.
Social Studies This week in social studies the students will read and interpret information from line graphs. They will learn about The Badlands of South Dakota and how they were formed. They will describe the climate and landscape of the Badlands 67 million years ago and understand how the climate has changed.
Friday, January 14, 2011
News from Mrs. Cavoto's Room Jan. 16-21
Things to Remember:
Monday, January 16 - No School Marting Luther King Jr. Day
Tuesday, January 17th - PTO Dine Out Fundraiser at Papa Passero's
Thanks to Mrs. Lupie and Mrs. Daly for chaperoning our field trip to Argonne. The field trip was a great success and the people at Argonne said that we were the best behaved school they have ever had there.
Congratulations to our classroom spelling B winners -Winner David Peter and Runner-up Sarah Schehovic. Our grade level spelling B will be on the afternoon of January 18th.
Math - In math this week the students will learn how to organize data using the mean, median, and mode. They will also use line plots to organize information.
**Please continue to practice math facts. We will have a fact quiz on Friday of this week.
Spelling- This week we will be working with words that have the final j sounds and s sounds. There will be a test on Friday.Workbook pages 44-46 / three activities for the kids who tested out of the list of words are due on Friday.
Reading The comprehension skill that we will be focusing on this week is drawing conclusions. Good readers use details in a story to draw conclusions about characters and events. Students may use graphic organizers to gather details from a story to draw conclusions. They will learn that it is possible to draw more than one conclusion from the same details.
English - There will be a test on Wednesday covering adjectives this week. That is unit 4 in our textbook. The students will bring homework home that will help them to practice using adjectives correctly. There are review sections at the end of the chapter that they can use for extra practice.
Science - In science this week the students will study how their body thinks and moves. They will describe the jobs of the nervous, muscular, and skeletal systems. They will also describe how the muscular and skeletal systems work together to move the body. A test is planned for Thursday, January 27 covering chapter 4 The Human Body.
Social Studies- This week the students will review how the Great Lakes were formed. They will explain why the flow of the Chicago River was changed and the advantages of shipping by water.
Monday, January 16 - No School Marting Luther King Jr. Day
Tuesday, January 17th - PTO Dine Out Fundraiser at Papa Passero's
Thanks to Mrs. Lupie and Mrs. Daly for chaperoning our field trip to Argonne. The field trip was a great success and the people at Argonne said that we were the best behaved school they have ever had there.
Congratulations to our classroom spelling B winners -Winner David Peter and Runner-up Sarah Schehovic. Our grade level spelling B will be on the afternoon of January 18th.
Math - In math this week the students will learn how to organize data using the mean, median, and mode. They will also use line plots to organize information.
**Please continue to practice math facts. We will have a fact quiz on Friday of this week.
Spelling- This week we will be working with words that have the final j sounds and s sounds. There will be a test on Friday.Workbook pages 44-46 / three activities for the kids who tested out of the list of words are due on Friday.
Reading The comprehension skill that we will be focusing on this week is drawing conclusions. Good readers use details in a story to draw conclusions about characters and events. Students may use graphic organizers to gather details from a story to draw conclusions. They will learn that it is possible to draw more than one conclusion from the same details.
English - There will be a test on Wednesday covering adjectives this week. That is unit 4 in our textbook. The students will bring homework home that will help them to practice using adjectives correctly. There are review sections at the end of the chapter that they can use for extra practice.
Science - In science this week the students will study how their body thinks and moves. They will describe the jobs of the nervous, muscular, and skeletal systems. They will also describe how the muscular and skeletal systems work together to move the body. A test is planned for Thursday, January 27 covering chapter 4 The Human Body.
Social Studies- This week the students will review how the Great Lakes were formed. They will explain why the flow of the Chicago River was changed and the advantages of shipping by water.
Friday, January 7, 2011
News from Mrs. Cavoto's Room Jan. 10-14th
Things to Remember:
Monday, Jan.10- Reading MAPs testing on Monday (homeroom students)
Tuesday, Jan.11- Field Trip to Argonne Labs on Tuesday, 9:30-1:30. Bring brown bag Sack lunch, Wear long pants - no skirts or shorts please
Wednesday, Jan. 12 - Dan Kirk Juggler Assembly .
Thursday, Jan. 13 - Math MAPs testing on Thursday (homeroom students)
Monday, Jan. 17 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day No School
Please don't forget to send in permission slips for our field trip to Argonne on Tuesday. All students need to be sure to wear pants that day and bring a brown bag lunch.
Spelling B There will be a practice, in class spelling B on Thursday, Jan.12 of this week. There will be another spelling B on Friday, Jan. 14th, where a winner and runner up will be chosen to participate in the whole grade spelling B which will be on Wednesday, January 19. The students should have the spelling lists in their binders.
Spelling- This week the students will work with words that end in y and have the long e sound. Workbook pages 29-31/or activities are due on Friday. Test Friday.
Math - This week in math we will work on new skills to help them collect and organize data. They will learn to use a frequency table and interpret and construct venn diagrams to sort, describe, and classify data. They will also learn to find the mean, median, and mode of a set of data. The students should keep practicing their multiplication facts. I will be testing them periodically. Those who know their multiplication facts are moving on to division facts.
Reading - This week the children will work on identifying the problem and solution of a story as they are reading. Most stories involve a problem for the characters to solve. The solution to the problem may come after others have been tried.
**Mrs. Cavoto's class in reading will continue to read Because of Winn Dixie. There will be an open book quiz over chapter 1-10 on Friday of this week. A list of vocabulary words to be studied will go home on Monday.
English - We will continue our study of adjectives this week. The students will add er to adjectives to compare two things and est to compare more than two things. They will also compare using more, most, good, and bad. There will be a test on Wednesday, January 19th covering chapter 4 adjectives.
Science - The students will understand the job of the respiratory and circulatory systems. You may want to ask them later in the week if they can tell you: What causes movement of the chest when a person moves? (movement of the diaphragm and movement of the ribs) What does the diaphragm do? ( It allows air to enter the body and then leave it.) What component of air is needed by all of the body's cells? (oxygen) Which blood vessels carry blood away from the heart? (arteries) Which kind of blood vessels carry blood back to the heart? veins
Social Studies We will begin our tour of the Midwest Region this week. The students will fill in a map of all the states in the region. They will have an assignment to color and label a map of the Midwest Region. It will be due on Wednesday of next week. There will be a map quiz on Thursday. They will have to put the states and bodies of water shown on their sheet correctly on a map. They will be given extra points for knowing the capitals.
Monday, Jan.10- Reading MAPs testing on Monday (homeroom students)
Tuesday, Jan.11- Field Trip to Argonne Labs on Tuesday, 9:30-1:30. Bring brown bag Sack lunch, Wear long pants - no skirts or shorts please
Wednesday, Jan. 12 - Dan Kirk Juggler Assembly .
Thursday, Jan. 13 - Math MAPs testing on Thursday (homeroom students)
Monday, Jan. 17 - Martin Luther King Jr. Day No School
Please don't forget to send in permission slips for our field trip to Argonne on Tuesday. All students need to be sure to wear pants that day and bring a brown bag lunch.
Spelling B There will be a practice, in class spelling B on Thursday, Jan.12 of this week. There will be another spelling B on Friday, Jan. 14th, where a winner and runner up will be chosen to participate in the whole grade spelling B which will be on Wednesday, January 19. The students should have the spelling lists in their binders.
Spelling- This week the students will work with words that end in y and have the long e sound. Workbook pages 29-31/or activities are due on Friday. Test Friday.
Math - This week in math we will work on new skills to help them collect and organize data. They will learn to use a frequency table and interpret and construct venn diagrams to sort, describe, and classify data. They will also learn to find the mean, median, and mode of a set of data. The students should keep practicing their multiplication facts. I will be testing them periodically. Those who know their multiplication facts are moving on to division facts.
Reading - This week the children will work on identifying the problem and solution of a story as they are reading. Most stories involve a problem for the characters to solve. The solution to the problem may come after others have been tried.
**Mrs. Cavoto's class in reading will continue to read Because of Winn Dixie. There will be an open book quiz over chapter 1-10 on Friday of this week. A list of vocabulary words to be studied will go home on Monday.
English - We will continue our study of adjectives this week. The students will add er to adjectives to compare two things and est to compare more than two things. They will also compare using more, most, good, and bad. There will be a test on Wednesday, January 19th covering chapter 4 adjectives.
Science - The students will understand the job of the respiratory and circulatory systems. You may want to ask them later in the week if they can tell you: What causes movement of the chest when a person moves? (movement of the diaphragm and movement of the ribs) What does the diaphragm do? ( It allows air to enter the body and then leave it.) What component of air is needed by all of the body's cells? (oxygen) Which blood vessels carry blood away from the heart? (arteries) Which kind of blood vessels carry blood back to the heart? veins
Social Studies We will begin our tour of the Midwest Region this week. The students will fill in a map of all the states in the region. They will have an assignment to color and label a map of the Midwest Region. It will be due on Wednesday of next week. There will be a map quiz on Thursday. They will have to put the states and bodies of water shown on their sheet correctly on a map. They will be given extra points for knowing the capitals.
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