Miss Pellin's Post
November 23rd- November 28th

Have a Happy Thanksgiving! There will be no school from Wednesday, November 26th until Sunday, November 30th. Thank-you to all the parent volunteers who made our Downers Grove field trip lots of fun!

A Special Holiday Project!

Each year Prairieview runs a service project around the holidays. Our efforts will benefit two organizations: a cancer family and a family shelter. Each classroom at Prairieview has a family or an individual that is in need at this time. In addition to the cancer families, we will also be making cash donations and gift donations to the family shelter, a shelter for domestic abuse. This shelter is in the local area. This year our class has a very special family.

Our family includes:

~Alicia Maddox(cancer patient) -20 years old (Mom)

~Alanna - 1 year old (daughter)

Sadly, Alicia has cancer. Not only does this family struggle with the stress of treatments and illness, but they are less fortunate than us financially, too. In order to make this a special holiday, we have “adopted” them. If you could send in a NEW, not used, present for one or more of the family members that would be greatly appreciated.

Directions for our class family gifts:

*Please wrap the gifts if they are not food items.

*LABEL the item with what it is with a post it note.

*Label who it is for.

Some ideas for NEW (not used) gifts include, but are not limited to:

Alicia: (age 20) Bath and body, perfume, jewelry, candles, kitchen accessories, picture frames/albums, gift certificates, gift baskets, slippers, etc.

Daughter: (age 1) Baby Clothes, stuffed animals, toys, etc.

Gift certificates to consider:
Jewel, Best Buy, Kohl’s, Wal-Mart, Target, Toys R Us, K-Mart, Sears, JC Penney’s, Carson Pierre Scott, Chili’s, TGIFridays, Subway, McDonalds, Burger King, ETC.

Gifts for the Family Shelter:
We are accepting Cash or checks (payable to Family Shelter Service) gift cards in any denomination. NEW toys, games, books, puzzles, sports equipment, jewelry/other accessories, warm gloves and hats. Unlike the gifts for our family, these gifts should NOT be wrapped.

***ALL DONATIONS NEED TO BE BROUGHT TO SCHOOL ON OR BEFORE WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10th!

The Fourteenth Week of 2008 at School:

Home Room
Science: We will do our first experiment this week. The experiment will focus on observation and how to conduct the key elements of an experiment. Last week students explored the new Science textbook online from the website http://www.thinkcentral.com/. In order to access the Science textbook at home go to the same website. The user name is your parent connect number. The password is ccsd66.

Social Studies: We will continue to study Chapter 3.

Language Arts
Spelling: There will be no spelling list due to the short week.

Reading: We will work Illinois Reading Workbook on the reading strategy of self-questioning.

English: We will study contractions.

Math: On Tuesday, November 25th there will be a Chapter 5 Math test. Students should complete the even numbered problems on pages 138 and 139 in their Math textbook to prepare for the test.

Things to Remember:

Tuesday 11/25: There will be a Math test.
Wednesday 11/25 - Friday 11/28: Have a happy Thanksgiving!
Monday 12/1: Yearbook orders are due.

Contact Information:
E-Mail address: mpellin@ccsd66.org
Voice mail: (630)783-5065