Miss Pellin's Post
December 15th- December 19th

This is the last week before Winter Break! Everyone is excited, but we still have a few things to work on this week. Thank you to everyone who contributed to our cancer family project. Everyone was extremely generous! Your kindness is greatly appreciated!

On Monday, December 15th the students will be going on a bowling field trip. If students would like to buy snacks at the bowling alley, please send some money with them. Also, we will be seeing The Grinch at Tivoli Theater on Friday, December 19th. Please make sure that permission slips are turned in.

Ms. Stainman needs parent volunteers to help tie roller skates during PE classes for third grade. She needs help the week of January 8-January 22. You can come as many or as few of times as you want and can go into any other class or your child's own. We have gym from 11:05-11:30 everyday. You can email her at tstainman@ccsd66.org if you are interested. Thanks for your help.

The Sixteenth Week of 2008 at School:

Home Room
Science: We will begin to study lesson 3, the scientific method, in our introductory Science unit.

Social Studies: We will continue to study culture and we will begin to study immigration in chapter 3. There will be a chapter 3 test on Thursday, December 18th. Culture Day will be Thursday, January 8th and Friday, January 9th. Everyone was assigned a day. Each student should be prepared to share with the class something about his or her cultural heritage. You will find a packet on what to do in each students binder this week.

Language Arts
Spelling: There will be no Spelling this week due to the field trips.

Reading: We will study the concept of "making connections." We will work in our ISAT Reading book on this strategy. We will also work on writing an extended response on a question from the story The Mysterious Giant of Barletta.

English: We will finish our friendly letters to our favorite celebrity. The letters will be due on Tuesday, December 16th. Please use the friendly letter rubric in your child's binder as a guide for the letter as you help your child at home. I will use this rubric to grade the letters. We will have a test on letter parts and punctuation on Tuesday, December 16th.

Math: We will begin multiplication "x5" and "x10." There will be a mad minute "x5" and "x10" quiz on Thursday, December 18th. Please continue to use flash cards at home to help prepare your child for these multiplication quizzes. There will be a test on chapter 6 on Wednesday, December 17th. We will be working on Math book review pages in order to study for the test on Tuesday, December 18th.

Things to Remember:
Monday 12/15: We will have a bowling field trip.

Tuesday 12/16: Friendly letters are due. There will be a letter parts test.

Wednesday 12/17: There will be a Math Chapter 6 test.

Thursday 12/18: There will be two mad minutes quizzes. There will be a Social Studies Chapter 3 Test.

Friday 12/19: We will go to see The Grinch at the Tivoli Theater.

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

Miss Pellin's Post
December 8th- December 12th

It was great to see all of my Language Art's parents this past week! I enjoyed talking to each of you!

On Wednesday, December 10th our holiday project will come to an end. So far we do not have any gifts. It would be great if we can help our family out in their time of need!

On Monday, December 15th the students will be going on a bowling field trip. Also, we will be seeing The Grinch at Tivoli Theater on Friday, December 19th. Please make sure that permission slips are turned in.

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 Fifteenth Week of 2008 at School:
Home Room
Science: This week we will study the skills needed for inquiry such as infering and formulating. Students can use their new Science textbook online from the website http://www.thinkcentral.com/ to help understand the subject. 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 culture and we will begin to study immigration in chapter 3. There will be a chapter 3 test on Thursday, December 18th. The study guide will be passed out Wednesday, December 10th. Culture Day will be Thursday, January 8th. Each student should be prepared to share with the class something about his or her cultural heritage. You will find a packet on what to do in each students binder this week.

Language Arts
Spelling: There will be a Spelling "List 14" test on Friday, December 12th.

Reading: We will study the concept of "making connections." The three types of connections that we will be making are text to text, text to world, and text to self. In order to implement this strategy we will read the story The Mysterious Giant of Barletta. There will be a vocabulary quiz on words from this story on Friday, December 12th.

English: We will continue to study letter writing. Students will edit friendly letters helping them understand the format and punctuation of letters.

Math: We will begin multiplication "x4." There will be a mad minute "x6" quiz on Friday, December 12th. We will continue to study different types of graphs. Students have already collected data from other students and now they will construct their bar graphs to display the results. Look for a date for a test on chapter 6 in the week of December 15th in your child's assignment notebook sometime this week.

Things to Remember:
Wednesday 12/10: Gifts for our family service project are due.

Friday 12/12: There will be a mad minutes quiz. There will be a Spelling test. There will be a vocabulary test.

Monday 12/15: There will be a bowling field trip.

Thursday 12/18: There will be a chapter 3 Social Studies test.

Friday 12/19: We will go to see The Grinch at the Tivoli Theater.

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