April 5th to April 9th
Monday, March 29th is the beginning of Spring Break. School will resume on Monday, April 5th. Have a great holiday!! I look forward to hearing all about your vacations!
The Twelfth Week of 2010 at School:
Science: We will once again focus on Social Studies. Next week we will begin Science again.
Social Studies: We will continue to study Egypt. Students will learn more about King Tut. We will be reading the chapter book Tut's Mummy...Lost and Found. Students will also work on an Egypt mobile in class. They will need to bring a hanger to school. Look for an Egypt test coming up. It will be in the week of April 12th.
Spelling: We will work on Spelling "List #25". There will be a test on Friday, April 9th. This week the test will only be done in cursive.
Reading: This week we will focus on monitoring and questioning while studying biographies. We continue our biography scrapbook project. Students will present their biographies on Thursday, April 8th and Friday, April 9th. They will be assigned a day. When presenting students should dress up like and/or bring a prop that their biography person would have. For example, if the person they read about a person who plays football, they can bring in a football.
English: We will be starting unit 6 which focuses on pronouns.
Math: We will continue "Mad Minute" division. This week students will study division by 5's. There will be a test on division by 5's on Friday, April 9th. Students will receive two minutes to complete 20 division by 5 questions. The geometry project will be due on Tuesday, April 13th. This week we will finish studying graphs and begin chapter 6 on probability.
Things to Remember:
Friday 4/9: There will be a Spelling test. There will be a division test.
Contact Information:
E-Mail address: mpellin@ccsd66.org
Voice mail: (630)783-5065
