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September 3rd - September 7th

Have a great Labor Day!  There will be no school on Monday, September 3rd!

I really enjoyed seeing everyone at Curriculum Night!  Thank you so much for coming!

A few reminders:  Please sign your child's planner daily.

Please label all envelopes sent in with your child's name, their grade, what is in the envelope, and my name.

Our class will be taking the math MAP test on Wednesday, September 5th.  Please make sure your child gets enough sleep before the test!

Fridays:  Students are able to bring in an item or picture to share with the class.  This is optional.

The Second Week of 2012 at School:

Science: We will begin chapter 9 on weather at the end of the week.  

Math:  I really enjoyed meeting my math class today!  I am looking forward to a great year!  We will study place value and problem solving in chapter 1.  There will be a pretest on Monday.  On Friday, September 14th students will be tested on their basic math addition facts. Students will need to complete 40 addition problems (adding numbers ranging from 1 to 10) in 2 minutes.  Students should be reviewing the addition math facts before the test. 

Social Studies: We will study directions. Students will learn about cardinal and intermediate directions.  A study guide went home today (Friday).  A directions quiz will be on Thursday, September 6th.  There will be a fun scavenger hunt to practice these skills on Wednesday.

Spelling: This week, we will be taking a pretest on Lesson 2 on Tuesday.  The cursive worksheet is for homework on Tuesday.  On Wednesday, depending on what group your child is in (challenge or non-challenge) the homework will either be 1 challenge activity or ABC order.  The final test is on Friday.  

Reading: This week we will start introducing the reading strategies that we will be utilizing throughout the rest of the year using picture books. The strategies are predicting, inferencing, visualizing, monitoring/clarifying, phonics/decoding, summarizing (fiction and non-fiction), questioning, connecting, and evaluating.  Students should also be reading 20 minutes a night.  I passed out the September reading calendar.  Please initial the days your child has read 20 minutes.  Students should have 20 days initialed by the end of each month.    

English: We will begin to study sentences. Students will be able to tell the differences between statements, questions, commands, and exclamation sentences. We will also be working on Daily Oral Language. Each day students will correct sentences from the board. This week students will be correcting end marks and capitalizing proper nouns.

Things to Remember:

Monday 9/3: It is Labor Day!  There is no school!
Wednesday 9/5:  We will take the reading MAP test.
Thursday 9/6:  There will be a direction quiz.
Friday 9/7: There will be a Spelling "list 2" test.

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

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I really enjoyed meeting everyone at Open House!  I am looking forward to seeing each of you at Curriculum Night at 6:30 pm on Wednesday, August 29th. At Curriculum Night you will have the chance to sign up for conferences and will be given information about the school year.

Please send your child to school with one of their T-shirts (it won't be altered in any way) and a hanger by Tuesday, August 28th. The shirts and hangers will be returned by Thursday.  We will be using it for a fun school project!

Have a great weekend!