Tuesday, November 20, 2018

Mrs. Burland's Bulletin
November 26th- November 30th
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We will not have school on Wednesday, November 21stThursday, November 22nd, and Friday, November 23rd due to Thanksgiving! I hope you have a wonderful Thanksgiving!

The beginning of trimester 2 began this past Monday, November 19th. Grades are finalized and an email will go out soon. 


The class had so much fun on our Downers Grove field trip! In the above pictures, the class is standing front of Pierce Downers's house and the Blogdett's house/Downers Grove Museum! Thank you to our volunteers for helping on the field trip!

The Upcoming Week at School:
Social Science:  We will continue our unit on balancing forces.  Students will complete experiments and annotate a book on forces.  

Math:  We will finish unit 3, module 1 on mixed numbers and equivalent fractions.  Then we will begin unit 3, module 2 on comparing, composing, and decomposing fractions and mixed numbers. Students will complete a checkpoint on equivalent fractions. Students will also take a multiplication by 12 test on Thursday, November 29th.

Spelling: Students will receive a new spelling list and should complete 3 activities from their homework sheet and turn them in on Friday, December 7th.  Please initial next to the activity name so that I know the activity was completed if needed.  The spelling test will also be on Friday, December 7th. 


ELA:  We will work on our fluency while performing reader's theater on various myths! I will take video of the students' final products and post them on Seesaw! We will also continue our study of nouns.


Students should continue reading 20 min. each night and fill out their November reading logs. They will be due on Monday, December 3rd

Things to Remember:

Wednesday 11/21: No School
Thursday 11/22: Happy Thanksgiving!
Friday 11/23: No School

Thursday 11/29: There will be a multiplication by 12 test.

Monday 12/3: The November Reading Log is due. 
Friday 12/7: The 3 spelling activities are due and there will be a spelling test.