December 6th to December 10th
Thank you so much for coming to conferences! I enjoyed meeting with all of you!
Please send an empty Lay's or Pringles cylinder can with your child by Thursday, December 9th. We will be making a constellation viewer. Thank you for your help!
The students of Project Challenge grades 3-5 are participating in a Lion's Club Holiday Drive. We are looking for donations such as new toys, new games, toiletries, and food for the needy families in the Darien area. If you wish to participate you will need to bring the donations in by December 13. Remember that some of these families live right here in Darien. So let's help these families have a happy holiday season.
PLEASE DONATE!
Paper Recycling Fundraiser Comes to Prairieview: We are happy to announce we can now raise money for our district by recycling paper! You can help us out, too! Please collect any paper you are going to throw away or recycle (office and school paper, newspaper, magazines and catalogs, and construction paper---no cardboard!) and send it in with your child to school or drop it off at the green and yellow Paper Retriever bin in the Lakeview parking lot (near the fence by the Prairieview playground). The bin is available for drop offs 24/7. The more paper we recycle, the more money we can make! Do something good for our schools AND the environment! Thank you!
The Fifteenth Week of 2010 at School:
Science: We will continue the study of space. Students will continue to learn about the planets and make a planet book.
Social Studies: We begin studying local government in chapter 12 of the social studies textbook.
Math: This week we will continue chapter 5. Students will learn about time. Students will study a.m. and p.m. They will also learn about elapsed time. In addition, they will study calendars. Look for a study guide to come home. Students will be tested on chapter 5 on Friday, December 10th. This week students will study multiplying by 4. There will be a test on "*4" on Friday, December 10th. Students will receive two and a half minutes to complete 26 multiplication by 4 questions. Practice sheets will be coming home throughout the week.
Spelling: We are on list 10: words with the vowel sound in "join". A pretest will be on Monday. Homework will be given Monday and due Friday. The final test will be on Friday.
Social Studies: We begin studying local government in chapter 12 of the social studies textbook.
Math: This week we will continue chapter 5. Students will learn about time. Students will study a.m. and p.m. They will also learn about elapsed time. In addition, they will study calendars. Look for a study guide to come home. Students will be tested on chapter 5 on Friday, December 10th. This week students will study multiplying by 4. There will be a test on "*4" on Friday, December 10th. Students will receive two and a half minutes to complete 26 multiplication by 4 questions. Practice sheets will be coming home throughout the week.
Spelling: We are on list 10: words with the vowel sound in "join". A pretest will be on Monday. Homework will be given Monday and due Friday. The final test will be on Friday.
Reading: We will have a vocabulary quiz on The Keeping Quilt word list on Tuesday, December 7th. We will also begin a new strategy focus as we learn about evaluating text and visualizing as we read. We will use the story Dogzilla as well as other novels and text as we apply these skills. We will also work on strategies from previous weeks.
English: We will continue the study of narratives. Students will write their own narrative about their favorite vacation or their favorite place to visit.
Things to Remember:
Tuesday 12/7: There will be a vocabulary quiz.
Friday 12/10: There will be a chapter 5 math test and a multiplication by 4 test.
Contact Information:
E-Mail address: mpellin@ccsd66.org
Voice mail: (630)783-5065
