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

In the picture above the class is standing in front of Pierce Downers house!  Thank you to all the parents who were chaperones for the Downers Grove field trip!

Our class will go on a bowling field trip on Monday, December 15th. You can send your child with money if they would like to buy a snack at the bowling alley. Please send your child with a sack lunch on this day.

The Sixteenth Week of 2014 at School:

Science: We will focus on social studies this week.  

Social Studies:  We will study local government in chapter 12 and relate it to the Downers Grove government.  

We will start a new unit, holidays around the world.  In this unit, students will work in groups and be given a country.  They will be doing research on that country and then make a poster to present to the class.  They will get to learn about how other countries celebrate this holiday. 

Math:  We will continue the study of topic 5 on multiplication facts using patterns.  This week we will focus on the study of the factors 0, 1, and 10.  We will also study patterns for facts and problem solving. 

Students will also take a timed test on subtraction on Friday, December 12th.  They will need to complete 30 problems in 3 minutes.  They will take practice tests leading up to Friday, December 12th.

Spelling: This week in spelling we will work on List 13.  There will be a pretest on Monday, December 8th.  The final test will be on Friday, December 12th.

Reading:  There will be a Weekly Words Quiz on Friday, December 12th.   We will continue our new unit called Traditions.  We will also be reading a lot of nonfiction text and learn different nonfiction reading strategies.

English: We will continue the study of verbs in unit 3.

Things to Remember:

Friday 12/12: We will have a spelling test and a weekly words quiz.  There will be a subtraction timed test. 

Monday 12/15: We will go bowling.

Contact Information: 

E-Mail address: mpellin@ccsd66.org

Voice mail: (630)783-5065