Week of December 16th

Good Afternoon!

Welcome to our very busy last week of school before break!  We have some different schedules going on this week due to our Christmas Program. 

We will have Lesson 18 (review lesson) due on Thursday.  No spelling test on Friday and no extra credit rewrites this week.

In reading we will continue to work on our summaries

In Social Studies we have almost finished up our Southeast tour.  Today we learned about Walt Disney and discussed his Disney Empire.  Tomorrow we will look at his first cartoon and one of Miss Winter's favorite Christmas Disney Cartoon :)  We will also discuss our requirements for our Southeast Letters and Scrapbook pages tomorrow! (remember due January 10th)

In LA they will have a quiz on Tuesday over verbs, verb tense, and commas.

4th graders will have Science one more time this week:  Winter on Wednesday, Carbone on Thursday
4th graders will have Math one more time this week:  Carbone on Wednesday, Winter on Thursday

We look forward to seeing all of you this week at one of the Christmas Programs!!

Mrs. Carbone and Miss Winter

Social Studies- Monday

On Monday, December 16th we will be finishing our region tour of the Southeast.  Our last stop is Orlando, Florida and we will be learning about Disney World!  We will learn about Walt Disney, some early cartoons, and the amusement park.  The students may bring in a small, nonbreakable Disney item of their choice so we can bring Disney to Downers Grove.  The items will go home on Monday- none will be spending the night at school. 

After Monday, the Southeast Letter and scrapbook pages will be assigned and will be due on Friday, January 10th.  It is pretty much the same as the Northeast letter but they have 10 new places to talk about!  We might have some time to work on it during the school day next week but most of this letter will be done at home. 

Have a great weekend!

Week of December 9th

Good Morning- sorry we are a little late this week!

This week in...

Reading: Mountains by Seymour Simon.  We will NOT have a comprehension test on Friday over this story however we will have a vocabulary quiz on Friday over our vocab words.  On Thursday we will start our in-class research project over another one of Simon's books.  This will be completed next week as well.

Religion:  Nativity and Christmas

Spelling:  Lesson 17

4th LA:  Verbs

5th LA: Verbs

4th SS:  We will finish up our Southeast tour.  Next week we will begin working on our Southeast Letters.  Letters will be due after break, however if they get done by next Friday I would be happy to take them!

5th SS:  Chapter 6- we will not finish this before break!

Week of December 2nd

Good Morning!  We hope everyone had a nice Thanksgiving!  And Happy December- we made it, can you believe it?!?

We will be sending home a December Scholastic Book Order today, Tuesday.  It will be due in a week- December 10th.  They have great prices on books in case Santa wants to know.... :)  Remember you can also order online with our grade level code:  1FQVA

This week we have Reconciliation on Wednesday at 10:30.  We went over our examination of conscience sheets and the students should be thinking about that. 

We also have a band concert on Thursday.  All school is at 1:15 and the evening concert is at 6:30

And on Friday we have our first Christmas Show performance!  Some of the senior citizens will be coming to our school to hear our beautiful songs!

This week in....

Reading: Mimicry and Camouflage.  Test on Friday

Religion: Chapter 4

Spelling: Lesson 16

4th LA: Starting verbs

5th LA: Finishing up another animal report and then will begin verbs

4th SS: Southeast region tour- Jamestown, a coal mine in Appalachia, and Memphis, Tennessee blues and jazz music!

5th SS:  Test on Chapter 5 Thursday and Friday of this week- Vocabulary due Thursday!