Tuesday, February 25, 2014

Vote for the next I Survived book!

Hey 4th Grade!

Here is the link from Scholastic to vote for what you want the next I Survived book to be!

They all look so good!!

Click here to Vote

Monday, February 24, 2014

Week of February 24th

Good Afternoon!

Please get field trip permission slips in as soon as you can!  We will be letting chaperons know by Friday- thank you for offering to help us out!

This week in...

Reading:  Test Tuesday and the rest of the week we will be studying Fairy Tales- No vocab or test on Friday

Spelling: Lesson 25

Religion:  Finishing up chapter 6.  Open book test hopefully on Thursday

4th LA:  Diocesan assessments this week- all in class activities

5th LA:  Adjectives

4th SS: Continuing Midwest Region Tour.  Our letter and scrapbook pages should be assigned by the end of this week or early next week.  Due date will be sometime during the week of March 10th.

5th SS: Chapter 8 Lessons 2 and 3- Beginnings of the American Revolution

Thursday, February 20, 2014

Reading Test CHANGE

The reading test has been postponed until Tuesday the 25th.  We just needed a little more time with the shortened week and we will have our review day on Monday.  On Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday we will be looking at Fairy Tales and there will be no test on Friday.

The week of March 3rd should be back on track and we will read Juan Verdades

Thank you!

Wednesday, February 19, 2014

Badminton Gym Test

Good Morning!

There will be a badminton gym test on Monday, February 24th.  The students received a study guide already that has the 10 badminton rules on it.  It was three hole punched so it should be in their binders.

Thank you!

Sunday, February 16, 2014

Week of February 17th

Happy President's Day!

The 4th graders discussed the importance and Presidents Day on Friday.  We will also be discussing the importance of Black History Month throughout the rest of February.

We will also continue keeping track of Olympic Medals, but will return back to our region tour for the 4th graders and US History for the 5th graders.  We had a lot of fun discussing the history of the Olympics!

Also please turn your permission slips in for our field trip as soon as you can- we are very excited to go to the Chicago History Museum.  It fits in so well with our region tour.  Right now we will be touring the Midwest and take a long stop in Illinois to learn all about our state.  The Chicago History Museum will expand on our Illinois knowledge!

Also thank you for all the thoughtful notes, flowers, and Valentine Day treats!  We felt very special!

This week in...

Reading: Hewitt Anderson's Great Big Life.  One of our favorites!  Our skill will be finding the theme in a story and the test will be on Friday

Spelling: Lesson 24- review lesson. Test and workbook both due on Friday

Religion: Chapter 6

4th LA: Adjective Unit

5th LA: Adjective Unit

4th SS:  We will begin our region tour.  It should take us about 10-12 school days to complete.  We will have our Midwest Letter and Scrapbook pages due a week after we finish our tour.

5th SS:  Beginning Chapter 8- the Road to War!  The 5th grade research projects were fantastic!  I saw A LOT of effort and was very pleased!

Monday, February 10, 2014

Week of February 10th

Good Evening!

This week in 4th grade we will be participating in our empathy lessons provided by Mrs. Waterman of the Downers Grove Township.  Mrs. Waterman is a life-skills teacher and presents some lessons on how to be a good friend, practicing empathy, walking in another person's shoes, and what is bullying.  She does an amazing job and the students always love what they have learned. She will come in every day this week except for Friday.

Speaking of Friday... Valentine's Day!  The students in 4th grade may bring in valentines or treats for the class.  Of course if they are going to bring something please make sure that each person in their class gets one.  We currently have 22 students in Mrs. Carbone's room and 22 students in Miss Winter's room.

We also have Olympic Fever!  We are keeping track of the previous day's events and results- we know not to look ahead at the results- Russia is almost a half a day ahead of us!  Most events are complete while we are in school so we have decided as a class not to spoil anything for others :)  We highly suggest downloading the free NBC Sochi Olympics App!



This week in...

Reading:  Just Like Me.  Lesson test on Friday

Spelling:  Lesson 23, test Friday

Religion: Chapter 6- choices and consequences

4th LA: Starting the Adjective Unit

5th LA: Starting the Adjective Unit

4th SS:  Olympics! We will learn about the history of the games and complete some in class activities

5th SS:  Also Olympics and Chapter 7 Research Project is due on Friday

 Have a great week!

Friday, February 7, 2014

Art Awareness

Today we learned about Frank Lloyd Wright and his unique style of designing architecture.  There is a fun website that the students can go to and design their own:

www.architectstudio3d.org 

It is also posted under class websites!

Have a great weekend :)

Monday, February 3, 2014

Week of February 3rd

Good Morning!

This week in....


Reading:  We will read the story, So You Want to be an Inventor.  It is a narrative nonfiction and we will work on distinguishing fact and opinion in text

Spelling:  Lesson 22, Test Friday

Religion:  We will finish up Chapter 5

4th LA: Continue working on subject verb agreement

5th LA: Final Copy of President report will be due next Monday

4th SS:  We will finish Chapter 8 this week and will have a test on Thursday.  On Friday we will start our journey learning about the Olympics!

5th SS:  We will finish the French and Indian War by Wednesday.  Wednesday will be our review day and we will have a Chapter 7 Test on Thursday and Friday- No vocabulary this chapter.