November 19-23

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Thanksgiving Feasting
When the Halloween pumpkins are gone,
And the leaves have all fallen to ground, When the air has turned windy and cold, Then Thanksgiving will soon be around.
Thoughts of loved ones all feasting together,
Pleasant pictures from past times appear To dwell in each heart and each mind-- Then Thanksgiving is finally here, The kitchen has scrumptious aromas, The dining room looks oh, so fine, Decorations with pilgrims and turkeys, And now we are ready to dine! First the napkins are placed on our laps; Now the prayer for the meal to be blessed,
Then we stuff the good food in our tummies,
And we hope for it all to digest!

Enjoy our turkey in disguise art work and some owl

pellet dissection!

Tues., 11/20-Robert Crown Field Trip-9:00-11:00.  Bring a SACK LUNCH for today!
Wed., Thurs., Fri., 11/21-11/23-Thanksgiving Break! No School, Gobble, Gobble!
Mon., 11/26-2nd Qrt. Book Project book should be finished by today!
Wed., 11/28-"Rockin' Science" Assembly 9:00
Fri., 11/30-One Page TYPED summary of your book is due!
Mon., 12/17-2nd Qrt. Book Project comic or commercial is due today!
Tues., 12/18-2nd Qrt. Book Project Presentations!

Good Basket donations----Thanks to ____________ for donating this week. (items or monetary donations excepted)

Coming up this week:

Spelling: Lesson 11 the week after Thanksgiving!
Monday, November 26th-Pretest
Thursday, November 29-Homework due
Friday, November 30-Lesson 11 Test

English: Chapter 5-Writing (6 traits) and Nouns
We will be studying:
Writing next week and then onto nouns!

Reading: Novels---Character Traits, Summarizing, Drawing Conclusions
We will be starting novels, after reviewing the above skills.  Some students will be startingThe Kid in the Red Jacket and some will be reading Touching Spirit Bear.  You will see some "X"s in the "gradebook" computer and that will just mean that your child's grade isn't in the book category.  Each book group will get their own grades.

Social Studies: Chapter 5-"The Struggle to Found Colonies"

We will learn about :

Lesson 1-"Hard Times in Virginia"-Jamestown and how colonies survived

Lesson 2-"New European Colonies"-Searching for the Northwest Passage

Lesson 3-"The First Colonies"-New England Colonies

Lesson 4-"The 13 Colonies"-William Penn and Roger Williams

Science: Chapter 6-"Ecosystems and Change"
We will learn:
Lesson 1-How Do Organisms Compete and Survive in an Ecosystem?
Lesson 2:How Do Ecosystems Change Over Time?
Lesson 3:How Do People Affect Ecosystems?

Mrs. Spakausky's Math Class: Unit on Data

We will :

Learn about mean, median, mode and range.

Test will be on Tuesday, November 20th!