January 14-18

“Spakausky’s Scoop”
January 14-18

Happy New Year!
Welcome 2008

REMINDER from the office:
FORGOTTEN LUNCHES: Starting in January, 2008 students who do not have a lunch ticket or money will be able to borrow from the office providing there is not an outstanding balance due for lunch tickets.
If your child forgets his/her hot lunch ticket or has used them all, he/she may bring $2.25 to school and purchase a ticket that day from the office staff.
Students must have exact change to purchase a ticket; no change will be given. If a child has no lunch, no money and the parent cannot be contacted, he/she may borrow from school office, but only twice per trimester.
Students will no longer be able to borrow lunch tickets from the lunchroom staff.

January Spirit Days
January 11-Respect for CC-wear YELLOW

Goody Basket-
Thanks to:
For donating to the basket this week!

Student of the Week
Hannah

English
Unit 6 – This unit is on pronouns. Ask your child what a pronoun is. Have them give you a sentence using a pronoun.

Spelling
Lesson 15 is next!

Social Studies
Chapter 3 is next. There are 4 lessons in this chapter.
-Lesson 1 is about people moving to different communities for opportunities.
-Lesson 2 is about people learning new customs.
-Lesson 3 is about where people move from.
- Lesson 4 is about people beginning a new life in the United States.
After each lesson, we will do a workbook page, have discussions, do an activity, hear the lesson on CD, reread the lesson for homework and then take a quiz on the lesson.

Science
We will be staring a unit on matter next. What is made of solids, liquids and gases?

Independent Reading Program
Read and record in December!!!

The
Thanks to the students who participated last month. We will have reading party on Friday, 1/10 to celebrate.
Congrats to:
-Paul -TJ -Mary
-Karina -Madison -Adam
-James -Emma -Matthew
-Ryan S. -Lauren -Caitlin
-Ryan R. -Emily -Isa
-Anita -Kelsey -Daniel
-Greg
Keep up the great work!

Don't forget about the Great America 600 minute reading!!! Due 2/22!

Spakausky's Math Update-
Chapter 4 is on Time and Measurement. We will be focusing on telling time to the minute and elapsed time.

Mad Minute Schedule:
Done 0's and 1's, 2's, 5's
Week of:
Jan. 14- multiplication 10's
Jan. 21-multiplication 11's
Jan. 28-multiplication 3's

Reading
We will be starting two different novels. Some students will be reading Top Secret and some will be reading How To Be Cool in Third Grade. Ask your child what they will be reading. Both books will be available to all students to read during silent reading.

Joke of the week:
Q: Why did the man freeze his money?
A: He wanted cold, hard cash.

Website of the week:
Math-Rainforest Maths-
www.rainforestmaths.com

Mrs. T. Spakausky