Spakausky's Scoop

Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Spakausky/Grabowski Gazette for Nov. 16-20

On Thursday, Lakeview came over to do

Character Counts skits. Enjoy some pics of this!

Student of the Week

Adrian

Quote of the week:

Limits exist only on conscious levels!

Website of the Week

Fun website, when you are bored!

http://www.pbskids.com/

Math-Ch. 5-Money and Time

What does your child know about money?

Does your child know how to tell time? Do they know what time it will be in 2 1/2 hours?

We will be studying time and money in math, so please practice at home.

In conjunction with chapter 5, we will start to learn our facts. Please drill and practice at home.

www. aplusmath.com

This is a good site for practice and worksheets.

English

Adverbs are next!

We will continue to study adjectives too.

FUN!

Writing

We will be studying point of view and writing.

We will start a descriptive story from the "Turkey's Point of View."

Spelling

L. 11 test and homework -due Th. 11/19/09.

Reading
We will be talking about author's purpose.

Book Reports-

The students will be getting information about their next book report on Monday. They should be looking for a mystery or realistic fiction book.

They will have to read the book, write a summary on notecards, complete a summary poster, and present.

Independent Reading Folders

Folders are due Tuesday, 12/1 and the

reading party will be Wednesday, 12/2.

Social Studies

We are studying modern day DG.

We will be working on a timeline and DG.

Science

The students did a great job on their Matter tests!

Keep it up!

Energy! Whatis it?

What do you know about it???

Have a Great weekend!

Mrs. Spakausky and Miss Grabowski

Friday, September 11, 2009

Oct. 5---Oct. 9--Spakausky/Grabowski Gazette

Johnny Appleseed Celebration!

We are silly in our apple glasses!!!

Thank you, Kirk, Max, Chris and Kaitlin, for donating erasers!

We are grateful!

READING Party

The reading folders are due Thursday, 10/1.

Reading party, in our class, is on Fri. 10/2.

Congrats to the following students who participated in the reading program for the month of September:

*Erin

*Brock

*Kirk

*Max

*Kaitlin

*Meghan

*Sam

*Kelly

*Robert

*Steven

*Lucy

*Sarah

*Michael

*Blake

*Adrian

*Brooke

*Kyle G.

*Adarsh

*Erin

Student of the Week:

ERIN

Quote of the week:

Walk with Love in your heart and you will never walk alone.

Website of the week:

Literature:
Book Adventures
Math Interactive Websites:

Rainforest Math: http://www.rainforestmaths.com/

Math-Ch. 3

We are on to addition.

Spelling

Lesson

Test on Thursday and lesson due Thursday,10/8.

English

Unit 3-Verbs

Verbs, verbs, Verbs - past, present and future.

Writing

We have been studying the 6 Traits of writing.

We will study the last week of IDEAS!

Topic: Keeping your Focus
You should have looked over the scores of their last 4 writing assignments, when the binders came home. The binders will come home every couple weeks.

Please review work, sign and return with a 2 days. Thanks!

Writing paragraph is due on Monday, 10/5.

Reading-Strategy-Predicting

Yunmi and Halmoni's Trip.

Book Report Alert

The students were assigned a book report project.

Please read over the book report project and develop a timeline that would work for you and your child.

ALL reports and posters are due on October 19th.

The students will share their poster with the class.

They may dress up as a character in the book, if they want or bring in prompts that support their book!

Have FUN!

Social Studies

Chapter 12-Government.

Then we will transition into our Downers Grove Unit!

Science

We are starting our chapter on Matter.

What is matter?

What are the 3 states of matter?

What is mass?

volume?
Hightouch-Hightech will be here on Oct. 29th, to do an in-class field trip on Matter-What fun!

Please send in $6.50, with child's name attached, asap-thanks!

Have a great weekend!

Mrs. Spakausky and Miss Grabowski

Thursday, September 10, 2009

Septermber 14-18-The Spakausky/Grabowski Gazette

Here we are in the computer lab typing our Dogzilla theme songs.

Let me know if you are not getting an e-mail each week, reminding you to check my blog. Math and Homeroom should be on the list. I will add you, if you are not!

Quote of the week: Share happiness, it's contagious!

Website of the week: Kid Friendly Search Engine

Interesting Facts: http://factmonster.com/

Student of the Week:

Kirk

Schedule:

Monday-put up pictures

Tuesday-present board to class

Wednesday-Read your favorite book or chapter to class (10 minutes)

Thursday-Bring a favorite show and tell item to share with class

Friday-Share a talent (optional)

Math-

Mrs. Spakausky and Miss Grabowski's math class ONLY-

We will take the Chapter 1 math test on Monday, 9/14!

We will begin chapter 2 on addition and rounding next week!

Spelling-

Lesson 3 is next week!

Book and assignments due Thursday!

Test on Thursday!

English-

Chapter 1-"What is a Sentence?"

Test tomorrow-Friday, 9/11!

Next week, we will start chapter 2 on Nouns!

Reading-

We have been working on visualization.

We will continue 10 True Animal Stories next week!

Science-

Science Inquiry is coming along fine. We will finish this introductory chapter next week!

Social Studies-

Map skills-

We will study about scales, grids and landforms next week.

We will quiz on each section and that will conclude this unit.

Have a BEAUTIFUL weekend!

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Spakausky/Grabowski Gazette Sept. 7-11

Thanks to Mrs. Edwards for being our copy mom this year.

*I would also like to thank all the mom's who volunteered.

Prairieview is collecting gently used backpacks for needy schools/children.

Please send these in next week, if you have any.

Thanks!

Website of the week:

Internet Safety Games:"The Cyber Safety Test from PBS

http://pbskids.org/license

Student of the Week

Brooke

Each week there will be a student picked to be student of the week. This student will bring in photos, magazine pictures, or drawings/ descriptions about themselves. The categories that they will cover are:

My Family

Special Friends

My Favorite Foods
Where I Live

Thing I Like to Do

When I Grow Up I'd Like to

My Favorite Toys

The schedule for the week will be:

Monday - put up pictures and decorate the bulletin board

Tuesday - share your board with class
Wednesday - Read your favorite book to the class (about 10 minute limit)

Thursday - Bring a favorite show and tell item to share with class

Spelling

Lesson 2 book assignment is due on Thursday, Sept. 10th!

Test-Lesson 1-due Thurs., Sept. 10th!

Thursday - test will be given and pre-test for following week
ALL Lesson homework due

**If your child passes the pre-test, the will receive a different list of activities and a different word list, on most weeks.

English/Writing

Chapter 1-"What is a Sentence?"

We will begin this next week.

Topics include:

*Statements and Questions

*Commands and Exclamations

*Punctuation

*Subjects and Predicates

ENGLISH TEST-UNIT 1 is scheduled for Friday, 9/11!

We will start working in our cursive handwriting books next week. I will encourage the students to practice using cursive in their spelling work. I will require cursive in January. Thanks!

Reading

We will study the different reading strategies throughout the year. The first one that we will focus on is Visualization.

We are reading Dogzilla and 10 True Animal Stories for this strategy!

Science

We will start with science inquiry skills.

We will cover:

*science procedures

*science materials

*scientific method

Social Studies

In social studies, the first unit will be about maps and map skills.

We talked about: