Downers Grove Field Trip Pictures Nov. 6, 2009

Halloween------

Matter does Matter!!!

Pictures from our Matter, Matters "field trip" today!

What great experiments our third grade SCIENTISTS did!

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

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

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!