Field Trip Updates:

Thanks to everyone who has gotten The Smart Museum field trip for in.  If you have not, please do so.  It is free, but I need the permission slips as soon as possible!  Thanks to all the parents who can walk with us-we have 5 parents signed up to go!!!  Thanks!!

We will also be going on a Field Trip Friday May 28, 2010.  We will be taking the Chicago Trolley Car around the city for a Chicago Tour!!!  Should be wonderful!  We will have lunch in Grant Park (your child will need to bring a lunch.)  We will be leaving Ray at 10:00, returning around 2:00.  Your child has the permission slip-the cost is $13.00.  Pleas sign and return it as soon as you can.  Thanks.

We are practicing our dance every Tuesday and Thursday for one hour.  Please remember that your child should wear comfortable shoes to dance in on those days.  Thanks.

Mid-term reports will go home next week.

We will see the Chicago Children's Choir perform this afternoon.

Language Arts:  Monday and Tuesday during our language arts time, your children are taking the Learning First Test.  When I receive the results, I will send them on to you. Today was Reading, tomorrow will be Math.

In addition, we will be reading all week about Chicago.  We are creating a folder-book with all our work.  Ask your child what they have learned!  This week we will also create a Chicago Poem.  Please continue to have your child read each night for at least 30 minutes.  What AR book are they enjoying?  As always, thanks for your help.  I will print out your child's AR report so far this quarter.  Look for it on Wednesday.  The quarter is almost half over, so your child should have about half of their AR goal for this quarter.

Homework:  The Chicago Brochure is due by Friday.   Your child will also have another cursive worksheet-I want to say thank you for helping your child to learn cursive at home.  It is something that has helped many of the students improve on their handwriting and it is something they can practice at home-we are so busy during the day that it is great they can do the cursive at home.  Some of them are getting really good at it!!

If your child wants to do an extra Chicago Brochure for extra credit, that is fine.  When the brochures are turned in, they are being displayed next to their Skyscraper project in the hallway.  Please stop by and see!!

We are also writing in our Journals and in our Writer's Notebook.

Math:  We will be completing Unit 9 this week.  Lessons 9.11-9.14 will be completed, Monday through Thursday.  Our Unit 9 Test will be on Friday.  Your child will have their Math Journal 2 with them on Thursday to review for the test.

Homework:  Monday through Wednesday, with the Math Journal 2 going home on Thursday.  The Journal must be returned on Friday.  Thanks.

Social Studies:  Along with our Chicago Unit we are also working in our Time Magazine and keeping up on some current events.

Art:  Our Chicago Posters have taken on a life of their own!!  We will work on them Wednesday and Thursday and try to have them finished this week.

Science:  We are doing a few experiments in our Sound Unit this week.  Today-how sound travels.

We will have crayfish delivered here on Wednesday to also start our Life Science Unit.  It should be lots of fun!!