Dear Parents,

This week please make sure to send back the bottom portion of your child’s progress report signed.  If you requested a conference, I will be contacting you in the next few days to solidify a meet-up time, if one has not been set up already.  If you would still like to meet, please email me to set up an appointment.  My email address is <a href="mailto:agkrecik@cps.edu">agkrecik@cps.edu</a>.

This week, students will be completing a beginning-of-the year benchmark assessment on Tuesday and Wednesday.  Students will repeat this assessment later in the school year to chart their annual growth.  There is no school this Friday, October 23.  If you would like to place a Scholastic Book order, please do so by Thursday.
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Our classroom is always in need of Kleenex, hand sanitizer, and paper towel.  Please contribute to our classroom when you can.

<strong>Reading</strong><strong>: </strong>This week during Reader’s Workshop, students will be responsible for completing one letter to me about the book they are reading in their Reader’s journal.  Students should continue to work towards their 5 week AR goal.  AR is worth 10% of the overall reading grade.  In addition, as a class, we will begin a shared reading of <span style="text-decoration: underline">Maniac Magee</span> by Jerry Spinelli this week.

<strong>Writing: </strong>Students are continuing to work on their rough drafts this week.  We will be discussing how to include sensory details in their writing.  Students will be expected to write at home in their Writer’s journals on Tuesday and Thursday evening.

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<strong>Math: </strong>Homework:<strong> </strong>Study links 2.4, 2.5, 2.6. Students will have a short quiz on Thursday to review what they have learned.

<strong>Science: </strong>This week, students will work in small groups to simulate the moon’s phases.  Because of the shortened week, we were unable to complete the moon mythology.  This week, we shall.   <strong>Monday Homework:  Write your own original myth about the sun and moon. </strong>Students must develop their hypothesis this week and find 3 resources (either in the public library or on the internet) to support their experiment.

<strong>Social Studies: </strong>Students will be working in groups this week to research an assigned Native American tribe.<strong> Tuesday homework:</strong> Read pp. 58-63 and answer questions 2 and 3 on page 63.

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<strong>Spelling: </strong><strong>Students should study the spelling list of words attached to this overview nightly.  This week’s spelling test will be Thursday.</strong>