<strong><span style="color: #ff0000">Important Days to Remember:</span></strong>
<p style="text-align: center">Sunday, November 1<sup>st</sup>:  Daylights Savings Time ENDS</p>
<p style="text-align: center">Friday, November 6<sup>th</sup>:  End of Quarter:  <strong>NO SCHOOL</strong></p>

<span style="color: #ff0000">Literacy Week:</span>

Monday, Nov. 2<sup>nd</sup>:  Stripes Day

Tuesday, Nov. 3<sup>rd</sup>:  Purple Day

Wednesday, Nov. 4<sup>th</sup>:  Sports Day

Thursday, Nov. 5<sup>th</sup>:  Hispanic Heritage Day (Wear Red, Green, and White)<span style="color: #ff0000"> </span>

<span style="color: #ff0000">Future Dates: </span>

Wednesday, Nov. 11<sup>th</sup>:  Veteran’s Day:  <strong>NO SCHOOL</strong>

Wednesday, Nov. 18<sup>th</sup>:  Report Card Pick Up:  <strong>NO SCHOOL</strong>
<p align="center">Instruction</p>

Literacy:

In Guided Reading, students are focusing on the skill of predicting and the use of context clues.  The literary elements we will focus on are point of view and plot.  Students will be writing in the point of view of the main character of their books when writing during reader’s response this week.  For Word Study, students will bring home words they are having difficulty spelling and complete activities that relate to this.

Mathematics:

We are starting our 3<sup>rd</sup> unit in Everyday Math.  This unit focuses on Measurement.  Students will receive a Measurement Project this month that will tie in concepts they have learned.  You will receive this information towards the end of the week.

Social Studies:

This month, we will not only focus on Map Skills, but work on a unit project focusing on Native Americans, particularly the tribes that were in Illinois.  Students will learn about the economic choices they made as well as biographies of famous Native Americans.  The project will be due before Thanksgiving.

This week is the last week of our 1<sup>st</sup> quarter.  All homework and classwork turned in this week will be part of the report card.  I will send a note home next Monday asking you to set up a time with me so we can meet to discuss your child’s report card.  I can meet on other days besides Report Card Pick-up.

Please email me at <a href="mailto:ssprasad-hei@cps.edu">ssprasad-hei@cps.edu</a> if you have any questions or concerns.