Week of 12/6/10 - 12/10/10

Highlights for the Week of 12/6/10-12/10/10 in Mrs. Bell's Classroom

Mrs. Bell's Homeroom Class

English - Descriptive Writing

We will be taking a break from our English textbook to learn about figurative language. Students will study adjectives and similes, and will then use what they have learned to write a descriptive paragraph about a favorite winter memory

Social Studies

We will continue our study of the Southeast with a look at the resources of the region.

Science

Adaptations is our new unit in science, found in chapter 3, lesson 1. We will study how physical and behavioral adaptations of animals help them to survive.

Mrs. Bell's Reading Class

Spelling

The spelling test for this week will be on THURSDAY, 12/9. Workbook pages & contract work will also be due that day.

Reading
Next week our story will be Two-Star Day, by Veronica Freeman Ellis. It is the story of a boy who has a two very occasions falling on one day...his birthday & becoming a United States citizen. Our reading strategies are questioning, categorizing and classifying. Recognizing the question a story may raise is a good way to make sure you understand it. Classifying involves grouping like items, and categorizing involves naming the group. Grouping the items makes it easier to remember them. Students will classify and categorize the many characters and countries named in the story to help understand the story better.

Mrs. Bell's Math Class

The graded assessment for Chapter 5 is scheduled for Monday, 12/6. We will then move on to chapter 6, which covers the topics of telling time and elapsed time.

Don't forget...

We can now raise money for our district by recycling paper! You can help us out, too! Please collect any paper you are going to throw away or recycle (office and school paper, newspaper, magazines and catalogs, and construction paper---NO CARDBOARD!) and send it in with your child to school or drop it off at the green and yellow Paper Retriever bin in the Lakeview parking lot (near the fence by the Prairieview playground). The bin is available for drop offs 24/7. The more paper we recycle, the more money we can make! Do something good for our schools AND the environment! Thank you

Mrs. Karen Bell