Mrs. Napolitano's News
10-16-07
Last week we began Jr. Achievement. The purpose of Jr. Achievement is to educate and inspire students to value free enterprise, business, and economics to improve the quality of their lives. Our volunteer is Carol Koepke that works for McDonald's Corporation in advertising. She has volunteered in my room the past two years and does a wonderful job with the students.

READING
This week we are beginning to type our final paragraphs for India. Students will then be putting their paragraphs into a book. Later on in the week as students are finishing up their project we will watch India Kingdom of the Tiger.

LANGUAGE ARTS
This week students wrote a creative Halloween story. Ask your child what they chose to write on. We also will be working in our ISAT book reviewing prefixes, suffixes, and root words.

SOCIAL STUDIES
We began Chapter 6, Life in the English Colonies. We will be looking at everyday life in the
colonies for children and adults. During the early and middle 1700s, many young people in towns and cities became apprentices. Others grew up working on farms. On Thursday a new project will be introduced called “Signs of the Times.” This project will be due Oct. 25th. Ask your child about their “colonial” job.

SCIENCE
We will be observing and identifying each type of human tooth. Students will infer that different teeth have different functions, depending on their shape. We also will discuss ways to keep teeth healthy. Ask your child about the Food Crushers experiment later on in the week. To expand on this lesson students will be divided into five different groups. Students will then work in groups to create a double bar graph to represent their data.

MATH (Mrs. Napolitano's Class Only)
We continue to work on graphs in Chapter 3. This week we will work on graphs that look different and we will organize and interpret data in stem-and-leaf plots. Chapter 3 test will be Wed. Oct. 24th.

IMPORTANT DATES
10/17 Early Dismissal 11:00
10/18 Book Fair 6:30 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
10/19 School Spirit Day- Crazy Hat Day
10/26 School Spirit Day- Slipper Day
10/29 No School -Teacher Institute Day
PICTURE RETAKES: are scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 30th . Students must have original picture packets in hand to have a retake. If your child was absent on the first picture day, they will have to have their original order envelope with them at the time of retakes.
10/31 Halloween Party 1:30-2:15