Mrs. Napolitano's News
Week of November 26th

I look forward to meeting with parents this week for conferences. Please note the important information on yearbooks and our Holiday Service Project.

YEARBOOK: Now’s the time to place your orders. Yearbooks are $9.00 and the deadline for your orders is Monday, December 3, 2007. No orders will be accepted after that date. Please make checks payable to Lifetouch. Please make sure your student’s name, teacher’s name and grade level are marked on the order form. Yearbook order forms went home with your child on November 15th and there a few extra envelopes available; please try not to lose them. If your child loses it, you can send an envelope with the following information on it: student’s name, teacher’s name and grade level along with a check made payable to Lifetouch for $9.00. It is very important that you put the information on the envelope; Lifetouch does not know who your child’s teacher is.

HOLIDAY SERVICE PROJECT
Every year Prairieview “adopts” a needy family. Each classroom at Prairieview has a family or an individual that is in need at this time. This year our class has a very special family. Our family includes: Jasmin, who is a 1 year old girl, Jonathan, who is a 2 year old boy, Nicole, who is a 4 year old girl, and of course, mom and dad. Unfortunately, one of the children has cancer. In order to make this a special holiday, we have “adopted” them. If you could send in a NEW, not used, present for one or more of the family members, that would be appreciated. Please see detailed letter sent home with your child on Monday, Nov. 19th. If you wish to participate, the deadline for donations is December 5th.

READING
November Book Reports are due Thursday, 11/29 This week we will begin a new novel called Night of the Twisters. This is a very suspenseful book that makes you anxious to read each chapter. As we read this book the children will be keeping their very own twister journal. Our reading strategy for this book is 3 kinds of questions. Ask your child what these three types of questions are and how they are used.

LANGUAGE ARTS
Our next chapter is on adjectives. This week we will be identifying adjectives and the nouns
they describe. Next, we will use articles and demonstrative adjectives correctly. Last, we will
compare adjectives. See if your child can give you some of the rules to compare adjectives.

SOCIAL STUDIES
Our new chapter is on The Fight for a Continent. During the 1500s and 1600s New Spain
expanded by establishing colonies in Florida and New Mexico. The Pueblo attacked Spanish
settlements throughout New Mexico and drove the Spanish out of the area.

SCIENCE
We finished our hands-on unit on You and Your Body. Our final assessment for this unit is
designing how Ms. Frizzle's classroom would look including 8 of the 10 areas we studied. This final project will count as a final test grade for this unit. This project will be due Monday,
December 3rd.

MATH (Mrs. Napolitano's Class Only)
Our new chapter is on Dividing by One-Digit Divisors. This week we will relate multiplication
and division as inverse operations. We will use order of operations to evaluate expressions.
Next we will use mental math, basic facts, and patterns to find quotients. Finally we will use
compatible numbers to estimate quotients.

IMPORTANT DATES
11/27 Report Cards Issued
11/30 No School- Conferences
12/3 Last day to buy yearbooks
12/5 Last day to participate in donations for Holiday Service Project