Whipkey's Weekly Update (12/8-12/11/09)

Learning Objectives:

• Reading: Finish up novels, Time for Kids: It's Our World Too!

• Language Arts: DPE, Finish rough draft and begin final draft for book, Figurative Language (simile & metaphor)

• Math(Whipkey Only): Chapter 7 Test Wednesday, Review 1st Semester Skills (Chapt.1-7)

• Science: Microworlds

• Social Studies: European Exploration

• Spelling: Short Vowel Sounds vs. Long Vowel Sounds & Spelling Patterns for /k/ sounds, Homework due 12/11!
  

Upcoming/On-Going Events:

• 12/7 - No School (Professional Development)

• 12/15 - 2nd/3rd Grade Performance - 2 p.m. in the auditorium

• 12/18 - Gingerbread house building party - 10 a.m.-12 p.m.

• Non-Perishable food items are being collected until 12/13!! Class with the most donations wins a pizza party!