Chess Club
Chess club is up and running again this week. This will be the final two weeks until we decide what to do after the holidays. If any of you have good ideas, I would appreciate hearing from you. I enjoy chess club and the students seem to be having a good time. It is difficult for me to find the time I need for planning with the other teachers when I am unavailable two days a week. I would like to find a suitable alternative.
Holiday Drive
The students of Project Challenge grades 3-5 are participating in a Lion's Club Holiday Drive. We are looking for donations such as new toys, new games, toiletries, and food for the needy families in the Darien area. If you wish to participate you will need to bring the donations in by December 13. Remember that some of these families live right here in Darien. So let's help these families have a happy holiday season.
PLEASE DONATE!
3rd Grade Skills Reading with Mrs. Csorba
We will begin a new strategy focus as we learn about evaluating text and visualizing as we read. We will use the story Dogzilla as well as other novels and text as we apply these skills. We will also work on strategies from previous weeks.
4th Grade Skills Reading with Mrs. Beseth
Next week our story is "A Very Important Day" by Maggie Rugg Herold. Many different families prepare for one very important day; becoming a United States citizen. Our reading strategies are questioning, categorizing and classifying. Recognizing the question that 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.
5th Grade Skills Reading with Mrs. Bucklin
This week, all fifth graders will review the skill of drawing conclusions. They will also be introduced to the skill of Author's Purpose. Students will learn how to read a text and decide if it was written to persuade, inform, or entertain. They will use the acronym PIE to help them remember these three important terms.
