Mrs.

Wallace’s Weekly Gazette

Quick Notes . . . Lake in the Hills Elementary
School
(847) 532-6932
*The ISAT tests will be the week of February 28th this year. Please be sure to Jennifer.Wallace@d300.org
read the attached letter with information about the test and things we will be http://lithroom12.weebly.com
doing in our classroom that week. A detailed schedule with all
of our testing times will be coming home as soon as that infor-
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mation is available.

February 14th , 2011

*Don’t forget to mark your calendars for Family Education Night.
Our new rescheduled time will be on Thursday, February 25th
Dates to Remember:
from 6-8 p.m. There will be excellent seminars with great infor-
mation and activities presented by teachers and staff members.  February 14th
There will also be at raffle at the end of the night. Don’t forget that for each seminar Happy Valentine’s Day
you and your child attend together they will receive a SPOT. It is going to be a great
night!  February 21 and 25

No School

What we’re Learning This Week...  February 28th

ISAT testing begins

Language Arts: This week in reading we will be focusing on reading strategies for
nonfiction texts. This includes understanding and identifying text features, reading
maps, and graphs as well as following directions in nonfiction
passages. We will also be doing a timed extended response
writing this week. This will get students used to completing a
given reading passage and response in a given time period. We
will be doing a lot of vocabulary study in class and for home-
work. Students will practice using context clues to figure out
words that they don’t know and use their knowledge of pre-
fixes and suffixes to understand the meaning of new words.
In writing this week we will continue working on our persuasive
writing unit this week.
Math: This week in math we will be reviewing fraction concepts and learning how to find equivalent fractions.
We will also be learning how to find elapsed time this week.
Science/Social Studies: In science we will be reviewing concepts that students will need to know for the
ISAT science test. We will also be learning about temperature and reading a thermometer this week.
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Lake in the Hills Elementary School
(847) 532-6932
Jennifer.Wallace@d300.org
519 Willow Street
Lake in the Hills, IL 60156
Phone: 847-658-2530
E-mail: Jennifer.Wallace@d300.org
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