Happy Holidays!

Science Board Games

We had a great time playing our review games for our Science unit!

Pride Assembly

Positive Attitude

Respect

Improvement

Determination

Emaphthy

Thanks to the PTO for putting on the Book Fair!

A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will begin Chapter 6, "Life in the English Colonies."

ELA
Reading- We will continue to work in our ELA centers during Daily 3.  We will continue to do a close read of Chapter 6 in Touching Spirit Bear.  Not only will we be looking at different challenges that are being faced in this chapter, but also on different characters perspectives.

Essential Questions:  

How can challenges affect yourself and those around you (i.e family, friends, etc)?

How do characters, real and fictional, respond to challenges  (both positively & negatively)?

How are challenges conquered in literature and informational text?

Word Work- Spelling:  Students will not have Spelling this week, due to changes in our daily schedule.
Vocabulary-  Students will continue to create tableaux of their words, and work on a few skits.

Language Arts- Students will continue to work on their punctuation unit.

Science- Students will be learning about the barn owl, in preparation for our owl pellet lab.
Essential Questions:  How do organisms compete and survive in an ecosystem? How do ecosystems change over time? How do people affect ecosystems?

Math-  We will be taking a quiz on Monday on Lessons 6.1-6.5, which cover multiplying decimals.  We will also continue to review multiplication skills.

Important Days:

Tuesday- Early Dismissal, Festive Shirt Day, Winter Concert 10-10:45 AM
Wednesday- Bowling Field Trip
Friday- Tivoli Field Trip

Have a great weekend!

Winter Wear Drive

Our Prairieview PBIS is sponsoring a winter wear drive.  The school is collecting donations of clean new and gently used gloves, mittens, hats, scarves, boots, and coats.  They will be distributed to many Chicago Public Schools and Illinois schools, including:  Harvey, Posen, and Robbins.  Drop boxes are located in the Prairieview's Lobby and in each grade level area.  Thank you for your help and generosity this winter season.

A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will finish reviewing Chapter 5 this week and we will be taking a test on Wednesday.

ELA
Reading- We will continue to work in our ELA centers during Daily 3.  We will be do a close read of Chapter 6 in Touching Spirit Bear.  Not only will we be looking at different challenges that are being faced in this chapter, but also on different characters perspectives.

Essential Questions:  

How can challenges affect yourself and those around you (i.e family, friends, etc)?

How do characters, real and fictional, respond to challenges  (both positively & negatively)?

How are challenges conquered in literature and informational text?

Word Work- Spelling:  Students will be studying Lesson 14, and will take a test on Friday.
Vocabulary-  Students will fill out the Frayer model in their Vocabulary notebooks for our new Touching Spirit Bear vocabulary.  Students will then begin tableaux of their words.

Language Arts- Students will write directions for their Science board-games, and will continue to work on their punctuation unit.

Science- Students are in the middle of making board-games to review their Science material.  They will finish this project and take their Chapter 6 test on Thursday.
Essential Questions:  How do organisms compete and survive in an ecosystem? How do ecosystems change over time? How do people affect ecosystems?

Math-  We are working on multiplying decimals.  We will be doing Lessons 6.2-6.5, multiplying decimals with whole numbers and showing this process through the use of models.

Important Days:

Monday- 5:00-8:00 Barnes and Noble Book Fair
Wednesday- 7:00 Band and Choir Concert
Friday- Movie Night

Have a great weekend!

Happy Thanksgiving!

I hope everyone enjoys a wonderful Thanksgiving with their family and friends.  Thank you all so much for letting me teach your children and for providing me with a wonderful school year.  Enjoy your fantastic meals and good luck to all the holiday shoppers!

A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will finish our web-notes on Lesson 5.4 "The Thirteen English Colonies," and we will review for our chapter test.

ELA
Reading- We will continue to work in our ELA centers during Daily 3.  We will finish our Sitting Bull Glogsters and present our projects.

Essential Questions:  

How can challenges affect yourself and those around you (i.e family, friends, etc)?

How do characters, real and fictional, respond to challenges  (both positively & negatively)?

How are challenges conquered in literature and informational text?

Word Work- Spelling:  Students will be studying Lesson 14, and will take a test on Friday.
Vocabulary-  Students will play word games on the iPad and Scrabble.

Language Arts- Students will take their pre-test on punctuation and begin the first two lessons on sentences and proper nouns.

Science- We will finish our Lesson 6.3 notes and take an open-note quiz on Tuesday.  We will review the rest of the week and hopefully take the chapter test on Friday.
Essential Questions:  How do organisms compete and survive in an ecosystem? How do ecosystems change over time? How do people affect ecosystems?

Math-  We will finish Chapter 2 on multiplying and we will take a test on Thursday.

Important Days:

Tuesday-1st Trimester Report Cards go "Live"
Wednesday- Choir Holiday Concert at Yorktown Mall

Happy Thanksgiving!

Mood Meter

The Mood Meter is a nice way for students to check-in and self reflect on how their day is going.  The red and yellow quadrants represent high energy, where the blue and green quadrants represent low energy.  Meanwhile the red and blue quadrants represent unpleasant feelings and the yellow and green quadrants represent pleasant feelings.  We use the meter to chart where we are feeling and we write an explanation for our mood in our Writer's Notebook.  We have discussed how it is okay to be anywhere on the mood meter, but that our goal may be to reach the yellow or green quadrants by the end of the day.  It is a nice way to check-in with students throughout the day.


A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will continue to take notes on Lesson 5.4 "The Thirteen English Colonies."

ELA
Language Arts and Reading- We will continue to put our research into our Sitting Bull Glogs.

Essential Questions:  

How can challenges affect yourself and those around you (i.e family, friends, etc)?

How do characters, real and fictional, respond to challenges  (both positively & negatively)?

How are challenges conquered in literature and informational text?

Word Work- Spelling:  There will be no Spelling this week.
Vocabulary-  Students will play word games on the iPad and Scrabble.

Science- We finish our web-notes on Lesson 6.3.
Essential Questions:  How do organisms compete and survive in an ecosystem? How do ecosystems change over time? How do people affect ecosystems?

Math-  We will wrap up Lesson 2.8 "Estimating Products," and will work on Lesson 2.9, "Multiplying by One-Digit Numbers."

Important Days:
Monday- Roller Skating Party

Tuesday - Robert Crown Field Trip
Wednesday-Friday- No School- Thanksgiving Vacation!

Have a great weekend!

A Girl with a Cape, by Amy Logan

We loved our author's visit from Amy Logan.  She gave a very energized and engaging talk about how kindness affects others and how there is a super hero inside everyone.  The kids were not only excited to meet and listen to Mrs. Logan, but they were exuberant when they walked into school this morning to find out they had their own "capes" made by our PTO.  Thank you to all on PTO who helped make this author visit extra special.

A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will finish our web-notes on the Puritans, and will read Lesson 5.4 "The Thirteen English Colonies."

ELA
Reading- We will continue to work in our ELA centers during Daily 3.  We will continue to research different topics regarding Sitting Bull, and begin our Glogster.

Essential Questions:  

How can challenges affect yourself and those around you (i.e family, friends, etc)?

How do characters, real and fictional, respond to challenges  (both positively & negatively)?

How are challenges conquered in literature and informational text?

Word Work- Spelling:  Students will be studying Lesson 13, and will take a test on Friday.
Vocabulary-  Students will play word games on the iPad and Scrabble.

Language Arts- Students will turn in their published pieces of writing on Wednesday, and will continue our unit on punctuation.

Science- We will finish our discussion on succession.  The Lesson 6.2 open-note quiz has been pushed back to Wednesday.
Essential Questions:  How do organisms compete and survive in an ecosystem? How do ecosystems change over time? How do people affect ecosystems?

Math-  We will take a Lesson 2.1-2.5 quiz on Tuesday.  Then we will be going over the distributive property, and estimating products.

Important Days:

Friday - End of First Trimester

Have a great weekend!

Author Visit

Amy Logan, author of A Girl with a Cape, is visiting our school on Friday, November 14th.  Ms. Logan wrote this story about a little girl who is ready to make a big difference in the world.  She eventually gets frustrated because she feels there is no big moment in her life that she can make a difference in.  However what she didn't realize is that every time she was nice to someone, it made a difference in that person's life.  This is a story about "paying it forward" and remembering that there is a superhero in everybody.

In class we have decorated our own capes.  Every morning we then pass the capes around the room and write down one positive comment about the cape's owner.  It is a nice way to start off our day!

A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will finish our web-notes on Lesson 5.3 "New European Colonies."  Students are reading about the Pilgrims, Puritans, and the first Thanksgiving.

ELA
Reading- We will continue to work in our ELA centers during Daily 3.  We will compare and contrast how Slow and Jackie Robinson handled the challenges in their lives.  Then we will research different topics regarding Sitting Bull. 

Essential Questions:  

How can challenges affect yourself and those around you (i.e family, friends, etc)?

How do characters, real and fictional, respond to challenges  (both positively & negatively)?

How are challenges conquered in literature and informational text?

Word Work- Spelling:  Students will be studying Lesson 11, and will take a test on Friday.
Vocabulary-  Students will play word games on the iPad and Scrabble.

Language Arts- We will finalize our published pieces of writing, and will begin our unit on punctuation.

Science- We will finish taking notes on Lesson 6.2, and take the open-note quiz on Thursday.
Essential Questions:  How do organisms compete and survive in an ecosystem? How do ecosystems change over time? How do people affect ecosystems?

Math-  We will cover Lessons 2.2-2.5.  We will be learning about exponents and finding patterns in multiplication.

Important Days:

Tuesday- Picture Re-takes
Friday - Author Visit

Have a great weekend!

Halloween

Thank you to everybody who helped make our Halloween party a success!  Thank you so much for bringing in supplies, setting everything up, and organizing the games.  The kids had a great time!

A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will finish our web-notes on Lesson 5.2 "New European Colonies," and will begin to read Lesson 5.3.

ELA
Reading- We will continue to work in our ELA centers.  We will discuss how Slow's character changes as he grows up, and students will be introduced to our research project on Sitting Bull.

Essential Questions:  

How can challenges affect yourself and those around you (i.e family, friends, etc)?

How do characters, real and fictional, respond to challenges  (both positively & negatively)?

How are challenges conquered in literature and informational text?

Word Work- Spelling:  Students will not have Spelling this week.
Vocabulary-  Students will continue to make skits about their vocabulary words on the iPad, and will have a vocabulary quiz on Friday.

Language Arts- We will continue to apply our writing strategies by revising fragments and run-on sentences.  Students are going to be revising their published piece of writing.

Science- We will finish reading Lesson 6.2, and begin to take our web-notes on this lesson.
Essential Questions:  How do organisms compete and survive in an ecosystem? How do ecosystems change over time? How do people affect ecosystems?

Math-  We will begin Chapter 2, and will be focusing on prime factorization, and exponents.

Important Days:

Monday- No School
Tuesday- No School- Teacher Institute- Go Vote!
Friday - Family Bingo Night 6:30-8:00pm

Have a great week!

A Peek at Next Week

A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will finish our web-notes on Lesson 5.1 "Jamestown," and will be begin to read Lesson 5.2.

ELA
Reading- We will continue to work in our ELA centers.  We will finish listening to "A Boy Called Slow," and students will be introduced to our research project on Sitting Bull.

Essential Questions:  

How can challenges affect yourself and those around you (i.e family, friends, etc)?

How do characters, real and fictional, respond to challenges  (both positively & negatively)?

How are challenges conquered in literature and informational text?

Word Work- Spelling:  Students will be studying Lesson 10, and will take a test on Friday.
Vocabulary-  Students will continue to work on Marzano's strategies for making words more meaningful.  We will continue to look at how to use some vocabulary apps on the iPad, and how to use iMovie to enhance our tableaux and skits.

Language Arts- We will apply our writing strategies by revising fragments and run-on sentences.  Students are going to be publishing a piece of writing from their Writer's Notebook.

Science- We will finish discussing Lesson 6.1, and take an open-note assessment on Wednesday.  We will then preview and begin to read Lesson 6.2.
Essential Questions:  How do organisms compete and survive in an ecosystem? How do ecosystems change over time? How do people affect ecosystems?

Math-  We will finish reviewing Chapter 5 and take a test on Tuesday.  We will then preview and begin Chapter 2, focusing on multiplying whole numbers.

Important Days:

Monday- Parent/Teacher Conferences
Tuesday- Parent/Teacher Conferences
Thursday- Parent/Teacher Conferences

Friday - Halloween- 1:15 Parade

Have a great weekend!

A Peek at Next Week

A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will finish reading Lesson 5.1 "Jamestown," and will continue to work on note-taking skills.  During this lesson we will focus on making web notes.

ELA
Reading- We will continue building our reading stamina, and setting up our ELA centers.  We will read with partners and listen to the story called "A Boy Called Slow."

Essential Questions:  

How can challenges affect yourself and those around you (i.e family, friends, etc)?

How do characters, real and fictional, respond to challenges  (both positively & negatively)?

How are challenges conquered in literature and informational text?

Word Work- Spelling:  Students will be studying Lesson 9, and will take a test on Friday.
Vocabulary-  Students will continue to work on Marzano's strategies for making words more meaningful.  We will continue to look at how to use some vocabulary apps on the iPad.

Language Arts- We will be working on our writing stamina in our Writer's Notebooks, and find themes in our writing.  We will also be looking at conjunctions, and how to make more complex sentences.

Science- We will begin to read Chapter 6 "Ecosystems and Change."  We will read Lesson 6.1 "How do organisms compete and survive in an ecosystem?"  Again, we will focus on taking notes through webs.
Essential Questions:  How do organisms compete and survive in an ecosystem? How do ecosystems change over time? How do people affect ecosystems?

Math-  Students will take a Lesson 5.4-5.7 quiz on Monday.  They will then continue to work with subtracting decimals.

Important Days:

Thursday- Bus Driver Appreciation Day

Have a great weekend!

Sign-up for Conferences

A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will begin Chapter 5 "The Struggle to Found Colonies."  We will preview the chapter, discuss our background knowledge, and read Lesson 5.1 "Jamestown."

ELA
Reading- We will continue building our reading stamina, and setting up our ELA centers.  We will discuss our Native American name, and look at the Sioux culture.  

Essential Questions:  

How can challenges affect yourself and those around you (i.e family, friends, etc)?

How do characters, real and fictional, respond to challenges  (both positively & negatively)?

How are challenges conquered in literature and informational text?

Word Work- Spelling:  Students will be studying Lesson 8, and will take a test on Friday.
Vocabulary-  Students will continue to work on Marzano's strategies for making words more meaningful.  We will look at how to use some vocabulary apps on the iPad.

Language Arts- We will be working on our writing stamina in our Writer's Notebooks.  We will also review writing in complete sentences.

Science- Students will work with their partners to come up with their own Photosynthesis or Energy Pyramid song, that explains those processes.  
Essential Questions: How do plants produce food?  and How is energy passed through an ecosystem?

Math-  Students will be adding decimals, and will be subtracting decimals using base-ten blocks.

Important Days:

Monday- Columbus Day- No School
Thursday- Book Fair/Taffy Apple Sale 6:30-8:00pm

Friday - Early Dismissal, Spirit Day- 5th Grade Wears Red

Have a great weekend!

Junior Achievement

We will begin Junior Achievement next week.  Mr. Blocker will be coming to present the curriculum to our class on Tuesday mornings.  The curriculum covers basic economics and the discussion of topics such as starting up a business, and how to act on a job interview.  The students are always very excited about the program, and Mr. Blocker does an excellent job.  We look forward to starting next week.

A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will present our power point presentations on the Columbian Exchange, and continue to read our Time For Kids magazine.  
Essential Questions:  How can one country impact another?  and What can we learn from the Columbian exchange that has impacted other countries today?

ELA
Reading- We will continue building our reading stamina, and setting up our ELA centers.  We will do a close read from the book Teammates about the challenges Jackie Robinson faced.  We will also continue to comparing the challenges in Teammates to the challenges in the poem "Mother to Son."  

Essential Questions:  

How can challenges affect yourself and those around you (i.e family, friends, etc)?

How do characters, real and fictional, respond to challenges  (both positively & negatively)?

How are challenges conquered in literature and informational text?

Word Work- Spelling:  Students will be studying Lesson 7, and will take a test on Friday.
Vocabulary-  Students will continue to work on Marzano's strategies for making words more meaningful.  They will continue to make our vocabulary "note-cards" in the back of our Reading Notebook.  They will also practice acting out our vocabulary words, and turning our pictures and skits into an iMovie.  

Language Arts- We will be working on our writing stamina in our Writer's Notebooks.  We will take a quiz on subjects and predicates on Thursday.

Science- Students will review Chapter 5 and have their test on Thursday.
Essential Questions: How do plants produce food?  and How is energy passed through an ecosystem?

Math-  Students will take a quiz on Lessons 5.1-5.3 on Monday.  Then we will be using models to demonstrate our understanding of adding decimals.

Important Days:

Wednesday - Picture Day
Thursday- Spirit Day- Blawkhawks Day 

Friday - Early Dismissal, Spirit Day- 5th Grade Wears Red

Have a great weekend!

A Peek at Next Week

A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will begin a small research project on the Columbian Exchange.  Students will create a compare and contrast presentation of one of the products that was sent to and from Spain during the Columbian Exchange.  We will come up with a class rubric, research on Chromebooks and begin creating the presentations this week.
Essential Questions:  How can one country impact another?  and What can we learn from the Columbian exchange that has impacted other countries today?

ELA
Reading- We will continue building our reading stamina, and setting up our ELA centers.  We will do a close read from the book Teammates about the challenges Jackie Robinson faced. We will also read an article written by Jackie Robinson's daughter about her father's career, and we will be comparing the challenges in Teammates to the challenges in the poem "Mother to Son."

Essential Questions:  

How can challenges affect yourself and those around you (i.e family, friends, etc)?

How do characters, real and fictional, respond to challenges  (both positively & negatively)?

How are challenges conquered in literature and informational text?

Word Work- Spelling:  Students will be studying Lesson 6, and will take a test on Friday.  

Language Arts- We will be working on our writing stamina in our Writer's Notebooks.  We will continue to find the subjects and predicates in our sentences, and to make sure all of our sentences are complete sentences.

Science- Students will continue to work on their Energy Pyramids, and their open-note assessment on Lesson 5.2 had been pushed back to Wednesday.  
Essential Questions: How do plants produce food?  and How is energy passed through an ecosystem?

Math-  Students will begin Chapter 5, "Adding and Subtracting Decimals."  We will begin with rounding decimals and then move on to adding decimals by re-grouping.

Important Days:

Tuesday - Final Magazine Drive Turn-in Day 

Friday - Movie Night

Have a great weekend!

A Peek at Next Week

A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will wrap up Chapter 4 and take a the unit test on Thursday.  
Essential Questions:  How can one country impact another?  and What can we learn from the Columbian exchange that has impacted other countries today?

ELA
Reading- We will continue building our reading stamina, and setting up our ELA centers.  We will be reading the book Teammates, about Jackie Robinson's baseball career.  We will be relating his problems and how he dealt with them to our essential questions for this unit.

Essential Questions:  

How can challenges affect yourself and those around you (i.e family, friends, etc)?

How do characters, real and fictional, respond to challenges  (both positively & negatively)?

How are challenges conquered in literature and informational text?

Word Work- Spelling:  Students will be studying Lesson 4, and will take a test on Friday.  

Language Arts- We will be working on our writing stamina in our Writer's Notebooks.  We will also be finding the subjects and predicates in our sentences.

Science- Students will read and take notes on Lesson 5.2 on ecosystems.  They will take their Lesson 5.2 open-note assessment on Friday.  
Essential Questions: How do plants produce food?  and How is energy passed through an ecosystem?

Math-  Students will finish Chapter 1 and take the unit test on Wednesday.
Essential Questions:  

Important Days:

Monday -  Bear Down!
Tuesday - Magazine Drive Turn-in Day #1
Thursday - Magazine Drive Turn-in Day#2

Have a great weekend!

Community Day

Come eat a hot dog and Dippin Dots while you get your face painted, and take your picture in the photo booth.  There is something for everyone this Saturday for Community Day.  There will be a Touch a Truck area where you can explore a fire truck, police truck, sheriff's car, and ambulance.  There will also be a bouncy house for younger children and an inflatable obstacle course for the older ones.  For the active person there will be a 5K run/walk in the morning, and a 3 on 3 student basketball tournament in the Prairieview gym in the afternoon.  I hope to see you all there!

Event Schedule

8:30am  Registration for the 5K run/walk  

9:15am  Warm up for 5K by MFC Sports Performance

9:30am  5K run/walk

10:00am  Community Day Begins

11:30am  Matt Wilhelm Pro Bikes Show (40 minute show)

1:00pm  Celebrity Dance Salsa/Rumba Dance Lessons

1:30pm  3 on 3 Basketball Tournament Finals 

2:00pm  Community Day Ends

A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will finish Chapter 4 in our Social Studies text.  We will read and take notes on Lesson 3.  We will focus on sequencing events, and making a concept map to retell the "story" of the chapter.
Essential Questions:  How can one country impact another?  and What can we learn from the Columbian exchange that has impacted other countries today?

ELA
Reading- We will continue building our reading stamina, and setting up our ELA centers.  We will be starting our Challenge Unit.  To kick off the unit we will be doing a close read of Langston Hughes' s poem, "Mother and Son."  We will discuss the different challenges the speaker faced and the advice she is trying to pass on to her son.   

Word Work- Spelling:  Students will be studying Lesson 3, and will take a test on Friday.  

Language Arts- We will be working on our writing stamina in our Writer's Notebooks.  We will be writing about challenges we face daily, weekly, and long-term.  Students will also be finding prepositional phrases in their writing, and making sure they are using a variety of sentences. 

Science- Students will finish reading and taking notes on Lesson 5.1 on plants, and will begin to read Lesson 5.2 on ecosystems.  
Essential Questions: How do plants produce food?  and How is energy passed through an ecosystem?

Math-  Students will take a quiz on Lessons 1.1-1.4 on Tuesday.  They will also be comparing and sorting decimals (Lessons 1.5-1.8).

Important Days:

Saturday - Community Day
Tuesday - Magazine Drive Kick-off Assembly

Have a great weekend!

MAPS Testing

Next week we will have our first round of MAPS testing.  We will take our Math test on Tuesday, and our Reading test on Wednesday.  Please help your student by making sure he or she gets a good night's sleep, and eats breakfast in the morning.  Students are also encouraged to bring in healthy snacks.

A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will begin Chapter 4 in our Social Studies text.  We will be reading Lessons 1 and 2, and taking notes as a class.  The essential questions that we will be focusing on in this unit are:  How can one country impact another?  and What can we learn from the Columbian exchange that has impacted other countries today?

ELA
Reading- We will continue to practice finding key details and summarizing (finding the gist.)  We will also be reviewing figurative language, building our reading stamina, and setting up our ELA centers. 

Word Work- Spelling:  Students will be studying Lesson 2, and will take a test on Friday.  

Language Arts- We are working on their writing stamina in their Writer's Notebooks.  We will be looking at prepositional phrases, and making sure we write in complete sentences. 

Science- Students will continue to discuss what scientists look like.  They will then begin Chapter 5 on Energy and Ecosystems.  

Math-  Students will begin Unit 1 on Place Value.  They will be comparing whole numbers and decimals.

Important Days:

Sunday- Bears play!
Friday- Spelling Test
Saturday (13th)- Community Day

Have a great weekend!

Welcome Back!

Welcome to a new school year!  It was wonderful to see everyone at open house.  I hope everyone is finally settling in.  This is my third year teaching fifth grade at Prairieview, previously I taught Language Arts and Reading for five years at Lakeview.  I had a great summer with my 2 year old, Jonathan, and my 1 year old, Tomas.  We had a lot of fun, but are looking forward to the fall and football season.

I know this past week has been very busy, learning new routines and going over classroom expectations.  I hope everyone enjoyed the PBIS assembly today with Mr. Pagel's speech.  

Enjoy your weekend!

Important Days:

Monday- No School, Labor Day

Thursday- Curriculum Night 6:30-7:30 PM.

PBIS Assembly

 

Happy Summer!

Thank you all for a wonderful school year!

Enjoy your summer!

Phil Schwarz

We were lucky enough to have Phil Schwarz come talk to our 5th graders about weather and meteorology.  Mr. Schwarz is the meteorologist for ABC 7 Weekend News and ABC 7 Sunday Morning News.  He joined ABC 7 News in 1995.

Previously, Mr. Schwarz was the meteorologist at WNYW-TV in New York, NY, where he reported the weather for their 10 PM newscast (1993-95).  Before that, he served as weekend meteorologist at KSTP-TV, the ABC affiliate in St. Paul, MN. (1989-93).

Phil Schwarz began his career as a weather forecaster in his hometown of Flint, MI where he was the weekend meteorologist for WJRT-TV, the local ABC affiliate (1984-89).  During this time, he also owned a forecasting service.

Mr. Schwarz earned his B.S. degree in Meteorology from Pennsylvania State University in 1983.  He holds the American Meteorological Society Seal of Approval, and volunteers as an assistant coach for Youth Hockey.  He resides in the suburbs of Chicago with his wife and two children.

We were honored that he came to visit our school! 

A Look at Next Week:

Social Studies- We will be reading about the War of 1812, and will be watching a video on Lewis and Clark's exploration.

Reading- Students will be meeting in literature circles to discuss the end of their novels.  They will watch the movie Holes, and will write a book review for their novel.

Language Arts- Students will have a creative writing assignment, where students will focus on subject-verb agreement.

Science- Students will continue to explore the ocean and its many features.

Important Days:

Tuesday- Bowling Field Trip
Wednesday- Class Picnic and PBIS Assembly
Thursday- Early Dismissal- Last Day of School!!!

Have a great weekend!

A Peek at Next Week

A Look at Next Week:

Spelling- We are done with Spelling for the school year!

Social Studies- Students will take their Chapter 10 test on Wednesday.

Reading- Students will be meeting in literature circles to discuss their novels.  Students are reading Holes or Touching Spirit Bear.  They will also finish presenting their photo story projects.

Language Arts- Students will continue to study verbs.

Science- Students will continue to read about shorelines and may take an open note assessment on Lesson 11.3 on Wednesday.

Math-  Students will be dividing fractions and will take a division quiz on Thursday.

Important Days:

Tuesday- Phil Schwarz visits the 5th Grade
Thursday- 1:00 Talent Show
Friday- Visit the LV Library

Have a great weekend!

Wheel of Wisdom!

A Look at Next Week:

Spelling- We will be studying Lesson 31 in Spelling this week, and will take a test on Friday.

Social Studies- We will read Lesson 10.3 and discuss the Bill of Rights.   

Reading- Students will be meeting in literature circles to discuss their new novels.  Students are reading Holes or Touching Spirit Bear.  They will also finish their photo story projects and present them to the class.

Language Arts- Students will continue to study verbs.

Science- Students will continue to read about the ocean and may take an open note assessment on Lesson 11.2 on Wednesday.

Math-  Students will continue to multiply fractions.

Important Days:

Monday- No School
Tuesday- 7:00 PM Tech Night at LV for Families of 1st-8th Grade

Have a great weekend!

A Peek at Next Week

A Look at Next Week:

Spelling- We will be studying Lesson 30 in Spelling this week, and will take a test on Friday.

Social Studies- We will pick apart the Preamble and put it into our own words.

Reading- Students will be meeting in literature circles to discuss their new novels.  Students are reading Holes or Touching Spirit Bear.

Language Arts- Students will continue to study verbs.

Science- Students will continue to read about the ocean and may take an open note assessment on Lesson 11.1 on Tuesday.

Math-  Students will begin multiplying fractions.

Important Days:

Monday- 5th Grade Visits Lakeview, 6:30 Parent Meeting at Lakeview  
Tuesday- 8:00 AM Choir and Band Concert
Friday- 1:00 PM Wheel of Wisdom Assembly, Spirit Day- Wear Red, White, and Blue

Have a great weekend!