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Week of May 12

 
I hope all you mother's had a wonderful Mother's Day!!!

All went well with last week's M.A.P. testing in Reading and Math!
This Monday and Tuesday we will continue to test in Language Arts during third period. Any make-ups due to absences will be later in the week, in a room other than their familiar homerooms.

The rest of the week looks like:
Language Arts: With the days we have left, we will continue to read How to Eat Fried Worms and finish the book as time allows (with no assessments).
Is there a parent volunteer who could make Dirt Worm Pudding Cups for our EOY Pom Pom party on Tuesday May 21?

Math: We will continue with multiplication /division mixed practice and Measurement in Grams and Kilograms.

Writers Workshop: We will continue in opinion writing as we end the year writing about our favorite story from our Imagine It! books.
Social Studies: We will review Economics on Wednesday and have our end of the unit SWYK on Friday. Please look for your child to bring home their binders this week to review this unit with you.

This Thursday is our LAST day to read to the K9 pup! Please assist your child in their favorite story to read and practice prior to Thursday.

MUSICAL EOY performance: We will be having extra practices this week and next especially during Friday's House Time. I know you are looking forward to seeing it all come together, as we are!
Thank you for your support!

Hello Parents,

It was a good week back!  The students had a wonderful time at Tellus Museum.

Here's a look at the upcoming weeks;

Language Arts: Monday we will begin a novel study that should continue for the rest of the trimester: How to Eat Fried Worms.  Your child will bring home the novel a few nights each week with an assigned chapter for you to reread with them (they are really short!)  We will be learning vocabulary and writing sentence summaries for each chapter. We will have multiple SWYK throughout the book for comprehension.   This is a good book for the spring and we'll have some fun activities to wind up the year.

Writer's Workshop/Social Studies:  Hopefully you saw the project assignment come home on Friday:  "Little Entrepreneurs " . This combines our economics unit with our persuasive/opinion writing.  They will "make" their product at home and write about it in class as well as make their "Shop" to sell it in.   This will be a fun way to learn, write, and create all in one! Please check the hand out sent home for more details and dates.

Math:  We will begin the x8's this week as well as begin our Geometry Unit: Polygons. Please continue to have your child practice all their multiplication & division facts each night.

My Reading Class:  We will begin the syllable division rule CV/C (Tiger Words).

Remember:  NO SCHOOL on Friday in honor of Good Friday!  I hope everyone has a wonderful 3 day break and a Happy Easter!

 

Kim Test

March 4-8

I can't believe it is already March and 3rd Trimester - this year seems to be flying by!
This week we will continue our writing genre of informational writing. Your child has picked a United States President to research and will continue to write their informational writing about them. In reading we will begin a new short story, Lemons and Lemonade – a book about supply and demand. Homework will be coming home this to review vocabulary from the story. In math we will continue to work on identifying, comparing fractions, and equivalent fractions. We will also continue to work on the multiples of 6. In Social Studies we will continue to learn about the 3 branches of government. In reading we are learning y ending i and e.
This Thursday the K9 pup will be here to read to. Don't forget to help your child pick out a reading passage to read to the pup Wednesday night. 

Don’t forget to set your clocks to spring forward this week!

Happy Valentine's Week!

Dear Parents,
I hope your child has filled you in with our fun "I Love to Read" activities of this past week; from book reviews, to acting out parts to our campaign of donating books to a school in Nicaragua. If you have any Spanish books you would like to donate to this cause please send them in this week. They will also take gently used English books.
Here's a preview of our week ahead:
Writer's Workshop: The students have finished their informative writing piece on their favorite animals and will be sharing them and their models/dioramas on Monday or Tuesday with the class and maybe even the 2nd graders!
Language Arts: We will study the part of speech called Interjections...yippee! Look for some fun homework to come home this week, with a small SWYK on Friday.
Math: We will begin a unit on fractions as well as our x4 multiplication/division facts. Please continue to practice the x2,x3,x5,x9,x10 for fluency.
My Reading class: We will introduce and practice open syllables (ex: me, go, hi, pupil, flu)
Social Studies: We will continue learning about democracy & the 3 branches of the government. More to come after winter break, though.
Thursday the students should bring in their Valentines boxes they are making at home, as we will exchange valentine cards and have a sweet treat!
Don't forget Friday is a 1/2 half, leaving at noon for Winter Break.

Happy February!

Thank you all for making my birthday so special! Your kids bring such joy to my heart!!
 
Language Arts: We will be studying grammar once again AND it will be writing compound sentences using CONJUNCTIONS.

In Writer's Workshop: we will continue writing our Informative writing piece on the animal of their choice. Hope everyone got the letter explaining the homework part of this, to illustrate in a poster or diorama the habit of their animal.

Social Studies: We will begin a new unit on the Government, please review with your child when the homework comes home, there will be some large vocabulary words that go with this unit.

Math: we will continue x3 multiplication and word problems. Keep up practice the math facts of x2, x5, x10, x9 as well for fluency.
My Reading group: we will review the syllable division rule for VCCCV words.

Please check their folders for information about Valentines exchange & don't forget to register for GP's Gala!

PS: The K9 pup comes this Thursday...a great way to celebrate "I Love to Read" month. Did you see the new core virtue: KINDNESS, with the memory verse of Galatian 5:22?

Week of Jan. 22

I hope everyone enjoyed their MLK Day! 

This week is a bit shorter, but still with some important lessons:

My Reading group: After learning the CV-VVC syllable division rule last week, this week we will be learning the CVV-VC syllable division rule. (Ostrich & Athlete rules) 
Math: We will continue with multiplication and division of the 9 facts. I hope you are using the flash cards we've made, but now the students know a mental math trick to knowing their 9 multiplication facts along with the finger trick.
Language Arts: we will continue working with verb tenses with a SWYK on Friday.
Social Studies: All the students did AMAZING on their SWYK last Friday. Those will be coming home this Thursday in their red folders.  We will continue this week learning about the Southern and Mid-Atlantic colonies. Watch for their binders to come home to reread the selections.
Writer's Workshop: We will continue writing Informative pieces, this week on MLK. They completed their "Chameleon" piece last week in class. They were awesome!
Enjoy your week and stay WARM!

Jan. 15th - Week

Dear Parents,
We finished our first week of 2019! Your child was asked on Friday to come up with a "Word of the Year" to focus on. Please ask them what they chose! 
This week looks like this:
Language Arts: We will begin learning and reviewing Verb Tenses for the next 2 weeks. This will help in our sentence & paragraph writings.
Writer's Workshop: We will continue to work on Opinion vs Facts in our Informative writings. We will begin talking about a new project, stay tuned for a little help from home on that one!
Math: We will begin x9 multiplication and division facts this week! Please look for index cards to come home to practice these facts, as before.
Social Studies: We will continue with the colonies, focusing on the New England region. Look for their binders to come home this week to review and study for a SWYK on Friday.
My Reading Group: We will begin a new syllabication rule - VC-CCV 
FYI: Please take note of the upcoming GP Gala and begin purchasing your tickets. The third grade teachers are coming up with some 'magical' ideas for a basket to auction off for our child's enjoyment!!

Happy New Year!! 2019!!

I hope you all have a blessed and relaxing Christmas Break! 
 
We had a wonderful Christmas party - Thanks to the wonderful parents who volunteered! 
 
I have added an album from our Varsity Trip and Christmas Party! - Please check them out!
 
We will be diving right into the New Year with the following:
 
Language Arts - We will begin a new comprehension story in our Imagine It books - One Small Place In a Tree. The genre of this story is expository and will tie in well with our new genre of writing. 
Writing - New genre of Informational Writing
Math - New concepts - Multiples of 0 and 1's. Review multiples of 2's, 5's, and 10's. 
Reading - Review of -nk, -tch, magic e, VCCV syllabication. 
Social Studies - We will begin studying about the 13 colonies and comparing the New England Colonies, Mid-Atlantic Colonies, and Southern Colonies. This week we will be focusing on Colonization and the New England Colonies.