Now until the end of the YEAR!

WOW! A whole school year has come to an end. As I try to think back to the beginning of the year, I cannot believe how far our class has come and how fast.  The students have made such an impact on my life especially because they were the first class I had the privilege to teach. Each one is so special and has so much potential to do wonderful things in this world. I cannot wait for years to come to see what they have accomplished!

Here is our last blog for this year! There are many things between now and the end of the year. We have finished all tests/quizzes/homework. 

Friday, May 31, 2013

·        Bowling trip to Brunswick from 9:00-11:00. Students need to bring a sack lunch to school. Hot lunch will not be offered tomorrow due to the bowling trip.

Monday, June 3, 2013

·        Field Day 12:30-1:30 For safety concerns, children will NOT be able to participate in the field games wearing flip flops. Please have your child wear gym shoes or have shoes to change into. Thank you for your participation!
Also, lunch will be served at this picnic. If your child does not eat hot dogs or would like more than one hot dog, please send a sack lunch that day. Thank you!

·        Rope warriors presentation

Wednesday, May 5, 2013

·        Last day of third Grade!- Dismissal at 9:30!

Have a blast this summer and a great next year!

Week of May 20-May 24

HELPING  HANDS  WALK  FOR  CHARITY

Bring your family and friends to have fun at the Helping Hands Walk for Charity on Wednesday, May 29 from 3:30-5:00 at Prairieview. The cost will be 5 dollars per family or 2 dollars per person. You will also be able to play fun activities and games throughout 5 stations for 1 dollar each. All money will go toward three charities: The Homeless Shelter for Veterans, The Mercy Home for Boys and Girls, and The Chicago Zoological Society.  A sign-up sheet will be sent home soon. Thanks!

Thank you for donating to the treasure chest! We have been running low, if you would like to donate treasures, please feel free to send them in whenever.

Math:

We will be having a graded checkpoint on chapter 7: probability on Tuesday 5/21. Students can be reviewing for this in their green packet. After we finish this chapter we will be working in stations for the remainder of the year reviewing all concepts and digging deeper in multiplication and division. This is our last week of dividing by 12's. The test will be on Friday.

Reading: 

We will be working on reading non-fiction texts throughout reading class by continuing our Egypt unit.  

Spelling: 

We will have our final Spelling list for the year this week. It is comprised of third grade challenge words. There will be a pretest on Monday and the final test on Friday. The homework will be to write the words in cursive and use them in a story (cursive).

English:

We will continue unit 5: Mechanics. The chapter test will be Wednesday, 5/29.

Social Studies:

We will continue to work on Egypt in Social Studies and in Reading. There will not be a “final” test, but I will be taking things for a grade as we continue to wrap up Egypt.

Science:

Chapter 1 test will be on Monday, 5/20.

 Fun Fact/Question on the week:

 Come in on Monday morning with the answer to this question to receive a sticker or mint....

What is the name of the egyptians kind of writing?

Have a great weekend!

May 13-May 17

Happy Mother’s day to all the wonderful Mothers who helped make us who we are today! I hope you had a wonderful day!

Thank you for donating to the treasure chest! We have been running low, if you would like to donate treasures, please feel free to send them in whenever.

Math:

We will be staring chapter 7: Probability. We have touched on this chapter prior when we were preparing for ISAT’s, so we will not spend long on this chapter. The checkpoint for chapter 7 will be Tuesday, 5/21. We will also be starting dividing by 11’s this week. The test will be on Thursday, 5/16.

Reading: 

We will transition from poetry into guided reading groups this week. Students will be in small groups working in class on a book/packet, or one of the daily 5 stations. 

Spelling: 

We are all DONE with Spelling. WOO HOO!

English:

We will start unit 5: Mechanics. We will be moving quickly through this chapter. 

Social Studies:

We are all through with Chicago. That was a fun unit! BUT, we are starting Egypt!! A vocab quiz will be on Thursday over the Egypt words, the study guide will be passed out on Monday. 

Science:

We will be working with the scientific method this week doing experiments. The final chapter 1 test will be the following week.

Have a great weekend!

 Fun Fact/Question on the week:

 Come in on Monday morning with the answer to this question to receive a sticker or mint....

 

What is the capital of Egypt?

Week of May 6-May 10!

Our class doing a Junior Achievement project.

 

Time is flying by…We are already in the second week of MAY!

Thursday we have our Wheel of Wisdom assembly!

Thank you for donating to the treasure chest! We have been running low, if you would like to donate treasures, please feel free to send them in whenever.

For the next two weeks, our school will be collecting any used books for our book angels drive.  Please bring them in between 5/6-5-17.

Math:

We are having our Chapter 15 checkpoint on Monday, 5/6. We will then be starting chapter 14. This will be a review chapter so we will have another checkpoint on Friday 5/10. We will also be working on dividing by 10's. The test for this will be Friday 5/10.

Reading: 

We will be finishing up our Poetry unit this week. There will be a vocabulary quiz on Wednesday 5/8 over the words that were handed out on Thursday. Throughout the week, students will be practicing reading poems. They will then pick out one of their favorite poems and on Friday 5/10, they will be reading their poem in front of the class for a grade. They should be practicing at home next week. The things that they will be graded on are: eye contact, volume, smooth delivery, clearly spoken. The rubric will go home on Tuesday. 

Spelling: 

We are all DONE with Spelling. WOO HOO!

English:

We will have our friendly letter test on Monday, 5/6. To study for this test, students should know the parts of a letter as well as how to correct an incorrect letter using DOL marks. 

Social Studies:

We will be finishing up our last third of the Chicago unit. The last Chicago quiz will be on Thursday 5/9. The study guide will go home on Monday and be due back on Wednesday. After Chicago, we will start our unit study on Egypt. 

Science:

We will be continuing with Chapter 1- getting ready for Science. We will be starting lesson 3.

Have a Wonderful weekend!

 Fun Fact/Question on the week:

 Come in on Monday morning with the answer to this question to receive a sticker or mint....

The Chicago flag is a symbol made up of two blue stripes and  four red stars. What does each red star stand for?