Week of January 28-February 1

Happy Friday! We are having some crazy winter weather! Stay warm this

weekend.  Congratulations and good luck to Jack and Autumn who will both

represent our class in the grade level spelling bee on Wednesday. I am very

proud of all my spellers! As we inch our way to February, please make sure

you are checking your child’s grades online frequently. We are halfway through

the year already; it’s so hard to believe!

Coming Up Next Week:

Spelling: Menu will be due on or before 2/1.  The test will

also occur on that day.

Reading & Language Arts:  We’ll continue our cross-curricular study

of immigration as we read our Communities book. We will look at what immigration is and why

people immigrated to America in the late 1800ś.

January reading logs will be due on or before February 1.

Social Science: We will continue our Science curriculum, “Amplify.”

Mrs. Mandru's Math Class:  Unit 4 will continue. We’ll be focusing on

fractions next week. It looks like our Unit 4 post assessment will be on Tuesday, Feb. 5.

Important Dates:  

1/31 - Early Dismissal

2/12 & 2/13 - Math Conferences (sign up coming soon!)

2/14 - Valentine’s Day parties

2/15 - Conference Day (off)

2/18 - Presidents’ Day (off)

Have a great weekend!

Week of January 21-25

Thank you for the wonderful volunteers we had on our field trip! We had a great time. Check out the cool pictures on the homeroom app!

We will be celebrating Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday this weekend.

This afternoon we will be watching Our Friend Martin which discusses Martin

Luther King in an understandable, relevant way.  I’m sure the students will

love it.

Have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the snow!!  Don’t forget to check your

child’s grades online.  We are at the halfway mark of Trimester 2.

Coming Up Next Week:

Spelling: New words will be coming home on Tuesday along with a new

homework menu.  It will be due on or before 2/1.

Reading & Language Arts:  We’ll be reading The Matchbox Diary this week.

Also, our classroom spelling bee will be on Wednesday.

January reading logs will be due on or before January 31st.

Social Science: We will continue our Science curriculum, “Amplify.”

We alsostarted a new Social Studies unit on immigration. There

will be open book/open note quizzes involved.This is a cross-curricular unit that lends itself

nicely to our reading block!

Mrs. Mandru's Math Class:  Unit 4 will continue. We’ll be focusing on

multi-step measurement problems this week.  There will be a checkpoint

quiz on Friday (on measurement.)  

Important Dates:  

1/21 - Martin Luther King’s Birthday - day off

1/31 - Early Dismissal

2/14 - Valentine’s Day parties

2/15 - Conference Day (off)

2/18 - Presidents’ Day (off)

Have a great, 3-day weekend!

Week of January 14-18

We have hit the ground running and are working hard in 2019.  I hope

you all had a wonderful holiday break.  We will be visiting the Shedd

Aquarium on Thursday!   Please remember to send your child to school

with a sack lunch (throw-away.)  It will be a blast; we are so lucky to

be able to attend this amazing museum for free!

Coming Up Next Week:

Spelling: The work and test will be on 1/18.

Reading & Language Arts:  This week we will focus on choosing the best

animal teeth we could possibly have, researching about those teeth, and

writing/illustrating a story about our new teeth.

January reading logs went home on Monday.  They will be due on or before

January 31.

Social Science: We will continue our new Science curriculum, “Amplify.”

Mrs. Mandru's Math Class:  Unit 4 will continue.  There will be a checkpoint

Quiz on time on Wednesday. We’ll also cover measurement.  

Important Dates:  

1/21 - Martin Luther King’s Birthday - day off

1/31 - Early Dismissal

2/14 - Valentine’s Day parties

2/15 - Conference Day (off)

2/18 - Presidents’ Day (off)

Have a great weekend!

December 17-21

Important Dates:

12/18: Whole school Elf movie at the Tivoli

12/19: Unit 2 Math test

12/20: Spelling test and 3 activities due

12/21: 3rd grade bowling (am), 3rd Grade Movie Marathon (pm), Last day before break

Spelling:

• A new list of words went home.  The test will be on 12/13 THURSDAY and the 3 activities will also be due Thursday.  If you would like to study the words at home with your child, you can open to the Spelling folder and work on some activities on the menu. Please just make sure the activities and menu go back into that folder because we will work on them throughout the 2 weeks!

Reading/English:

• We will be doing some activities with the reading The Night Before Christmas. 

Social Science:

• We are well into our first unit of science. We are trying to answer the big question of how does a floating train work. We are in still in chapter 2 of this unit and will continue after break. 

Math (For families in my math class only):

• We are finishing up unit 2: Multiplication. The test will be on Wednesday 12/19. A study guide went home and is due back on Monday, 12/17. The test is on Wednesday, 12/19.

Have a wonderful weekend and one week and counting!

December 10-14

Important Dates:

12/18: Whole school Elf movie at the Tivoli

12/19: Unit 2 Math test

12/21: 3rd grade bowling (am), 3rd Grade Movie Marathon (pm), Last day before break

Spelling:

• A new list of words will go home Monday, December 10.  The test will be on 12/13 THURSDAY and the 3 activities will also be due Thursday.  If you would like to study the words at home with your child, you can open to the Spelling folder and work on some activities on the menu. Please just make sure the activities and menu go back into that folder because we will work on them throughout the 2 weeks!

Reading/English:

• We will continue our culture and traditions unit. We will be reading The Keeping Quilt and talking about traditions, as well as writing a reader's response. We will create our own class quilt of our own traditions too. 
• We will finish off the week by close reading The Night Before Christmas. 

Social Science:

• We are well into our first unit of science. We are trying to answer the big question of how does a floating train work. We are in chapter two of this unit. We learned all about force and touching and non-touching forces. We are thinking and learning about magnets and how they work to cause a force. 

Math (For families in my math class only):

• We are finishing up unit 2: Multiplication. The test will be on Wednesday 12/19. A study guide will go home on Wednesday, 12/12 and due back on Monday, 12/17.

Have a wonderful weekend and two weeks in counting!

November 19-30

This blog is for Thanksgiving week and the following week!

Trimester 1 ends Friday, November 16!

Important Dates:

11/21-11/25: No school due to Thanksgiving break

Spelling:

• A new list of words will go home Monday, November 26.  The test will be on 12/7 and the 3 activities will also be due.  If you would like to study the words at home with your child, you can open to the Spelling folder and work on some activities on the menu. Please just make sure the activities and menu go back into that folder because we will work on them throughout the 2 weeks!

Reading/English:

• We are beginning our second unit in reading called Culture and Traditions!
• This is a favorite of students, it will involve culture day later in the trimester. 
• We will finish up the last week of November with some reader's theater on the myths. We will also be working a lot in stations.

Social Science:

• We are well into our first unit of science. We are trying to answer the big question of how does a floating train work. In chapter one we are investigating how the train rises. We have learned that force is involved. We will continue with this after break and then move onto chapter 2: all about how the floating train moves. There is no chapter test as we learn, however we will have some graded things along the way. 

Math (For families in my math class only):

• We have started unit 2: All about multiplication strategies. The students seem to really "get this" chapter and are excited to do it. We will not have the unit test until the last week of December. 

Have a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday and remember there are soooo many things to be thankful for! 

Week of November 5-9

We had a blast at our Halloween party! Thank you to the families that either donated or helped out, we couldn't have done it without you! Pictures were uploaded to the homeroom app.

Important Dates:  

11/21-23 No school

11/30- November reading log is due

Spelling:  

• A new list of words will go home Monday.  The test will be on 11/16 and the 3 activities will also be due.  If you would like to study the words at home with your child, you can open to the Spelling folder and work on some activities on the menu. Please just make sure the activities and menu go back into that folder because we will work on them throughout the 2 weeks!

Reading/English:

• We have finished up our haunted house writing and it was spooktacular!
• We will work next week on Myths and more informational reading along with finishing up adjectives.  

Social Science:

• We have finished with our social studies unit and will transition to Science. We will start with balancing forces. A parent letter will go home to explain about the new program as well as a science parent night November 6 from 6-7. (see link) Next generation Science Parent Night

Math (For families in my math class only):

• We will be having our unit 3 test on Friday, November 9th. A study guide went home Friday and will be due back on Wednesday, November 7th.