What a great way to start the first full week of school! With every day, the children are becoming more familiar with the daily schedule. As always at the beginning of the year, it is taking us longer to get activities completed, but that will improve with time and familiarity.
Please put Thursday, August 25, on your calendar. It is Back-To-School Night. I look forward to seeing everyone. There is a great deal of information to share and I love it when everyone is present. Then everyone can benefit from questions as well.
There will be a letter coming home tomorrow, but I wanted to put out the "all call" for parent volunteers for the library. The library is offering training sessions on August 23 from 8:15-8:45 AND 2:00-2:30 as well as on August 24 from 8:15-8:45. Volunteers are needed to help children check books and and out as well as help locate appropriate books to read. We would need library volunteers for Tuesdays and Thursdays.Every other week we have a lesson in the library, but the children still return books on that day. Sometimes we have the time after our lesson to check out books. If not, we return on Thursday to take care of that. It makes it very difficult for the children to utilize the library without the volunteers. If you are interested in being a library volunteer, please contact Jennifer Pine at 727-421-9861 or at jpine@eventworx.net or Lisa Hahn at 727-480-5183 or nhahn3@verizon.net. Thank you to those who have already expressed an interest.
Tonight the children are coming home with their first spelling list of the year. These words are example of words that follow the Closed Syllable rule. They have the four rules that we will study in their spelling notebook along with the hand written list of the words for this week. Tonight for homework they are to put the words in ABC order on the sheet that is in their homework folder. You will notice that we began the exercise in class so that they would have an example to follow at home. I am going to show the children SpellingCity in class tomorrow Often I will ask them to complete a fun game off this website and print it out as homework.
We didn't get to all the "Me" bags today. We will finish sharing tomorrow. I love this activity in that I learn a little something about each child. It is also a great way for the kids to learn more about their classmates. We definitely have artists, pianists, swimmers, cat lovers, dog lovers, lego builders, baseball enthusiasts, fishermen and women, shell collectors,bike competitors, and children who just love hanging out with you! That's just half of the class! More to follow!
We began our first lesson in Wordly Wise. The words are : cylinder, examine, fatal, feature, grasp, jet, marine, scar, tentacle, vessel. We will take two weeks per lesson. They learn the definitions, how to use the words in sentences, and complete a reading comprehension activity that used the words in the story. We also play other "made up" games that will hopefully enable the children to have these words in conversations and in their writing. You may want to reinforce this vocabulary at home as well. At the end of the two weeks, there is a quiz. I will share the format at Back-To-School Night.
We began our Math Lesson today by reading the book, Once Upon A Dime, by Nancy Allen. The children got a real kick out of this book. Ask your child about how the farmer was able to get his tree to grow money. You will see the children's artwork related to the book hanging on Thursday night. Then we continued the lesson by talking about numbers and patterns. We completed a grid of numbers and had to complete some rather difficult patterns. The class seems to have a grasp of number sense, but it does require a great deal of practice with larger numbers.However, I was very pleased with what they already knew. That way I can build and challenge!
Tonight the children are to prepare a necklace of broccoli. We began reading our class novel, How To Be a Perfect Person In Three Days. You will want to ask your child about Milo and what he hopes to accomplish in just three days. This is a tradition on third grade. We will take a class photo of course wearing our broccoli.
Please don't forget to turn in your email form and handbook form to me ASAP. I need to get the class email list going and the every child needs to sign the handbook form indicating that they understand what is expected of everyone here at Shorecrest. Thank you very much for you help!
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