Today was a great day! The kids seemed rested and prepared for the tasks at hand. This week is Celebrate the Arts week. Instead of their regularly scheduled Music time, the children attended a performance by a musicians from St Petersburg. You will find a notice in their homework folder that informs you of a summer music camp at Noise Makers. The children really enjoyed it. Two of the performers were from St Pete High School and are participants at this Noise Makers Music Camp.
Tomorrow, the children and I will attend a performance on drummers and drumming. We hope to see everyone on Friday for the culminating display of art and music. The third graders will be performing. You will not want to miss this production! So cute!! Plan on staying afterwards for a family picnic.
We will be reviewing for our Math test tomorrow and plan on testing on Wednesday. We will then begin our study of fractions. I will also expose them to another method for multiplying double digit numbers called the Lattice Method.
Our spelling words this week continue our review of singular and plural words. The words are posted on the side of the blog and are as follows: adults, armies, coaches, envelopes, factories, holidays, libraries, lunches, members, monkeys, patches, sandwiches, scratches, slippers, valleys.Tonight the children are to write each spelling words once in cursive on the handwriting paper that I have provided.
The Reading Comprehension this week is entitled, The History of the Toy. The skill or focus with this passage is cause and effect. The children will need to read carefully so that they can respond to the short 5 questions that either have them thinking about the cause of the effect. This is due on Friday and don't forget to sign the work after it has been completed.
The children have a VERB project that is due on Friday. I reviewed this project last week . However, I would like you to also know what the expectations are. First, they are to cut out various pictures that show action and make a collage one or both sides of the briefcase. Inside the briefcase, you should find a sheet that requires the children to choose vivid verbs from the box at the bottom of the sheet. Next, they should choose 3 activities from the list of activities that are glued inside the briefcase. The children are to complete one activity per sheet of paper. I have asked the children not to bring these in early so that it will remain a secret until share time on Friday!
We are completing our Native American study this week with the Iroquois. The children will decide which group they would like to belong to and write a personal narrative based on the facts that they have learned about that group. We will also continue our research and work on our Sawgrass projects. I did forget to remind the children to continue their research at home tonight on whatever topic they have been assigned by the group. It is easier if they bring in the research and study it here than have everyone trying to get on four computers. We are using the laptops for research but we do have to share with the other classes.
It is my hope that we will have an author celebration toward the end of May. At that time, we will not only share our writing pieces but our Sawgrass projects and our Car designs as well.
Please contact me if you have any questions. Also, if you feel the need for an end of the year conference, please let me know within the next couple of weeks. I would prefer not to wait till the very last week of school to be having these important discussions.
I hope everyone has a pleasant evening!
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