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Testing is in the air! Tonight we will be practicing for the ARMT Math assessments, please make sure and read the note inside the booklet that your child will bring home, I appreciate your help with getting our kids ready for the "big week". I'm attaching some test strategies that you can be discussing with your children over the next few weeks. If anyone would be interested in sending in snacks that week, please send me an email and I will send back a schedule of when to send the snacks to school. The testing dates are on our website. For extra practice visit our favorites page.
The next few weeks will look a little different as far as homework is concerned. There will be no spelling homework, we will do "word studies" in class. Instead, we will be doing math skills the old fashioned way, from our Hoover City Schools Companion Textbook that will begin coming home next week. We will continue to read and log.
We have learned all about North West and South West Native Americans, and why "where" they lived affected "how" they lived. Next week we will begin the Plains. Please send in a brown grocery bag for our buffalo skin.
We are almost finished with our read aloud The Lightning Thief. Our class would like to go and see the movie together on Saturday, February the 13th. I’m not sure of times yet, but, I just wanted you to try to keep that date open. If you are unable to bring your child, maybe he/she could buddy up and ride with a classmate to the theatre. Parents and siblings are welcome to stay, or if you have errands to run, that’s fine too, just let me know. If you will not be staying, please help your child get their ticket and any snacks they want before we enter the movie. Also, let’s get to the theatre at least 20 minutes before it starts to make sure that we get to sit together.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Thursday, December 17, 2009
Happy Holidays
I've really enjoyed spending December with your children! They did a wonderful job on their poetry presentations and were so excited about the Holiday party! Thank you parents for all of your support and help in making this year such a great one!
Enjoy every minute with your family and friends. I hope everyone has a peaceful and relaxing holiday and a happy New Year!
Enjoy every minute with your family and friends. I hope everyone has a peaceful and relaxing holiday and a happy New Year!
Tuesday, December 1, 2009
3rd Grade Service Project
Dear Parents,
We want to help Taylor Hendrix, a young girl who has been a cancer patient for three years at Children's Hospital, fill Christmas stockings. For the past three years, Taylor has filled and given stockings to all of the children and siblings on the cancer floor at Children's Hospital. She wants to do this for the children because she knows that cancer doesn't stop for the holidays. With our donations last year she delivered over 80 stockings to the children on Christmas Eve. We want to help Taylor fill these stockings again. Please donate any item from the attached list that you can, and our classes will help make the stockings. Thanks for making Christmas brighter for these children! You can visit Taylor’s CaringBridge site at http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/taylorhendrix.
Thank you,
Third Grade Teachers
Third Grade Service Project
Please help us fill stockings to give to children who are cancer patients at Children’s Hospital. These stockings will be delivered to all of the children on the cancer floor on Christmas Eve from infants to teenagers. Items to donate include:
· Play-dough
· Bubbles
· Puzzles
· Books
· Stuffed animals
· Cars
· Balls
· Dolls
· Crayons
· Games
· Legos
· Trains
· Art sets
We want to help Taylor Hendrix, a young girl who has been a cancer patient for three years at Children's Hospital, fill Christmas stockings. For the past three years, Taylor has filled and given stockings to all of the children and siblings on the cancer floor at Children's Hospital. She wants to do this for the children because she knows that cancer doesn't stop for the holidays. With our donations last year she delivered over 80 stockings to the children on Christmas Eve. We want to help Taylor fill these stockings again. Please donate any item from the attached list that you can, and our classes will help make the stockings. Thanks for making Christmas brighter for these children! You can visit Taylor’s CaringBridge site at http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/taylorhendrix.
Thank you,
Third Grade Teachers
Third Grade Service Project
Please help us fill stockings to give to children who are cancer patients at Children’s Hospital. These stockings will be delivered to all of the children on the cancer floor on Christmas Eve from infants to teenagers. Items to donate include:
· Play-dough
· Bubbles
· Puzzles
· Books
· Stuffed animals
· Cars
· Balls
· Dolls
· Crayons
· Games
· Legos
· Trains
· Art sets
Monday, November 16, 2009
You're Invited!
Our class will be memorizing and performing holiday poetry for you on Wednesday, December the 16th from 8:30 to about 9:15. This will be a very informal time just to be together and celebrate the season! If you cannot attend please make sure someone comes to watch your child. It can be a grandparent, aunt, uncle, or a neighbor. Let me know if you cannot find anyone to attend and I should be able to help. The children will be acting out winter poetry and will need to dress up/bring props to “show” their poem. They will be choosing their poems and bringing a copy home when we get back from Thanksgiving break.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
October News
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This Friday we have lots of helpers coming in to help us celebrate the continents that we studied. They will be bringing in food from all over the world, thanks to Mrs. Southworth for suggesting and organizing this and to all of the parents who will be sending in yummy food for us to sample at the end of the week. We are still collecting dry rice and beans if you would like to send some in.
What a busy month we have had. I'm very proud of what our kids are doing in class, they are really working hard and doing such a good job! In writing we are working on a monster exchange. We drew a monster and composed a writing piece describing exactly how to draw it. Then we sent our writing to our friend in Mrs. Walker's class but hid our monster picture to see if they could follow our written directions. We found out it is much harder than it sounds but we did an excellent job!
We started a new reading log and spelling menu this week. They are both in our BEE books and you can print them from the "homework helper" section of our web page.
We have been studying the muscular system and skeletal system of the the human body in science. The kids are having fun learning the names of the bones this week and using an online program to "put Annie back together"!
We are still focused on the concept of multiplication. More information on how you can help your child at home will be coming soon if you are interested. Don't forget that when the workbook sheets come home, they always have a page number in the top right corner for the hardback "parent helper" book that the kids keep in their back packs. This is a wonderful resource for you!
We have finished our read aloud The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo. This was my first time to read this book. I was very impressed with how the kids stayed focused and were with me through the whole adventure. We really enjoyed reading it! Now we are on to one of my favorites, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. The last few weeks we have been learning how good readers make mental images to help them understand the story. We have just started studying inferring as related to the characters in a book.
Our Fun Run has officially been kicked off! It will be a very important fund raiser for us this year!! Look for information to come home in back packs today and thank you for all of your support!
The kids can wear pajamas this Friday, no costumes please. They can also bring a small pillow that fits in the back pack.
Important Dates
Have a great week!!
Check out how others voted on past polls.
This Friday we have lots of helpers coming in to help us celebrate the continents that we studied. They will be bringing in food from all over the world, thanks to Mrs. Southworth for suggesting and organizing this and to all of the parents who will be sending in yummy food for us to sample at the end of the week. We are still collecting dry rice and beans if you would like to send some in.
What a busy month we have had. I'm very proud of what our kids are doing in class, they are really working hard and doing such a good job! In writing we are working on a monster exchange. We drew a monster and composed a writing piece describing exactly how to draw it. Then we sent our writing to our friend in Mrs. Walker's class but hid our monster picture to see if they could follow our written directions. We found out it is much harder than it sounds but we did an excellent job!
We started a new reading log and spelling menu this week. They are both in our BEE books and you can print them from the "homework helper" section of our web page.
We have been studying the muscular system and skeletal system of the the human body in science. The kids are having fun learning the names of the bones this week and using an online program to "put Annie back together"!
We are still focused on the concept of multiplication. More information on how you can help your child at home will be coming soon if you are interested. Don't forget that when the workbook sheets come home, they always have a page number in the top right corner for the hardback "parent helper" book that the kids keep in their back packs. This is a wonderful resource for you!
We have finished our read aloud The Magician's Elephant by Kate DiCamillo. This was my first time to read this book. I was very impressed with how the kids stayed focused and were with me through the whole adventure. We really enjoyed reading it! Now we are on to one of my favorites, Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt. The last few weeks we have been learning how good readers make mental images to help them understand the story. We have just started studying inferring as related to the characters in a book.
Our Fun Run has officially been kicked off! It will be a very important fund raiser for us this year!! Look for information to come home in back packs today and thank you for all of your support!
The kids can wear pajamas this Friday, no costumes please. They can also bring a small pillow that fits in the back pack.
Important Dates
Have a great week!!
Monday, September 21, 2009
News
Thanks to everyone who could get away for Open House, we had a great turn out and the kids enjoyed making you proud with their work!
Wow, on Friday I checked our writeboard and there were only a few posts, today, lots! Can't wait to share with the kids tomorrow!
Just a little bit about what is going on in class:
Reading-We are practicing making mental images as we read in order to help us understand what we're reading. Talk to your kids about your mental images, even if you are not great at making them! Continue to make sure your child is "sticking with a book" and reading on his/her just right level.
Writing-We have been working on collecting ideas for writing in our binders and adding detail to our writing pieces. Sticking to a topic will continue to be a focus. Next week we will begin collecting memories to put into a memory book. We will explore different ways to write about these memories. Please help the kids send in memories as often as possible starting next week. They will be glued into a book so if you do not want to part with original pictures, just print a copy and send that in. No bigger than about a 4x6.
Math-We have just begun our study of the concept of multiplication. The kids have compiled lists of things that come in groups and made multiplication riddles with them. this week we will begin working on our skip counting charts from 2-12 and study the patterns that we see in multiplication.
Content-We are finishing up our study of plants and beginning our study of maps and globes. Our end of the unit plant test will be this Friday, a study guide will come home tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who commented on our write board. If you have not read all of our responses the password is constantine, go check it out! And it's not too late to add to our board if you haven't yet!
Technology-We have been very busy in technology! The kids are using Spelling City to practice their spelling words, they have started their very own web pages, saved files, embeded html code, created slide shows, used online editing software to work with photos, built their "wild selves", and yes, doing the old fasioned keyboarding practice on Dance Mat Typing, and that's just the beginning! Blogging and E-Pals are coming up soon. If you have not seen all of this, have your child show you and remember to keep talking about online safety!
We have a new poll on the top right corner of this blog, go vote!! Explore the other links on the side of the blog, as well. There is a link to our "thank you" blog in order to show appreciation to the volunteers that work so hard helping us out through the year. Also see our class book shelf, sign up to "follow" this blog or get RSS feeds, etc.
*If you want your child's picture remade please send me an email. The date is September 29th.
* If you are purchasing pictures please send money in by this Friday.
*Scholastic book orders should be coming in soon!
*Check our calendar for other important dates.
Site of the month:
United Streaming(username-tanyaconstantine, password-united): http://www.unitedstreaming.com/ - A great site to learn more about just about anything that your child wants to study. You can go to our “content folder” for things that I have saved specifically for my third graders. Or, your child can search other topics. Just be careful that they stay with grade level videos if they search on their own. If you type in Magic School Bus in the search area, your child can watch ANY Magic School Bus video that he/she wants to.
Wow, on Friday I checked our writeboard and there were only a few posts, today, lots! Can't wait to share with the kids tomorrow!
Just a little bit about what is going on in class:
Reading-We are practicing making mental images as we read in order to help us understand what we're reading. Talk to your kids about your mental images, even if you are not great at making them! Continue to make sure your child is "sticking with a book" and reading on his/her just right level.
Writing-We have been working on collecting ideas for writing in our binders and adding detail to our writing pieces. Sticking to a topic will continue to be a focus. Next week we will begin collecting memories to put into a memory book. We will explore different ways to write about these memories. Please help the kids send in memories as often as possible starting next week. They will be glued into a book so if you do not want to part with original pictures, just print a copy and send that in. No bigger than about a 4x6.
Math-We have just begun our study of the concept of multiplication. The kids have compiled lists of things that come in groups and made multiplication riddles with them. this week we will begin working on our skip counting charts from 2-12 and study the patterns that we see in multiplication.
Content-We are finishing up our study of plants and beginning our study of maps and globes. Our end of the unit plant test will be this Friday, a study guide will come home tomorrow. Thanks to everyone who commented on our write board. If you have not read all of our responses the password is constantine, go check it out! And it's not too late to add to our board if you haven't yet!
Technology-We have been very busy in technology! The kids are using Spelling City to practice their spelling words, they have started their very own web pages, saved files, embeded html code, created slide shows, used online editing software to work with photos, built their "wild selves", and yes, doing the old fasioned keyboarding practice on Dance Mat Typing, and that's just the beginning! Blogging and E-Pals are coming up soon. If you have not seen all of this, have your child show you and remember to keep talking about online safety!
We have a new poll on the top right corner of this blog, go vote!! Explore the other links on the side of the blog, as well. There is a link to our "thank you" blog in order to show appreciation to the volunteers that work so hard helping us out through the year. Also see our class book shelf, sign up to "follow" this blog or get RSS feeds, etc.
*If you want your child's picture remade please send me an email. The date is September 29th.
* If you are purchasing pictures please send money in by this Friday.
*Scholastic book orders should be coming in soon!
*Check our calendar for other important dates.
Site of the month:
United Streaming(username-tanyaconstantine, password-united): http://www.unitedstreaming.com/ - A great site to learn more about just about anything that your child wants to study. You can go to our “content folder” for things that I have saved specifically for my third graders. Or, your child can search other topics. Just be careful that they stay with grade level videos if they search on their own. If you type in Magic School Bus in the search area, your child can watch ANY Magic School Bus video that he/she wants to.
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