Good afternoon! Happy Mother’s Day to all the amazing moms of my favorite third graders. Don’t forget our event is on Friday, so all your showering of love will be a little later. We are hoping you are able to join us at 2pm on the 15th.
Book Reports -Students have each chosen a famous man or woman and should be into their books. Just a reminder I give them at least 15 minutes every day to read these. A schedule of presentations will and more specific directions will come home next week. This is one where it is essential to practice ;).
Poetry Cafe -Friday, May 15th at 2pm. Students have been working so hard on their poems and are excited to share them with you. Moms, (and grandma’s, etc), the students are ready to shower you with love!
Academics
Literacy – Students voted to do another round of Readers Theater and we are doing a variety of short skits with figurative language. I love how much they get into it this time of year. It’s so fun!
Math– This week has been all about measurement in length and capacity. We put all our knowledge together from multiplication, division, fractions, and now measurement to do math this week. Students have a conversion chart and we talked about tools that can be used to help us solve capacity problems.
Science -Meteorologists did an exploration of where to have a snow fort festival. They learned about climate and looked at temperature data from three cities around the United States to determine where the weather would be best.
Social Studies -Students are divided into regions and half of them are working collaboratively on a PowerPoint and the other half are doing the 3D model of tribes in their region. I reminded them they are not using LEGOS or any plastic figurines for this one. Thank you to Mr. Sebens who will be providing our bases and thank you to all who volunteered to help with that.
Religion -We read a beautiful book on several Mary apparitions and students are researching in groups and creating posters to share with the class, and maybe even our buddies. They are really into the group projects!
ESPAÑOL, 3rd -They learned some verbs, like: bailar, leer, reír, apaludir y saltar.