Report Cards: Your child brought his/her report card home today. Please return the envelope to school so I can reuse it for the final quarter.
Conferences: I am looking forward to meeting with you next week Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday for conferences. Each conference is 20 minutes in length and I will do my best to stick to the schedule to respect your time.
Resthaven: Next week Tuesday we will be walking to Resthaven on 40th street from 9-10 a.m. We are going to spend some time visiting with the residents and reading our nonfiction books to them. If your child knows someone there, please let me know and we will do our best to visit them. If you care to join us just let me know!
Reading Minutes: While I hope your child spends some quality time reading during Spring Break, I will not be requiring the usual form to be filled out. Enjoy your time off and we will resume Reading minutes the week of April 11.
All Star Reading: We have kicked of "All Star Reading" in 3rd grade. A letter came home on Monday explaining the details. This will continue through May so there is no need to rush. If your child completes 5 "innings" or genres of books, they will be participating in a baseball game against the HC varsity baseball team. It is a blast and the kids are excited!
Here is a look at what we did this week:
Literacy: We finished our Nonfiction books! They turned out great and the students enjoyed looking at the final product on Friday. We will be having our Reading celebration on Monday morning.
We also enjoyed a bit of poetry this week. We read many different types of poems and each child chose a poem to read to the class today for a "poetry slam". We also tried writing a few poems of our own!
Bible: We learned about the 10 commandments this week. We talked about how God desires for us to live in accordance to these commandments as we strive to walk closely with Him.
We also spent time each day discussing the events leading to the crucifixion of Jesus. We created an Easter poster as we spent time discussing the importance of each event.
Math: We have begun a new unit on multistep word problems. Once again we are reading carefully, underlining the question in our word problem, drawing pictures to help us if needed, and deciding if we need to add, subtract, multiply, or divide. Knowing math facts solidly helps greatly with this unit.
Social Studies: This week we studied the pioneers making their way to Michigan. We looked at the hardships they faced, how they traveled to Michigan, and what their daily lives were like. We will be covering Michigan becoming a state next week Monday and Tuesday.
May you have a blessed Easter!!
Lynae
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