May 20, 2016

It was an absolute joy to worship on Wednesday as a collective student body at the High School.  I feel so blessed to be part of this incredible community of believers.  We also had a great afternoon serving in our community with our POD groups.

Worshipping at the High School

A POD group serving at Positive Options

Planting flowers at Positive Options

Upcoming Dates:

• Sound Presentaion- Tuesday May 24.  We will be walking to the High school for a sound demonstration from Scott VanDen Berg to wrap up our Science unit.  
• Field Day- May 31 in the afternoon at Southside
• Singing at Rest Haven- June 2 from 1:30-2:00. 
• 3rd Grade vs. HC Varsity Baseball game- June 1.  Almost everyone is an all-star and ready to play ball!
• Tetrahedron kites- May 31-June 3-I am still in need of volunteers on Tuesday, May 31 to make our Tetrahedron Kites.  If you are able to help me, please send me an email or note.  I would love three or four people to assist if at all possible.  The time is from 8:45-10:45.  I have two volunteers for Thursday, June 2 so I should be set there.  

Here is what we have been doing in 3rd grade:

Homework Note:  Your child completed the last word work test of the school year today.  We are also going to wrap up Math homework (although we have yet to take our last test.  Read on in the Math section to catch more on that).  Only Reading minutes and Bible memory are coming home next week.

Library materials:  All checked out library books are due back to Pine Ridge library.  Students are allowed to continue using books out of my personal classroom library until the final week of school. Please start looking for those misplaced books around your home.

Math:  After a tough review on Thursday the students asked for one more day of practice before we took our test.  I am pleased to see them taking ownership for their learning, so I gladly gave it to them.  We reviewed again today in the form of many games and activities and I can tell the confidence is increasing.  We will practice one last time on Monday and then I will give the class their final assessment.

Bible:  We started reading in the book of Joshua this week.  God shows his power and protection to the Israelites as he leads them across the Jordan River.  We did a reader's theatre of Rahab and the spies and see how God keeps his promises to his people.
We continue to practice Galations 5:22-26 each day and I will have the class say it to me on Friday, May 27 if they have not turned in their slip.

Reading:  We are busy reading our biographies about a person from history.  Each child is collecting as much information on their subject as they can.  This will be complied into a poster next week.

Writing: This week we focused on a faith based writing called "How I know God is Real".  We created lists of how we see God in nature, the Bible, and our lives and have written our rough drafts.  We will edit and create our final copy next week.

Science:  We wrapped out our light and sound unit.  This was a lot of fun as we made harps to explore how tension, length, and thickness of string affects the pitch of sound.

Blessings!
Lynae