Mrs. Stielstra's Sideline: May 6, 2016

This week Pine Ridge gathered on Thursday for the National Day of Prayer. What a blessing to be able to do this with our school community!

Upcoming Events:

May 11 (Wednesday): Half day for Tulip Time
May 12 (Thursday): Half day for Tulip Time. March in the parade! I sent a BLUE sheet home today with our class line-up and important details. Please send me you cell phone number (lstielstra@hollandchristian.org) in case I would have need to contact you while at the parade.
May 18 (Wednesday): End of the Year Celebration. We will be walking to the high school to celebrate "Life together" as a whole HC community. The time is from 9-10 am and you are welcome to attend.
June 3 (Friday): Final Chapel at Pine Ridge from 10:45-11:20. You are always welcome to attend. We will be praying over our pod groups and over our sixth graders.

Here is what we have been up to in 3rd Grade:

Reading: We finished our mystery book clubs today! Next week we will be moving on to biographies. Most of the class has also become MVP's and will be playing baseball against the HC Varsity baseball team the last week of school.

Writing: This week we finished our rough drafts of our personal essays and spent a lot of time rereading our work, editing, and proofing with a partner. We will publishing these on our ipads next week.

Math: We continued in our geometry unit this week with area and perimeter. It is tricky to keep these two straight, so we are taking some extra time to practice these concepts!

Bible: This week we read about the death of Miriam and Aaron before entering the promised land as well as the story of the bronze snake. To review our unit we played a game of Jeopardy on Thursday which everyone loved. Our new Bible memory will be Galatians 5: 22-26.

Science: We continued our light and sound unit this week by studying shadows and how the length can change by moving the light source. We also began learning about sound vibrations, how sound moves in waves, and played with pitch with tuning forks and water. Science is full of experiments right now and the kids love it!