- Report cards came home today. Please keep the report card but send the envelope back to school so we can reuse it next quarter. If you have any questions or concerns, please let me know! It is my pleasure to partner with you this year.
- Reading Minutes due Monday.
- New word work on Monday with a test given on Friday.
- Math homework will come home Monday and is due on Friday
- Psalm 1 is due February 1. Most students have already turned in their slip from home, but if your child still needs to recite it, I will have them say it to me on Wednesday, February 1.
- Wacky Wednesday's are here! February 1 is Crazy Hair Day and February 8 is Pajama day
- Valentine's Day- I plan to have a small party with the kids on Feb. 14 at the end of the day. We do exchange valentine's in 3rd grade however this is not required. I sent home a class list today on pink paper of the names of the students in our classroom. I have a few small activities planned. If someone is willing to make a small snack, please email me at lstielstra@hollandchristian.org. Thanks!
Curriculum Highlights:
Devotions: This week Evie and Stella did a beautiful job leading devotions. Both girls had prepared wonderful devotions that reminded us how much God cares for us and that we are so incredibly valuable to Him.
Literacy: We moved into reading "boxes and bullets" this week with our nonfiction unit. As we read an article we find the main idea (the box) and then locate all of the supporting details to go along with the main idea (the bullets). Students then place this information in their own words. This is detailed and time-consuming work, but everyone is doing a beautiful job. We also learned strategies to try when we come across unfamiliar vocabulary words in our reading.
Math: We have been practicing rounding to the nearest hundred and nearest ten. We also started addition with regrouping this week. Students need to create a "proof drawing" to show why their answer is correct when they add. We spent a lot of time learning several different ways to show how to create our proof drawings and students have chosen a method that works best for them.
Science: This week we focused on habitats, physical characteristics, behaviors, and defenses of our beetles and crayfish. We have been busy organizing all of the post-it notes that we took last week into these categories and placing them on a web. Sometimes learning is messy...but oh so much fun!
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| Our crayfish molted this week. The kids thought is was so cool! |
Bible: We continued to follow the story of Joseph. We saw how Joseph's dreams were fulfilled when his brother's came to Egypt and bowed down to Joseph. We talked about how Joseph tested his brothers with the silver cup. We also talked about how Joseph cared for his family for the remainder of the famine. Much of our discussion centered around Joseph's forgiveness of how his brothers treated him and how he didn't hold a grudge. What an incredible example for us to follow too.
I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
Lynae Stielstra
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