- The parent team is hosting a luncheon for the staff on Monday, May 15 and I would love to attend. Is there someone who would be willing to come in and cover the class during lunch? I would need you from 11:55-12:15. Please send me an email if this works for you.
- Next week I will send home reading minutes and math homework but we will not be doing spelling due to lack of time with the Tulip Time parades.
- Tulip Time: (Wednesday, May 10 and Thursday, May 11) Both days we will dismiss at 11:30. On Wednesday your child will need a way home from school. On Thursday your child will stay at school after dismissal and we will take a bus to the parade route for the Kinderparade. Your child will need a bag lunch and drink. All backpacks and school supplies will be left at school on that day. A blue paper came home in your child's homework folder giving the line-up of our class for the Thursday parade.
- May 16 (Tuesday): Closing convocation will occur at the High School gym at 9:00. Please come join us as we wrap up the school year as a whole student body.
- May 29 (Monday): No school for Memorial day.
- May 30 (Tuesday): Field Day at South Side in the afternoon.
- Tetrahedron Kites: May 26 (Friday) and June 1 (Thursday). To conclude our final math unit dealing with geometry, we will be making tetrahedron kites. I am in need of several volunteers to pull this off (especially on that Friday). If you are able to volunteer from 8:45- 10:30 (or so) please let me know. A yellow letter came home today explaining the details of these kites.
- All-Star Reading: We will continue this reading incentive through the end of May. Our baseball game against the varsity team will be held during the last week of school.
- June 2 (Friday): Our last day of 3rd grade. We will dismiss at 11:30. Oh, how I am going to miss this group of kids!
- Yearbooks: The South Side/Pine Ridge Yearbook will be arriving soon! If you did not order one with your child's photos, you can still go online and order one now for $8.00 at www.geskusphoto.com. You will then select "Order Yearbook" and follow the prompts after you select our school's name. If you are not sure if you've already ordered one, you may contact the school secretary to check.
Curriculum Highlights:
Reading: We have begun our Biography unit. This week each child chose a subject to study and began to look at the decisions their subject made and how this shows the character traits of that person. We are busy taking notes and discovering why our subjects have biographies written about them.
Writing: We are busy working on our personal opinion essays. This week we continued to read articles and determine the big idea and supportive evidence. We would then think on a big idea and come up with situations in our own lives that pertained to that idea. Each child is getting ready to settle on the big idea he/she wants to write about for the opinion paper.
Bible: This week we began studying the tabernacle. We talked about the importance of the Israelites having a place to go to worship God. We looked at different sections of the tabernacle and what the furnishings meant to God's people. We staked the tabernacle out on the side lawn of school and had a lot of fun pretending to be an Israelite moving the tabernacle through the wilderness.
Math: We have begun our final unit of Geometry. This week we learned about polygons, angles, triangles, quadrilaterals, parallelograms, rhombus', squares, and rectangles. There is a lot of terminology with this unit and everyone is off to a great start learning it!
Social Studies: We continue to learn about the French and their relationship with the Native Americans. This week we did a bit of "voyageur math" as we looked at the trading between the two different groups.
Music Note from Mrs. Boer - Your child was told these past few weeks about Recorder Performances that will begin next week. Your child is to choose one of the songs we have been learning this year. It should include the three notes that we have learned (ABG). The students will be graded on their knowledge of notes, their tone, and keeping a steady rhythm.
Blessings!
Lynae
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