Mrs. Stielstra's Sideline: May 2018

Friday, May 25, 2018

May 25, 2018

Upcoming dates/Reminders:

Monday- No School for Memorial day
Tuesday- Celebration with Ruff Readers.
Tuesday- Field day in the afternoon at Southside. Be sure to send your child with a water bottle.
Wednesday- Tetrahedron kites in the morning. We are set with volunteers.
Thursday- Last full day of school. Send your child with a bag to bring home all of the goodies in the lockers and desk. :)
Thursday- Presenting biography posters
Thursday- Baseball game with the varsity team
Friday- Final chapel at 10:45. Feel free to come worship with us!
Friday- Last day of school. Dismissal is at 11:30. Your child will come home with a report card and a baton.
All books (both for my library and Pine Ridge library) are due back to school.

A few pictures of the week:

Gathering supplies for our biography posters

Laying out our biography posters

Learning about pitch with tuning forks in Science

Making harps in Science

Testing the different pitch of the strings

Friday, May 18, 2018

May 18, 2018

Upcoming Dates/Reminders:

Homework: Word Work is officially done due to the fact that I need to give a final spelling inventory to the class next week. I will ask for reading minutes yet next week but math homework will be extra credit.
All library books are due back to the library.
My classroom books can keep going back and forth. However, if you child has several at home please have them start returning them to school.
May 25 (Friday): Tetrahedron Kites. Several students still need to bring in tissue paper for this project. I am all set with volunteers on this day. Thank you!
May 28 (Monday): No School for Memorial Day
May 29 (Tuesday): Ruff Reader Celebration
May 29 (Tuesday) Field day in the afternoon. Please send your child with a water bottle!
May 30 (Wednesday): Tetrahedron Kites. Once again I am all set with volunteers.
May 30 (Wednesday): Class cursive party
May 30 (Wednesday): Sound Demonstration at the High School. This ties in nicely with our Science unit. We will be out of the building from 11:00-12:00.
May 31 (Thursday): Baseball game
May 31 (Thursday): Send your child with a bag to bring home all of the treasures from his/her desk and locker.
June 1 (Friday): Last day of 3rd grade. Join us for our final chapel at 10:45. Your child will be coming home with a report card and baton. We will dismiss at 11:30.

Curriculum Highlights:
Convocation: What a great morning of worshipping God as a student body!

Literacy: We are busy reading biographies and looking at the life and time of another person. Next week we will begin biography posters. In writing we have finished our rough drafts of How I See God and we will begin our final copy next week.

Math: We are wrapping up our final unit of geometry, area, and perimeter and will take our final assessment next week.

Bible: We looked at the story of Caleb, Joshua, and the 10 other spies looking over the promised land. We acted out a reader's theatre of the story and wrote about it in the perspective of an Israelite child. We have also been spending a lot of time in devotions lately with song and prayer.

Science: We have begun our final unit called Light and Sound. This unit has a lot of fun experiments with it and we enjoyed learning how light travels in a straight line, how light reflects from one thing to another, and how light interacts with our eye.

Have a wonderful weekend!
Lynae

Thursday, May 10, 2018

May 10, 2018

Upcoming Dates/Reminders:

Homework next week: We will resume reading minutes, math due on Friday, work work with a test on Friday, and Bible memory.
Delta Testing: I will need to take a day next week and give this assessment. It should not take long and we will do it on a morning when the kids seem rested and ready to go.
May 15 (Tuesday): End of the year convocation at the high school. Come and worship with us at 9:00.
May 18 (Friday): All school library books are due back.
May 25: Tetrahedron Kites. I am all set with volunteers. Thank you for your willingness to help!
May 28 (Monday): Memorial Day
May 29 (Tuesday): Celebration with our Ruff Reader Volunteers
May 29 (Tuesday): Field day in the afternoon
May 30 (Wednesday): Tetrahedron Kites. Once again, I am set with volunteers. Thank you!
May 31 (Thursday): Last full day. Send your child with a bag to bring home all of the goodies from his/her desk! Some kids have A LOT to bring! :)
June 1: Last day. This is a half day and dismissal is at 11:30. Feel free to join us for our final chapel at 10:45.
All-Start baseball game: This is happening! However, we are dependent on the players exam schedule and tournament schedule. It will likely be one of the afternoons of our last week of school.

Tulip Time Pictures:

Ready to go!

Heading to the beginning of the parade route

Waiting to line up

Have a wonderful weekend! To all of the fabulous moms....Happy Mother's Day!

Lynae

Friday, May 4, 2018

May 4, 2018

Upcoming Dates/Reminders:

Homework next week: We are going to take the week off from everything with Tulip Time.
May 9 (Wednesday): Tulip Time. We will dismiss at 11:30
May 10 (Thursday): We will be marching in the Kinderparade. See attachment to email.
May 15 (Tuesday): End of the year convocation. We will be gathering at 9:00 at the High School to close the school year as an entire student body. Come and join us as we praise the Lord!
May 25: Tetrahedron Kites. I need several volunteers this afternoon! If you are able to help please send me an email.
May 28 (Monday): No School. Labor Day.
May 29 (Tuesday): Field day in the afternoon.
May 30: Tetrahedron Kites from 8:30-10:00. Once again I could use a few volunteers.
June 1 (Friday): Last day of School. We will dismiss at 11:30. (Insert Mrs. Stielstra's tears!

Curriculum Highlights:
Math: We are busy finding the area and perimeter in different shapes. We are also learning how to find side lengths. We are working carefully and trying to remember that perimeter is the outer edge and area is inside a shape. This takes careful work and reading!

Language Arts: We are close to wrapping up our mystery book clubs! I love listening to the kids discuss their books and they are doing a wonderful job of digging deep into the text for their teaching points each day too. In writing we have begun our rough drafts on how we see God in creation and in the Bible. There will be no word work next week.

Social Studies: This week we looked at the pioneers as they started to make their way to Michigan. We looked at what life was like for the pioneers and how they traveled in the wagon trains. We also looked at the log cabins that they lived in.

Bible: We learned about the tabernacle the Israelites build this week. We went outdoors and created the dimensions of the Holy Place. We then pretended to be the tribes of Israel and pack up the tabernacle to move to the next location. We talked about how the tabernacle was always in the center of the camp and how God desires to be in the center of our lives as well.