Hello students!! We have only 10 days left of school. We are so sad!! We have had a great year with top notch kids! Here is a calendar of the next few weeks events...they will be busy ones.
Monday, May 13, 2013: Early Release/PLC
Wednesday, May 15, 2013: Evacuation Drill in the morning
Wednesday, May 15, 2013: Class Talent Show at 10:30 AM
Friday, May 17, 2013: Rain forest Play
Monday, May 20, 2013: Third Grade Picnic in the Park
Wednesday, May 22, 2013: Awards Assembly (9:45)
Thursday, May 23, 2013: Meet the Teacher for next year
Friday, May 24, 2013: Field and Fun Day
Language Arts:
This week we are starting our Rain forest book study of "Afternoon on the Amazon". We read a few chapters everyday and answer guided reading questions. Some of the students have already read the story but it is a great review as we prepare for our Rain forest play. We will be practicing the play the entire week. The students are not required to memorize their parts, they just say them as they hold their animals.
We will also be completing our "Newspaper" headliner on living in a balanced community. This has been a great project for the kids!!
Math:
Awesome job on using the book to do your work! You are getting quite efficient at copying down the problems and solving them. This week, we will start our review on subtraction.
Science:
The students are working on a nutrition unit with small cooperative groups. They are responsible for the reading, a slide show, a presentation, a poster, and a report. They have a lot of fun doing this together. Our class butterflies have all made their chrysalis. They should emerge at the end of next week. It usually takes them about 2 weeks to form into a butterfly.
Question of the week:
What is the difference between perpendicular lines and parallel lines? If I couldn't see the lines, how would you explain them to me?
What is the area of a garden spot that is 7 feet wide and 8 feet long?
Housekeeping:
Monday, May 6, 2013: Early Release/PLC
Tuesday, May 7, 2013: Smilefest for Ellis Third Grade
Wednesday, May 8, 2013: Music with Mr. O'Brian
Thursday, May 9, 2013: Ellis PTA Art Fair 5:00 pm-7:00 pm.
Friday, May 10, 2013: PTA Field Trip to REEL THEATER
Wednesday, May 15, 2013: Evacuation Drill
Wednesday, May 15, 2013: Class Talent Show
Friday, May 17, 2013: Rain Forest Play
Monday, May 20, 2013: Third Grade Picnic in the Park.
Our story for the week is Ramona Quimby, Age 8. We are again looking for the problems in the story and how they are being solved. At the end of the selection, the students will review the three stories we have studied over the past three weeks. They will write a one paragraph review about the story of their choice. They will include various problems, solutions, events and characters from the story they choose.
SPELLING LIST:
- I'm
- he's
- aren't
- couldn't
- won't
- o'clock
- wouldn't
- weren't
- she's
- wasn't
- shouldn't
- I'd
Science
This week the students will study a food web from a grassy habitat. They will decide to eliminate one animal from the food web and what effect it would have on the rest of the animals. They will write a short 1-paragraph observation to be placed in their Newspaper Headlines.
Math:
Room three is doing a great job of organizing their addition problems and solving. This is an important skill as they advance to fourth. They will continue reviewing addition and subtraction as they organize their written work.
Question of the Week:
1. What is always at the beginning of a food chain?
a. consumer
b. producer
c. predator
d. prey
2. Create a food web with 5 animals and at least 1 producer.
