Three Weeks Left!

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.