Dear Parents:
I
want to begin this week with a big thank you to Diane McConkle, Scott Parish,
Estelle Astacio, Peter Lehning, and Marianne LaValle for all your help as
chaperones on the field trip to the Outdoor Lab. The children came in on Tuesday still excited about the trip
and full of great stories about what they did and learned. The trip would not have been as successful
without all your help. Thanks for
making it such a memorable experience.
Can you believe we have
already been in school for over 100 days!
Wednesday was the 100th day of school, which means we are
more that half way through this year.
To celebrate the day the children made sculptures with 100 paper
cups. It was such a pleasure to
watch the cooperative brainstorming and creativity as the children planned out
their pieces. We may have some
future engineers in our midst.
We
tested out our unit on Ancient Rome on Wednesday and will begin our unit on
Mali next week. In Math this week,
we continued to work on area and perimeter. We have relied upon our knowledge of arrays for this unit to
find the area of various shapes.
Overall the children are doing a good job with learning their facts I
would like everyone to continue practicing these facts, along with their
addition and subtraction facts.
These learning fundamentals are an essential foundation for further
math, and they need to be fully mastered.
Practice for ten minutes a day will help greatly. In Science, the children continue to learn about
solids, liquids and gasses as we extend our learning to properties of
matter. This will take us to the
study of force and motion and simple machines.
On Wednesday, February
27th we will be having our annual Curriculum Day. This will be an opportunity for you to come join your child
as we rotate through various curricular activities. This is a fun way for you to get a taste of some of the
different Math, Science, Social Studies and Language Arts activities your child
is engaged in throughout the year.
This school-wide event will be from 9:30-11:30. There is a separate flyer in your
child’s Friday Folder with additional details.
As
you know Parent Teacher Conferences are on Thursday and Friday March 7-8. I
have placed an electronic sign-up sheet on my blog. Please check your schedules and select a time to meet. Once you have signed up I will send out
an email confirmation. There are
several meeting times next week for those who may like to have an earlier
meeting time. I look forward to
discussing your child’s progress with you at these meetings.
Three years ago, the
Third Grade began a garden for the “Plot for Hunger” project. This community service project helps to
grow fruits and vegetable for the AFAC food bank. As a grade level we will be planting our garden again this
year. We will be planting seeds
for some of our vegetables on March 6th.
These seeds will be germinated inside, under the grow lights in the
hallway near our room. Once it is
warm enough, we will move them to the greenhouse and then transplant them in
the beds outside. We will need
extra hands in the coming months to help make this service project a
success. If you are interested in
helping please let me know. (There
is no need for any garden experience to help!)
Enjoy
the weekend.
Upcoming Events
Wednesday,
February 27th- Curriculum Day
Thursday-Friday
March 7-8- Parent Teacher Conferences
Friday March 15-
Disco Dance
Monday March
18-22- Book Fair
Monday March
25-Friday March 29- Spring Break
Monday April 1-
Teacher Work Day- No School for Students
