Tales From Third Grade: February 16th to 20th

Hello Everyone!

I hope you have all had a great weekend!!

Don’t forget that our Spring Auction is just around the corner on Saturday March 7th.  Each student is asked to raise $67.00 dollars on or before March 2nd.  If all the students in the class raise the $67.00 we will get a week’s worth of dress down days in May.  The first class to have everyone reach the $67.00 goal by March 2nd wins a pizza party.  We have 4 students who have reached this goal.  We can do THIS!!!!!!!!!  

 

Monthly Project Due Dates

New Monthly Project:  SUPER simple I promise.  February Pictures should be of your child and a person on People that they LOVE.  Please have pictures in February 6th.  Be sure to include the names of all people in the picture.   

February Book Report:  We will be centered around a historic fiction Book.   Directions were sent home on January 30th along with a list of possible titles.  I have encouraged the class to avoid the Magic Treehouse series.  Book Reports will begin February 23rd.  

February Poems:  Presentations will be February 19th.

February Prayer:  Prayers will be respectfully recited on February 9th.  

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Important Dates to Remember for the week:

Monday February 16th: No School ~ Enjoy the long weekend

Tuesday February 17th Please join us at 8:00am Mass if your schedule allows.  Remember to have your child eat a good breakfast and use the washroom before coming to school.

Wednesday February 18th:  We will be going to 10:00 am Mass to receive Ashes

Thursday February 19th: .  Poem Presentations

Friday, February 13th:  Stations of the Cross at 2:30.  Please join each Friday if your schedule allows.  If you do plan to join us for Stations, please let me know if you would like your child to bring their things to Church so that they can leave with you afterwards.   

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We will be working hard in the classroom as we:

Religion:  The class will be learning about season of LENT. 

Social Studies:  We finished a unit in Science last week about Chemical and Physical changes.  We are now going to return to Social Studies and learn about the different reigons in our country.  

Math:   This week the class will work with Multiplication and Division problems with factors 2, 4, 8, 5 and 10.

ReadingOur story this week is “Paul Bunyan and the Flapjack”  The students will be learning the meanings of these vocabulary terms:lumberjack, enormous and sprinkled.

Spelling:   This week, the students will be working with review words from Unit 13, 14, 15, 16 and 17.  

Phonics:  The students started Unit 4 in our Phonics Series.  This Unit will have the students reviewing and learning about: contractions, adding -s and -es to the ends of words to make them plural.  We will also work with the inflectional endings -s, -ed and -ing.  The students will learn about the meanings of the suffixes: -ful, -less, -y, -ly, -ness, -er, -able, -ible, -ion, -ment and -er when they are added to base words.     

 

Our trip to FEED MY STARVING CHILDREN:

Our Sibling pictures

 

 

The Fun we had!

 

Our CHEMICAL CHANGE Experiment:  We used water, baking soda and black berries to create our designs

 

 

 

 

 

Our Valentine Party

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

About the author

My name is Lisa Gearen. I started teaching at St. Cletus in 2003. I taught first grade for 14 years and now teach 3rd. I have a bachelors degree in Communication and a Masters in Elementary Education. I received both degrees from Concordia University. I also have an associates degree in Early Childhood Education as well as being a Certified Catechist.
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