Last week in March!

    Hopefully everyone enjoyed a nice long weekend. Can you believe this is the last full week in March? We will be working hard this week preparing for our upcoming Wax Museum. The students have read their biographies, taken incredible notes, and organized their notes. This week we will write a first person narrative and a short speech. While most of the work for this project is done in school I do need your help with two parts.
    First, the students will need to dress up like their person on the day of the Wax Museum (Thursday, April 2nd). This does not need to be an elaborate costume. Please use items you can find around the house. For example, if your child is George Washington he/she could wear black pants and a white dress shirt. If your child is J.K. Rowling he/she could have a copy of a Harry Potter book on their desk. We have been doing this project in third grade for a number of years and many of the older students in our building have outfits/accessories that they used for their wax museum.
     Also, the student will need to memorize a short speech they will recite on the day of the Wax Museum. This speech will come home this Friday. Please have your child practice this speech during the weekend and the next week leading up to the Wax Museum. Thank you very much for you help and support. I hope to see you on Thursday, April 2nd at 2:30!

This week:

Reader's Workshop
     It is all about Biography this week. We will create an organizer for our first person narrative and we will draft. We will also write our speeches and create a timeline of our person's life.

Writer's Workshop
     We will work on answering short response questions in preparation for the ELA. We will also revise an essay we wrote last week.

Math
    This is our last week for fractions. This week we will compare fractions on a number line and explore mixed numbers.
    We will also begin a unit on geometry. We will be looking at lines, line segments, angles and different classifications of triangles.

Social Studies
    We will begin our Ancient Egypt unit! We will look at the location of Egypt and the impact the Nile River had on the life of the people who lived on it's banks. We will also learn about hieroglyphics.

Science
     We will complete our Solar System project this week. We have written about each planet and now it is time to assembly our projects. Please be sure to look for them when you visit for the Wax Museum!

Spelling
    Our lists will be coming home tomorrow. Please try your best to review this words during the week. Remember the students need to use the word correctly in a sentence.

FIELD TRIP!!!
    We will be going on our field trip to the Palace Theater this Wednesday. We will be leaving school first thing in the morning. Please try to arrive at school on time. We will not be able to hold the buses.

Some photos from our author visit!

Thank you to our most recent Mystery Reader, Mrs. Martin!