The Last Full Week of School...WHAT?!?!?!?!

     It is very difficult to believe that this is the last full week of school. We have been so busy the last few weeks.  Hopefully you have had a sense of our packed schedule from our Friday Letters! This week we will be finishing our fabulous Power Point presentations. The students have learned how to create a presentation, format slides, insert backgrounds, format font, download and save photographs, insert photos, and of course input their research in interesting ways. This week we will have fun with transitions, animations and special effects. I think you will be very impressed with what your third grader has put together. I hope that you can join us next Monday, June 17th from 4:30-5:30 to celebrate our hard work. This is an open house, feel free to come and go at your convenience. We all know what a busy time of the year this is.

    We are also learning a lot about Japan and Japanese culture. The students are enjoying the video postcards that we have shown depicting authentic Japanese life. In science, we will be completing our Electricity unit. The students have learned about parallel and series circuits. We will discuss and experiment with a model heater and resistance this week. Also, we are doing a short Bill Peet author study right now. It is a fun way to end the year in reading! 

     Enjoy your week!

Happy Mother's Day

We were all very excited about our Mother's Day projects! I hope that you enjoyed reading them. The students put a lot of effort into their articles!

      This week we will continue our book partner work. Each student has been assigned a book and a partner. They do their reading and a portion of a written assignment independently and then meet with their partner to discuss their reading and complete the written task. We will also continue to practice division. We will explore remainders and may even take a look at some simple long division. We will begin division timed tests on Friday, May 17th. We will begin with 2's and 3's. In social studies, we are learning about different cultures. We have looked at Nigeria and Vietnam. This week we will learn about Finland. 

     We will begin our research on our assigned countries this Friday. I am asking each student to bring in at least one resource to use, by Friday, May17. We will research our countries and then the students will create a power point presentation on his/her country. We will be inviting you in to view these in June. There will be more information about a date and time for this event coming home soon!

    We are enjoying our science unit about electricity. We will continue this work for the next few weeks.