January 28th

Happy Monday Everyone,
We had a wonderful Grandparents Day!  Thank you to everyone who attended!  Please enjoy the photos.

This Thursday is our field trip to the Tampa Bay History Museum.  We are very excited to visit since we studied about native Florida tribes.  If you are planning to meet us at the museum please let me know so that we can look for you.

Also, we are having a meeting in Ms. LaDuke's classroom tomorrow at 11:30 to discuss the third grade program as well as the infamous USA cake.  If you are interested in helping with decorations for the program or helping with the cake, please attend this informative meeting.  

This Friday we will have a spelling and vocabulary test.  

Wishing you all a wonderful week!

January 22nd

Happy Tuesday!
Some School News...
Ident-a-Kid is here tomorrow.  If you would like this service, please send in the form by tomorrow.

Grandparents Day will take place this Friday.  There is a noon dismissal on that day.  If your child does not have a grandparent or special friend, I will be happy to pair them up with someone who does.

Conference Day is Thursday, February 7.  I am sending home a form for you to select your top choices for days/times.  Please return as soon as possible with your selections so that we can secure a time.

Class Picture Day is Wednesday, February 26.

The Oldie Goldie Book Sale will be Friday, March 22.  You may want to have your child go through books that they no longer want to donate to this great event.

Class News...
We will have a spelling test and a math test this Friday morning before grandparents arrive.  A practice math test will take place on Thursday and sent home for review.

Our new vocabulary words are:
attitude, confess, defend, gradual, hint, individual, malice, malicious, misery, miserable, solution, survey

Our field trip to the Tampa Bay History Museum will take place on Thursday, January 31.  Thank you to Charlene H., who will chaperone!  If you would like to attend, please let me know.  You can join us there and pay the admission at the door.  We would love to have you!

Wishing you all a wonderful week!

January 14, 2013

Hello Everyone!
It was nice to see so many of our parents at Town Meeting today.  The children did a nice job presenting information about Martin Luther King, Jr.  I was very proud of them!

This Friday we will have a spelling test as well as a quiz over vocabulary words.

Other class news...
We will finish Sarah, Plain and Tall this week and have a reading quiz over the material.  We are also continuing our work with writing realistic fiction.  In math we are working with tenths, hundredths, and thousandths.  Our unit in Social Studies will focus on Native American groups in the United States.  We will begin a unit in Science called Motion and Design.  The students will be working in small groups during this unit.  They will not only learn scientific concepts, but they will also need to cooperate with one another.
Our first field trip will be on Thursday, January 31.  We will go to the Tampa Bay History Museum.  I can take one chaperone.  The first person to respond to this request will get admission free of charge and be able to ride with us on the school bus.  Additional chaperones can attend, but will need to pay their own admission as well as drive themselves due to limited space on the bus.

School news...
There is no school next Monday due to our observance of Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
Ident a Kid is here on Wednesday, January 23.
Grandparents Day will take place on Friday, January 25.  There will be a noon dismissal on that day.

Wishing you all a wonderful week!

January 7, 2013

Happy New Year!
I hope everyone had a wonderful break.  I certainly enjoyed having time to travel as well as catch up on some things at home.  But, it's also a great feeling to be back at work!  We have a lot to do, and I'm eager for the children to begin some new units of instruction.
We are beginning a new writing unit focusing on realistic fiction.  We will be using the read aloud Because of Winn Dixie as well as the class novel Sarah Plain and Tall to enhance our reading and writing workshops.
Our new vocabulary words are: contain, container, digest, finicky, habit, hinge, marsh, marshy, nursery, rely, reliable, spine, thrive
We will have a spelling test this Friday.  The children will also have a social studies this Friday focusing on Waterways of the United States.  Please look at the map skills sent home today to refer to the waterways.
Our math lessons this week will be about very large numbers and an introduction to decimal notation for tenths and hundredths.
We were very fortunate to have a fun-filled and informative science lesson from Mr. Schneider.  He used the scientific method with the students to demonstrate chemicals and chemical reactions.  The students loved it!  They also loved visiting his room and feeling like "high schoolers"!  Thank you, Mr. Schneider!

Wishing you all a wonderful week!