Important Dates in May

May 3      K Registration
4               No school (Teachers’ Meeting)
7               Walking Field Trip (Afternoon after lunch)
8              Sports Attire Day

11             In school field trip
18            Talent Show
22            Reward Day/Luau/Field Day
23            Award Day
25            Teachers’ Workday ( no school)
26            Abbreviated/Report Card Day

April 5 Spring Picture Day Money for the pictures must be paid on or before that day.

April 6 Good Friday No School

April 23-27 T-Cap Tests I am asking for volunteers to send a healthy snack for all the room on Mon. – Thurs. of this week. It can be cheese and crackers, granola bars, dry cereal, etc. Please do not send anything that will need a fork or spoon or that is messy. We would also appreciate a drink if it is a boxed drink. Please do not send anything that needs to be poured into a cup. We are also looking for volunteers who can be proctors. You will not be able to proctor in your child’s room, but another room might need a proctor.

Thanks for helping your child study for the T-Caps. It will really make a difference.

Some important dates to remember for February:

Feb. 20 No School President’s Day

Feb. 24 Wacky Tacky Day

Feb. 24-March 4 Book Fair

Feb. 28 Nashville Opera

March 5 Read Me Day

Dates to Remember:

Jan. 24 Bank Day
Jan. 27 Box Tops Collection
Jan. 30 Last Day to order PTO t-shirts

Dear Parents,

I want to give you a heads-up about what we will be studying from now until Christmas.

Science-We will be having a test on Thurs., Dec.1 over pp. 118-170. The vocabulary words are desert, forest, ocean, wetland, camouflage, nocturnal,mimicry, hibernate, migrate, natural disaster, species, exotic species, invasive species population, thriving, threatened, endangered, extinct, and fossil. The review is found on pp. 174-175. The next unit will be about the planets and space.

English-We have been studying verbs, and we will continue until Christmas. We have also studied a friendly letter. We will be writing a letter to Santa and will be sending it home for mailing.

Social Studies-We have been studying latitude and longitude as well as physical maps. We will be studying land forms next.

Math- We have been learning the multiplication facts 0-5 and 10 and 11. We will concentrate on these facts until Christmas and will continue afterwards on the remaining facts. Please drill your children on these facts.

Reading-We studied all about Thanksgiving last week. This week we will be studying the story The Jones Family Express. The skill is inference. Please read 20 minutes each night with your child. Perfect practice makes perfect.

Spelling this week is Unit 17.

From now until christmas we will be having several important tests. These include a Constructed Response test, Writing Prompt test, and Math and Reading Benchmark tests. Please make sure your child gets plenty of sleep and is on time each day. Good attendance is important because many of these tests are quite lengthy, and we may
not be able to make them up before Christmas.

There will be more information to come this week about Christmas plans.

I hope you had a wonderful Thanksgiving. Special thanks to Sgt. LeMieux who came to talk to our class on Veterans Day.

Dear Parents,

Here are some dates of upcoming events:

Wed. Sept. 28 Report Card Day
Thurs. Sept. 29 Picture Day
Awards Day 1:15
Thurs. Oct. 20 Parent-Teacher
Conferences
Fri. Oct. 21 Fun Run Kickoff
Fri. Nov. 11 Fun Run

This week we will be learning about inherited and learned traits.

Math Graphing (bar graphs)

SS Communities (rural, suburban, and
urban)

English Singular and plural nouns
Capitalization of proper nouns

Reading Summarizing with a non-fiction
selection about the solar system

Spelling Unit 10 (ou, ow sounds)

It is still not too late to contribute to the cost of Weekly Reader. So far we have collected $51 and the cost is $118.

Thanks for all your support. Your children are precious to me.

Welcome to the 3rd Grade at Castle Heights Elementary.  We are currently changing our web pages, so this is the first opportunity I have had to contact you through a web page.  I can’t believe that a month has already passed!  I want to give you an update on our studies so far.  We are solving real world problems using addition with renaming.  We are getting ready to start a unit on subtraction.

We have hopefully learned where the continents and oceans are.  We are discussing the differences between service businesses and product businesses.  Some of the vocabulary we are using include culture, community, citizen, law, and government.  I am planning to have a guest speaker who is a friend of mine who traveled to China to enrich our meaning of culture.

In science we have been studying plant and animal structures.  We are getting ready to learn about food chains and food webs.

In  English we have learned the 4 types of sentences using the identification terms of Interrogative, Declarative, Imperative, and Exclamatory.  We have identified the complete subject and predicate of sentences and have dissected them into their parts.

We have studied different spellings of the long and short vowels.

In Reading class we have been concentrating on the main idea of a story, summarizing, and we are beginning to learn about story structure (beginning, which is the problem; the middle, which is the rising action; and the resolution which is the problem solved.  We have also studied different genres of literature (realistic fiction and non-fiction)

As you can see, we have been very busy.

Upcoming events include Open House on Sept. 15

Bookfair on Sept. 9-16

I look forward to seeing you at Open House!