Newsletter 4-25-13

Ms. Little’s Third Grade Beacon
April 25, 2013

Upcoming & Important Events:

·        Friday, April 26^th – Dismissal at 12:30

Classroom News:

Molly: Yesterday and last Friday Mr. Fleming came in and did math with us. Last week we did an activity with tiles. Yesterday we worked together as a table group. We were working on perimeter and area.

Logan: We made area and perimeter dream houses in Math. We took a big paper or a little piece of paper. I made mine 10 stories high. On the paper there were little squares. I used all big papers. Then, we had to count the area and perimeter.

Tyler: On Monday we did our spelling test. So first we had to find a partner and the words we practiced over the week. We had lots of weeks to learn the words. If we get all of the words right we get 100 percent. When you are done you put your words in the finished work bin.

Cherokee: In Writing Workshop we wrote We’re Blooming essays. We wrote about what we liked and what was challenging for us in third grade. I really liked it. We showed them at open house. I hope we do it again.

Nathan: We have new morning work notebooks because we basically used our old notebooks up. Here is the first question in our new notebook: There were five ducks in the pond. Each duck laid four eggs. How many eggs did they lay altogether?  We have morning work notebooks because it is easier and it would just waste paper if we used slips of paper.

Madison: In Social Studies we made posters of very important people. My group did Ben Franklin. Our group was Nathan, Logan, Emily, and me. It took a long time because we had to color it and write the important things about that person. Then we presented them to the class. Ben Franklin did a lot of important things. He figured out that lightning was electricity.

David: So far in A Series of Unfortunate Events, Aunt Josephine has jumped out the window and supposedly died. But, she left the Baudelaire orphans a note. The note had lots of bad spelling and grammar mistakes. But, something wasn’t right because Aunt Josephine is obsessed with spelling and grammar. Klaus noticed what was wrong and thought that Aunt Josephine was trying to tell them something. Klaus is trying to find out fast because Aunt Josephine just put them in the care of Captain Sham, aka Count Olaf. What will happen next?

Colin: Mrs. Cohen came in to read to us! She read Click Clack Moo: Cows That Type. She also read Kindness is Cooler, Mrs. Ruler. The Click Clack Moo was funny. In Click Clack Moo, cows take a typewriter and write letters to the farmer. And in Kindness is Cooler, Mrs. Ruler, the kids got 100 hearts of kindness!

Phaydan: In Social Studies we went to Mrs. Messina’s classroom. We watched social studies movies. They were called Liberty’s Kids. They were about 10 minutes each. In one of them it had Phyllis Wheatley.

Lily: In Time for Kids we read about classical music and a conductor named JoAnn Falletta. She has conducted orchestras. JoAnn is an interesting lady. My mom likes classical music.

Daniel: After lunch last Friday we had rest time. During rest time we could read or rest. We had 30 minutes to read or rest. We could bring a blanket, a pillow, or a stuffed animal. We could rest with one rug square. We got to have rest time for filling up the marble jar.

Jesse: We went to Music and we started Earth Day commercials. We have 4 weeks to do them. My group used drums. Our group hasn’t figured out what we’re doing. Some people are going outside to do it. Next time we go to Music we have to do our video.

Elizabeth: In Art we started the drawing unit. We drew lions. Mrs. Santillo gave us a red paper and a pen. She also gave us pictures of lions. She walked us through step by step on how to draw a lion. Then we had to draw another lion or make a background. Then we got a paper with lines and we had to draw them the best we could. Last, we got a folder to put the drawings in.

Sophia: Last week we had April vacation. We went home Friday and didn’t have school for a week. Some people stayed home. Some people went away! The boys want another week of vacation.

Brenna: We read Kindness is Cooler, Mrs. Ruler. We also saw a play of it. It was about being kind. The setting was at school. It was very good. One of the teachers that were in the play was Ms. Laughman. The next one was Mr. Mehigan. It was super.

Jameson: We played relay races at Gym. We had fun.  To play, we have to get the buckets and sprint to the center white line. Then we have to sprint to the back line. Then we bring the bucket back to the beginning.

Ali: The Thursday before vacation we had Open House. For Open House, Ms. Little gave us a list. The list was for the things we should show our parents. One of the things that was on the list was our symmetrical butterflies. If you fold them in half, they are exactly the same. That’s why they are symmetrical.

Seanalee: We went to the Book Fair during Library. I bought two books. One was Sea Creatures and the other one was True Ghost Stories. If you didn’t have money you could read or look around. It was fun to read and look around. Everyone had fun!

Emily: The week before April vacation we went to an assembly. The assembly was about Tigercast News and a Kindness is Cooler, Mrs. Ruler skit. The Tigercast News was put on by Mrs. Messina’s class. In the Tigercast news they interviewed preschool, kindergarten, 1^st grade, 2^nd grade, and 3^rd grade. In the Kindness is Cooler, Mrs. Ruler play Mr. Mehigan was Mrs. Ruler and it was funny. My teacher in kindergarten was the reader and she read the real book of Kindness is Cooler, Mrs. Ruler.

Ms. Little: Thank you to everyone who was able to attend Open House! Students were proud to show families around our classroom and the hard work they’ve done so far this year. Enjoy the weekend.