Newsletter 6-13-13

Ms. Little’s Third Grade Beacon
June 13, 2013

Upcoming & Important Events:

·        Friday, June 14^th – Publishing Party 1:00 – 1:30 PM

·        Monday, June 17^th – Field trip to Middlesex Savings Bank

·        Tuesday, June 18^th – Wax Museum Biography Presentations 1:45 – 2:15 PM

·        Wednesday, June 19^th – Field Day

·        Thursday, June 20^th – Ice Cream Social

·        Friday, June 21^st – Last day of school – Dismissal at 11:25

Classroom News:

Daniel: In Science we learned about food from plants. Some foods are roots like potatoes and carrots. Some foods are flowers like cauliflower and broccoli. Some foods are stems like celery. We are done with plants and we took our Science folders home.

Jesse: We had the third grade concert last week. We sang and played recorder. We watched a movie while we waited. Our parents listened to us on the screen and we were watching the movie. Everyone clapped so loud. Ms. Lilley said we were awesome. She said we did better than the 4^th graders did last year.

Phaydan: In Math we played a time scoot game. We got to pick partners if we wanted to. This is how we played time scoot. We had a paper that had letters up to X on it. We went around and looked at the cards on the desks and then tried to figure out what time each clock said. Then we had to write the time down on the paper with the letters.

Cherokee: For Listen to Reading in Literacy we read Verdi. It is about a snake named Verdi. He was yellow and black. He was really fast and there were two green snakes that were really sleepy and hungry. Verdi didn’t know that one day he would turn green too. One time, Verdi was on top of the tree then he jumped off a high tree and he fell and half of his body turned green. When he was with the green snakes they told him that once they were yellow. Then one day Verdi turned completely green and he found some yellow snakes and they did really cool tricks together. That’s how it ended.

Colin: We are on chapter 14 of Swindle. I like Swindle. Griffin just gave S. Wendell Palomino a ticket to a hockey game to get him out of his house. It was addressed to fake Uncle Archie but Swindle kept it anyways. I predict that Griffin will sneak in the house and light the safe on fire. Have a good day!

Katie: Monday we practiced our biography speeches. First, we glued our speeches to hard paper. Next, we picked a partner and we went with our partner. Then we read our speech over and over again. Last, we switched partners if we wanted to but if we didn’t we could make a different Literacy choice.

Tatyiana: When we made our June calendars we wrote the days of the week. We had to write the dates. We got to decorate the calendar. We also wrote birthdays and special activities. This is the last calendar for the school year.

Madison: In Music we played games the whole time because we have been doing great. We played Highety Piety and Charlie over the Ocean. Ms. Lilley said that the next time in Music we will play more games. We voted for the games we played. We all had fun!

Molly: Last week Mrs. Gulezian came into our class. She is a fourth grade teacher. She came to teach us about Fowler. She asked if we had questions. Some people asked questions like, “Should I be nervous?”

Ali: Last week we went to Mr. Thomas’s classroom to see a play. The play was about the Colonial Times. In their play they threw paper snowballs because they were reenacting the Intolerable Acts. It was a standing and sitting play. A standing and sitting play is a play where the person who is talking stands and the other people sit with no stage.

Seanalee: We finished Spelling and now we don’t have to take spelling tests. We can make up words to do spelling if we want to. We can do any spelling activity with the words we make up. We brought our spelling notebooks home.

Nathan: At the last assembly last week we had a special activity. We had to sit in a line. There was a bucket. We had to pass classroom paws. Once it got to the front, the person would put the paw in the bucket and walk it back and the teacher would give them the paw. Then they would pass it up. Once they were done the teacher would stand in front of the class and hold up the bucket. Once every class was done all the teachers dumped the paws in a big bucket and that would represent all the paws we earned this year.

Jameson: Last week at Library we got to play on the computers. We went on abcya.com, brainpopjr.com, and starfall.com. It is so fun at Library because we get to use the computers to play games. On abcya.com you get to play Snowball 2. On starfall.com you can learn to read. You go on starfall and choose learn to read, and then you can pick a book to read. On brainpopjr.com you can watch science and math videos about things like flowers and seeds or multiplication.

Lily: A bank visitor from Middlesex Savings Bank came to our classroom last week. She talked about what we were going to see next Monday. She also talked about the Fun Club. The Fun Club will give you a snack if you deposit money into your bank account. I like the bank and I can’t wait to go there!

Seamus: This week we are writing final copies for our poetry on sheets of paper. We are going to type some of them and put them in a book. We already wrote 4. The four were Mentiras, Ballads, Free Verse, and Diamante. We also decorated them.

Brenna: We read with our first grade buddies last week. We went to their class. Last week was our last week of buddies. We read with them. We usually go on Wednesday. We have fun because we get to see them.

Emily: Last week and this week we did cursive. Last week we learned the letters Z and Y. This week we learned X, W, and V. After we do the letters in cursive we have to go back and do any pages before that. The letter I think was the hardest was Z.

Logan: We filled up the marble jar again. For the reward we had a special snack and a dance party. We got to pick a song that we wanted to dance to. We all picked good songs. Have a good weekend.

Sophia: In Gym we first did relay races. Then we played a game of tag. Then we did free choice fitness. That is where there is a basketball station, a jump rope station, a bowling station, and a hula hoop station. Music was playing the whole time.

Tyler: Last Monday we got to pick new seats and my table had all of the boys except for two. So we made a plan and decided whose we liked the best. After we made our plan we moved our desks around and we got to sit where we wanted to be. I sat across from a friend and next to a friend and it’s pretty cool.

Elizabeth: On Monday we went to Art. In At we drew butterflies. We were working on symmetrical drawings. Then when we were done we could do eye exercise #5 or the challenge. The challenge was all of these little detailed pictures that you have to draw.

Ms. Little: This will be our last class newsletter.  We hope our newsletter kept you informed and updated as to what was happening in our terrific third grade classroom this year. Enjoy the weekend and have a fabulous summer.