Newsletter 6-6-13

Ms. Little’s Third Grade Beacon
June 6, 2013

Upcoming & Important Events:

·        Tuesday, June 11^th – Field Trip to Middlesex Savings Bank

·        Thursday, June 13^th – Field Trip to Erikson’s

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

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

Classroom News:

Cherokee: Last week we learned a new type of poem called a Cinquain. They have five lines. The first line is the title. It can only have one word. Line two is a description and it has two words. Line three is an action and it has three words. Line four is a feeling phrase and it has four words. Line five again is one word and is a synonym for the title. I wrote mine about models.

Seanalee: We did Tigercast News at recess. Mrs. Duddy’s class did it. I was videotaped and so was Phaydan. There were a lot of people in line. There was a rule that there could only be three people from each class.

David: Yesterday we wrote Ballad poems. Ballads are poems that always have rhythm and usually rhyme. If the ballad is longer than one stanza, every stanza must have the same rhyming pattern. They also have to have the same amount of lines in every stanza.

Phaydan: On Friday last week we went to Mr. Thomas’s classroom to play a trivia game. The questions were all true or false. He had remotes for each group. My group was Emily, Nathan, Tatyiana, Tyler, and me. There were 8 groups. We were group 4. Everybody had a lot of fun. There were a lot of questions.  

Tatyiana: Last week we played our recorders in Music so we needed a music sheet. Then we had to record a video so Miss Lilley was going to videotape me. We had to line up because we needed to leave so Miss Lilley said we had to take one more video so we did. Then we watched the video and it was awesome.

Nathan: Last week we learned about Diamante poems. The first line is the person’s first name. The second line is two words that describe the person. The third line is three –ing words about the person. The fourth line is four nouns that are related to the person. The fifth line is three words that describe how the person felt about the things they did. The sixth line is two more describing words. The seventh line is the person’s last name.

Jameson: An artist named Erin Sweeney came to our class. She taught us how to make booklets. They were autobiographies. We folded a lot of pages. It took a long time to fold the booklets. It was a fun activity.

Logan: We wrote Limerick poems. Limericks are always five lines and are usually funny, and they tell a story. I wrote I saw a black and white soccer ball. I had to call my non-answerable mother. My mother did not answer so I called my brother. Then he said, “Put it in your hall.” Have a good weekend. J

Tyler: Last Friday in Gym we first did a relay race. Then we had some stations to do. One of the stations was hula hooping and one was jump roping. Another station was wall ball and another was a hard wall ball.

Lily: We’re reading Swindle for read aloud. Right now the boys are breaking into S. Wendell Palomino’s house to steal back the baseball card! I think they’re going to get trapped in the house. I like the characters in this book. I can’t wait to find out the ending!

Daniel: On Monday we had Art. In Art we drew face cards. Mrs. Santillo ironed our picture on our coloring bags. Then we got to fill them. Now we can draw wherever we want.

Colin: We made plant mini posters in Science. They had the life cycle of a plant on them. My plant was an apple tree. I like my poster! The order of the plant life cycle goes seedling, sprout, young adult (teenager), and adult.

Seamus: Last week we had Library. Mrs. Patino said that today was the last day to check out books. She also said we could keep our biography books for longer. It’s really fun when we play on the computers. We got to do Type to Learn 3.

Sophia: Last week in Writing we wrote humorous poems. Humorous poems are supposed to be funny. We had to write one about our topic or category. My category was colors. One example of another category is monsters. This is my poem:

Yellow said to red, “Never eat your bed.”

Blue said to green, “Never eat a lima bean.”

Purple and orange are in a movie scene.

Ali: Yesterday one of the pupils in our class made the morning work. The author was Nathan. The problem was there were 237 rocks on the beach. 146 of them got washed away. How many rocks were left? I subtracted and got the answer. It was 91 rocks.

Jesse: Mr. Mark from the Maynard Public Library came in to our class. He talked about reading 2 ½ hours a week and you can get to spin the prize wheel. If you read enough hours a week you are entered to win a bike. Some of the prizes are French fries, donuts, pizza, golf, and Friendly’s. Also we could see animals at the library. When Mr. Mark came in we played games like hangman and blocks. We stacked the blocks up to see who could balance all of them first.

Brenna: We had an assembly last week. Some teachers acted out a play from a book. The book was called Blue. The characters were Red, Blue, Yellow, and Purple. It was a very good play. It was about bullying.

Molly: Last week on Tuesday we had Up Day. We walked up to Fowler. We had a 4^th grade partner. I was in Mrs. Gulezian’s class. My partners were Robbi and Hannah. In Mrs. Gulezian’s class we had Science, lunch, and recess. The cafeteria was cool. I bought something from the Snack Shack.

Elizabeth: We played the I Have, Who Has? game with time. First, everybody gets a card. Somebody has the “start” card and somebody has the “end” card. Then, the person who has the “start” card says, “Who has 9:15?” Then whoever has 9:15 on the clock on their card says, “I have 9:15, who has 6:20?” and so on until the end. And they say, “I have 6:10, this is the end.”

Emily: Last week we went to Mr. Mehigan’s publishing party for their realistic fiction stories. When we went some of the books were very long and some were short. The one that I read first was McKenna’s. Then I read Natalie’s, Becca’s, and Gabriel’s. After we were done reading the story we had to leave a comment on the comment sheet.

Katie: Last week in Math we learned about elapsed time. We played a game that Ms. Little made up. You have a Judy clock and you pick a card that has a time. Next you make that time on your Judy clock. Then you pick another card that says an amount of hours or minutes later or earlier. After that you see what time you got when you change your time to match your number and your partner has to figure out how much time has passed.

Ms. Little: Thank you to families who have contributed shared classroom supplies throughout the year. We are running low on tissues, extra snacks (goldfish, saltines, graham crackers), and pump bottles of hand sanitizer. Any donations would be greatly appreciated.  Enjoy the weekend.