Weather Make-Up Days

I know so many of you are anxious to find out when we will be making up those 5 student days that were missed due to the snow. Students will now come on scheduled weather days and teacher inservice days.

Weather Make Up days:
February 21
March 11
April 22
April 25
May 27

Please make note of these changes! Hopefully we will remain snow and ice free these next few months!!!

Thanks for all you are doing at home! My class is doing great!

Welcome Back!

I hope everyone enjoyed our surprise "Winter Break" last week! We are going to be VERY busy these next few months as we prepare for testing - SAT and ARMT. I do my very best to get all of our daily work sent home each day, and need your help as parents with this. :) If you see that your child has missed many problems, or had difficulty with something, PLEASE go over this at home. You may begin to see on some of the work a note that says something like "Rework for HW", please take time to do this. We are beginning to add in extra math, to help make sure students are ready for testing, which will also add in a few extra Math homeworks each week. These MAY NOT be on the weekly HW chart, so please check your child's folder daily to make sure all HW is completed. Thank you in advance for all of your help! You will be very thankful when we have WONDERFUL test scores from our class! :)

I am sending home a HW chart today, but you will need to move things forward a day. Here is our HW assignments for this week:

Tuesday
Spelling - ABC order (in cursive)
Reading - Read this week's story (page 40-53) and Fluency Passage
Math - Math Facts practice (5 minutes)
Science - Study for Bean Seed Test (Study Guide in folder today)

Wednesday
Spelling - Words 3x each in cursive
Reading - Fluency Passage
Math - Math Facts (5 minutes)
Science - Study for test

Thursday
Spelling - Words 3x each in cursive
Reading - Fluency Passage
Math - Math Facts (5 minutes)
Science - Study for test

Spelling, Math Facts, and Science (bean) test will be given on Friday, January 21.

Reminders for this Week

Christmas Lunch for grades 3-5 will be this Thursday, December 9. Reservations and money are due TOMORROW (Tuesday, December 7). No late reservations will be accepted.

Ornaments are due tomorrow, Tuesday, December 7. This will count as a 100 point Social Studies grade. The winner will get 10 bonus points, and that ornament will be on display on the tree in the front foyer.

Our class will go to the Santa Shop on Tuesday and Thursday this week. If you child would like to do some Christmas shopping, please send money to school with them on either of those two days.

It's Christmas!!!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas around our classroom and school! We decided to take a class picture by our school tree today, and it turned out great! I sure have a good looking bunch of third graders! We also had a surprise visitor arrive in our classroom today...Jingle Bells the Elf is back! He will be with us until Christmas, watching over the class and reporting what he sees back to Santa each night. Hopefully he will be able to report that all of my students have been nice!






Our class will go to the Santa Shop next Tuesday and Thursday, so if your child would like to shop, please send money on either of those two days.

News

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving break and enjoyed having the week off. I sure did! This year, I have lots to be thankful for. I am so thankful to have a wonderful family, great friends, and an AWESOME job! I am very thankful for each and every one of my students. This year I have something else to be very thankful for...I am expecting my first child! I am sure most of you have heard from your children, but I wanted to confirm ;) because we all know not to believe EVERY thing we hear from children! I am due June 29, so hopefully I won't miss any time away from your children!

Field Trip

Here are some pictures from our field trip to American Village. The class had a great time!

Happy Veteran's Day!

On Tuesday, we had a very nice Veteran's Day program at school. We are all very thankful of the brave men and women who serve, or have served our counrty. Here is a clip from the news that tells about our program.



We will be out of school tomorrow, November 11 for Veteran's Day. All of our regular Thursday testing will be done on Friday.

Please remember to send can food items to school Friday with you children. For every 5 cans your child brings in, they will get 5 bonus points to add on to any test grade!!! This is a great way to help others as well as help some grades!!!