Week of February 22

Monday, February 22-Friday February 26 Spirit Week and Spring Food Drive Bring in food for the pantry and dress up for the day!

Thursday, February 25, Science Test

Thursday, February 25, 6-7:30 p.m. Wine in the Vine This is an auction item and all 3rd grade parents are invited. Please contact Cindy Wissinger or Katie Gregg to reserve a spot. Please Note this is an adult only event.

Friday, February 26, Spelling Test

Tuesday, March 1, 11:30-1:00 Rainforest Open House

Thursday, March 3-Friday, March 4, NO SCHOOL/Parent Teacher Conferences

Homework:

Monday: Read, Study Math facts using Reflex Math, study spelling words, study for science test

Tuesday: Read, Study Math facts using Reflex Math, study spelling words, study for science test

Wednesday: Read, Study Math facts using Reflex Math, study spelling words, study for science test

Thursday: Read, Study Math facts using Reflex Math, study spelling words

Friday: Read, Enjoy the weekend

RAINFOREST NEWS:

The rainforest is looking wonderful. Many thanks to our two Cristo Rey students who have assembled the rainforest in the commons. Thank you to you all for making such incredible animals for the rainforest. It is amazing to see them all in their habitat! A huge thank you to the parents who have positioned the animals in the forest. They spent several hours doing that.

The students will learn facts about each others' animals this week, then start giving tours next week to other students in the school. If a student has siblings and/or cousins he/she will have the opportunity to give them a tour.

Invitations to the Open House on Tuesday, March 1 from 11:30-1 have been mailed. We do not mail these to you. We know you will be there!

If anyone is unable to come to the Open House we can schedule tours at other times. Just ask us.

Class News:

Language Arts, Reading, Social Studies:

Students continue to work on their rainforest animal research paper.  This week we are finishing our animal research paper, working on an introduction and conclusion, and a cover page. Students will also be busy typing a works cited page. In reading students are engaged in reading independent rainforest resource books. Students have new rainforest spelling words this week. With all theme spelling words, students study for one week and take the test on Friday.  The new words were printed and put in student back packs today.  Students also have these new words written in their planners.  Students are also finishing last minute work on their Rainforest Layers project.  Students typed informational sentences and have glued these into their layer booklet.  Students are also in the process of finishing up a poetry book about the rainforest and their specific animal.  It is all things rainforest in third grade!

Math : 

Students are beginning this week working on telling elapsed time using a number line.  After one lesson on Monday, students have a good grasp of this new skill.  Students will also get a lot of practice telling the time from ending time to beginning time.  Going back in time can be a bit more difficult but with practice, I’m hopeful students will become more fluent. An example would be: If we finished eating dinner at 7:35 and dinner took 28 minutes, what time did we start dinner?  Students worked these problems on a number line and a white board and they did great!

Science :

In science this week students will finish their folders for the Rainforest Open House. This includes illustrating a rainforest food web or three food chains. In addition students will learn about deforestation, and they will write a paragraph about that. We will also review the many products that come from the rainforest. 

Spelling Words

1. predator

2. decomposer

3. fungi

4. nutrients

5. liana

6. Amazon

7. nectar

8. endangered

9. deforestation

10. nocturnal

ST. PAUL'S SPIRIT SPREE - Feb. 17 - 26

SPRING FOOD DRIVE - FEB. 17-26
Spirit Spree Info for ECC/Lower School


Andrew Myler has a new blog! You will find it in the left column of our homepage: www.speds.org 


On February 23rd - Drs. Natasha and Kevin Burgert from Pediatrics Association will discuss tips on Healthy Screen Time and Monitoring Children's Technology Usage. There will be two parent sessions:
              PK-3rd -  5:30pm-6:15pm 
              4th-8th - 6:30pm-7:15pm.
Childcare will be available - register with Karen McDonald kmcdonald@speds.org if childcare is needed.