Monday, May 23, 2011

May 23rd

Tomorrow we have our field trip to the Museum of the Rockies and the Pioneer Museum. We will be gone all day tomorrow.

We will not be having anymore spelling tests for the year due to a hectic schedule. This week we have a field trip and no school Friday, next week we have a field trip and no school Monday, and then the following week the last day of school is Thursday and that is a half day.

The big news in 3rd grade is our play about Bozeman history. This play will be performed on June 6th and 7th. The performance on the 6th is in the morning and on the 7th it is in the afternoon. I will send home a letter on Thursday with more details. Your students have been given lines that they should be memorizing. Please help them with that. They also need to be coming up with costumes. We absolutely do NOT want you to buy something new. If your students have nothing to fit the part, have them dress in western wear (blue jeans and a white shirt, or if they have a button up that would be great).

I am sorry to not have written much on here, there has been so much happening at school as we wrap up this GREAT year!

Tuesday, May 10, 2011

Tuesday May 10

Hi Parents,

I wanted to let you know I will be out starting Thursday, until Wednesday of next week. My Grandma passed away and I will be going to her funeral.

There was a permission slip that went home last night, and one that will go home tomorrow. Please send them back as soon as you can. Thank you. I am sorry to miss so many days in a row.

Monday, May 9, 2011

1. below
2. second
3. shiver
4. frozen
5. clever
6. writer
7. siren
8. cover
9. female
10. finish
11. tired
12. hemmed
13. twenty
14. focus
15. revise

Vocabulary from
Poppa’s New Pants
16. pallet
17. arthritis
18. crouched
19. mustering
20. limbs
21. haunting
22. scurried
23. sanctuary
24. knickers
25. draped

Here is the spelling list for this week.

There is no math homework tonight because your students took the end of the year assessment for the district. Some of them are not done yet. It was a longer test, so I wanted to give them a break from homework.

You should have gotten a field trip permission slip from your child when they got home. PLEASE fill that out and send it back with your student tomorrow. It is really important that I get the sack lunch from school count into Vicki tomorrow.

Hope you all are doing well. Thank you again for your help last week with the Character Banquet. I really believe that will be something your students will remember for the rest of their lives!

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

May 3rd

Here is the grading rubric for the character banquet if your students are working on the speeches at home. They have sometime to work on them in class but they might also want to be working on them at home to make sure they are done by Friday.
Name____________________

Rubric
Character Banquet Speeches

The following things are in your speech:
_______ Told in first person
_______ Character’s Name
_______ Title of the book you read
_______ Genre of the book your read
_______ Setting (where most of the story takes place)
_______ Summary of the book (beginning, middle, end, problem and solution)
_______ Recommendations

Oral Presentation
_______ Loud and Clear
_______ Made eye contact with our class
_______ Stood up straight and tall

Tonight's homework is all about conversions. We worked on that in class today and there is a guide at the bottom to help.

Monday, May 2, 2011

May 2nd

Hi Parents,

I know the post are becoming less and less frequent. I am sorry. There is so much to get done before the end of the year and there just doesn't seem to be enough hours in the day!

Spelling:
Spelling Review
1. two
2. to
3. too
4. people
5. spring
6. myself
7. everyone
8. brandish
9. uncle
10. sure
11. enough
12. able
13. because
14. strange
15. when


Challenge
16. entire
17. pardon
18. awful
19. salute
20. original
21. political
22. community
23. overwhelm
24. retaliate
25. audible


In reading this week, I will be taking the kids individually to do their end of the year Dibels scores.

Sometime this week we should be having Bob the Greenhouse Bus (it is being rescheduled because we were supposed to have it on Friday last week).

The character banquet is on Friday. Please send back the form stating what your child will bring to the banquet. Depending on how much food we get, we will probably let the children get hot lunch if they want to.

The Fun Run is on Thursday. Our running time is at the end of the day, I believe it is 2:30-3:10 but I have to double check on that.

Please email me or call if you have any questions about anything going on in this BUSY month. I will be happy to answer all of your questions. Thank you for your patients and support!