The Beginning of a Busy Week!

Hi Everyone!  I hope your Monday went well.  It seemed to go by super fast.  I want to remind you of some special events coming up this week.

 

Thursday...

Is our Symphony Field Trip.  Buses leave at 10:30 am.  The performance is from 11:30-12:15.  When we get back to the school we will go directly to lunch.  Students may either bring a sack lunch or eat chicken nuggets from the cafe.  At 1:30, the entire school will be participating in a school wide assembly until 2:15.  If your child did not participate in the Dec. assembly, they will participate on Thursday.  Since, the dress code for our Symphony Field Trip is "nice clothes", all students are welcome to bring a change of shoes for the assembly.  If girls are dressed in a skirt or dress, they may want to wear shorts underneath.  After the assembly ends at 2:15, we will return to the classroom to hand out Valentine's and enjoy our PTA provided treats.  The Valentine festivities will officially end at 3:00.

Thank you...

For all of the donations for Valentine boxes.  We will be decorating our boxes on Wednesday afternoon. 

Have a great week!

Multiplication. By Zeke.

This week we started doing multiplication.It is really easy when you use a 100's chart because you could find patterns which help you with a problem.Some problems are 9x9=81 and 7x6=42.We also learned how to use pictures to show multiplication.The times sign means "groups of" and that is what we have done so far.

Biographies

This week we learned about biographies.They are books about respected people like Dr.King. That is biographies

Friday, February 1, 2013

I hope your week has been as fun and productive as ours was. I am truly so lucky to be able to come to Hawthorn every day and work with these amazing children! 

Mark your calendar for the following important dates:

February 5th: Family Fitness Night at Lakeview (5:00- 6:30)

February 7th: American Girl Tea in the Hawthorn Media Center(3:30-4:30)

February 14th:  3rd Grade Symphony Field Trip  ( buses leave at 10:30/performance at 11:30 am)  and  Valentine Celebration (1:30-2:30)

February 18th:  No School.  Staff Profession Development Day

February 26th:  McTeacher Night @ McDonald's on Barry Road  (4;00-8:00)

February 27th:  Read Across America Celebration Begins (more info to come)

 

 

With Valentine's Day quickly approaching, we are in need of cereal or cracker boxes to create Valentine mailboxes.  Please send your child with a box no later than Friday, February 8th.  We will begin our project to decorate them the week of Feb. 11th. 

 

February 14th will be a busy day for us!  We will be gone in the morning to the KC Symphony and return just in time to eat a sack lunch before the Valentine's assembly begins at 1:30.  Please send your child with a sack lunch on this day. 

 

Reminder:  If you have not yet purchased a 3rd grade T-shirt for your child, please send the money to school on Monday.  This will be the day we send our T-shirt orders to the manufacturer.  T-shirts should be in the 3rd week of February. 

 

Looking forward into next week, our Encore schedule is as follows:  Monday: PE; Tues.: Art; Wed.: Library; Thurs.: Music (Bring your recorder.); Fri.: PE. 

 

Have a great weekend!

 

-Jodi



How-Tos !

This week we have been working on How-To's! One of the  How-To's was how to make a duck tape pencil holder that was raquels how to.   Sarahs  How-To was how to make a duck tape purse.    Rilees How-to was hoe to make a dirt and worms.  Jillians was how to make a smore.  Isdoras was how-to plan a birth day party!

Friday January 25, 2013

Happy Friday! Even though this was a short week of school, we were able to pack a great deal of learning into it. We have ended our money unit and began exploring the concept of multiplication. We will investigate equal groups and arrays as a way to deepen our understanding of multiplication before I begin assessing multiplication fluency. However, students are always invited to practice their computational fluency on Mangahigh.com or multiplication.com.

In reading we have begun studying the genre of Biographies. Please ask your child about some of the famous people they have been reading about.

Also this week, we finished our study of Martin Luther King Jr. by creating Nobel Peace Prizes that explained how MLK changed the world. All of the students did a fantastic job.

Looking forward into next week, I'd like to ask for each child to begin bringing in an empty cereal box, which we will be decorating and using on Valentine's Day. We will be exchanging Valentine's on this day. If you wish for your child to participate in the exchange, they must bring a Valentine for every child. We have 27 students. I will send a list of names next week.

Our Encore schedule for the week is: Mon.-Music; Tues.-PE; Wed.-Art; Thurs.-Library;
Fri.- Music.

Have a great weekend!
Jodi

Time for kids

In time for kids it was telling us about MLK Jr's life and about people's heroes like Alica keys and Gabbie douglas  .  Also in a page it was talking about pandas like how there is no bamboo.  Also  it was talking about MLK  Jr's  statue.