Hope all the kids enjoyed their snow day and all the parents had safe travels over the weekend. There are a lot of announcements this week. Please take a look at the information below and mark your calendars. :)
*Marion Pre-school open house- tonight. If you have a child ready to start preschool, please look at the flyer coming home today abut the open house being held tonight.
*Book Orders due tomorrow (1/25/12)! :)
*No School on Friday- Teachers' have in-service meetings all day.
*No Spelling/ Word Wall words this week. Spelling and Word Wall will resume next week!
*Social Studies test next Monday, January 30th. Study guide will go home on Wednesday, January 25th.
*Emerson Barn Dance- rescheduled for Friday, February 3rd.
*Emerson Elementary FUNdraisers are going home today. If your child has attended Emerson before this year, this is the same as last year. Students are asked to collect money from people they know. 100% of the money raised goes back to Emerson. Envelopes are due Friday, February 10th.
Math-
This week we will continue to discuss time. We started talking about elapsed time this morning. We will practice time through Thursday, complete a review of time and money, and have a unit test next Tuesday. This week I will give the
January time tests for addition, subtraction, multiplication, and
division the week of the 23rd. Goals for 3rd graders currently is 100
correct problems in 5 minutes on addition and subtraction (50 in 2 1/2
minutes) as well as 80 facts correct in 5 minutes on multiplication (40
in 2 1/2 minutes).
Reading-
This week we will read The Streets are Free by
Kurusa. This story is based on a true story about hoe neighbors in a poor
district in Caracas, Venezuela join together to build a much-needed playground.
The children’s inspiration and the adult’s cooperation are equally important in
coming up with a solution to the problem.
Writing- This
week we continued to study the rain forest and discuss our animal reports.
The kids are so interested in this topic that we have just kind of taken it and
ran with it. Next week we will spend a lot of time collecting information for
our animal reports and other animals of the rainforest.
We will be working on rainforest based topics during writing for the next month or so. :)
Social Studies-
The students are finishing up their Map Champs Atlas'. They will complete a study guide tomorrow, which should also arrive home tomorrow. Please take time to review the study guide with your child as it will contain ALL the answers on their Social Studies test on Monday.
A look a head-
* I will send home names for Valentine's in tomorrow's brown envelopes. Please do not yet send these to school with your child. Letters about the Valentine's party will go home next week.
*Early dismissal Wednesday, February 8th.
Valentine's Party Tuesday, February 14th.
No School Friday, February 17th. Teachers will be working on 2nd Trimester report cards.
Have a great week!
Mrs. Jodie Yuska
