No homework this week!

Due to MCAS testing this Tuesday and Thursday, there will be no homework this week. Just get lots of rest, and eat yummy breakfasts!

Check out the Gazette!

Wow, what a great article in the Gazette tonight. Check out www.gazettenet.com - front page!!!

Homework for week of May 6, 2013

This our final week before math MCAS, so our homewok is a packet covering skills review. Your child can either do each night's homework that night, or all at once, but it is all due Friday. Also due Friday is the Music Maker project - looking forward to seeing (and hearing) all of instruments.

Upcoming MCAS practice

The third grade math MCAS is Tuesday, May 14, and Thursday, May 16. One skill that students could always benefit from practicing is their times tables. Try quizzing each other in the car, or even make a game of it. You could play the traditional "War" with cards, but the person who multiplies the two cards together first wins both. I will send home some other game ideas for practicing in the homework folder tomorrow.

Poetry Cafe

Wow! What a night! I am so thankful for the wonderful families who attended the poetry cafe, brought snacks, equipment, came early/stayed late, and enjoyed a wonderful evening of third grade poetry. This night couldn't have been done without all of you. Our focus this week was getting ready for this evening, so just a reminder, we do have MCAS practice homework - it is a packet focused on geometry. It is due Friday. Thanks again!

Amherst Cinema Permission Slip

A permission slip for the See, Hear, Feel Film Program at Amherst Cinema went home today. The field trip is Thursday, April 25, two weeks from today. I challenged the students to have their permission slips signed tonight in order to receive the extra recess they have been requesting. Please sign and return tomorrow. Thank you!

Catch Up

Ahhh, my poor neglected blog, I am so sorry! I am vowing to blog daily to update you with class activities and assignments. This week, we are focusing on finishing up our Color Poems Poetry Booklets, which should be coming home with your child when they are finished. I would love to have them back for the Poetry Cafe night April 30, to display for guests. In addition to the color poems, students are compiling the poems they want to publish in the classroom poetry book and choosing which ones they would like to read at Poetry Cafe.

We are also working very hard on fractions and MCAS review in math workshop.

We are discussing themes and historical time periods in our Historical Fiction Unit in Reading Workshop. We just finished reading "Bud, Not Buddy," and we are now reading "Number the Stars."

Community Meeting is this week, and next week is Spring Vacation!