May 21, 2021

 Can you believe it? This school year is coming to a close. It always seems so far away in August but then arrives suddenldly, and we wonder where the time went. The students are finishing jobs about biomes, peacemakers, and environmental scientists. All four math operations were practiced as an end of the year review. Grammar jobs have practiced parts of speech for all grades and parts of a sentences for third graders.  Probability was intoduced with words and ratios. It is "very likely" that the students are ready for vacations. Remember that school dismisses at 1:00 on Thursday, May 27th. We wish you all a safe and enjoyable summer. 

May 7, 2021

Happy May! If you celebrated May Day (May 1),  May the Fourth be with you (Star Wars fans), Cinco de Mayo (May 5), National Nurses Day (May 6), or you will be celebrating Mother's Day (May 9), this has been a full and busy week. Our classroom has also been busy researching another biome (tropical rainforest), more about Colonial times (famous people), and environmental science (conserving natural resources. The students are revisiting creative story writing using characters, setting, plot, and conclusion. We have enjoyed seeing them use their imaginations. New lessons have introduced probability, possessive nouns, and customary weight equivalences. Speaking of equivalences, we have also had extention jobs for congruency, similarity, and equivalence regarding geometric shapes. This was the last week for spelling tests and the last homework is due Friday, May 14. We thank you very much for your recognition and generosity during Teacher Apprecition Week. Hopefully we will have more nice weather to finish out the school year. Happy Mother's Day! 

April 19 - 23, 2021

 We had a good week wilth 3rd grade testing and lessons. Colonial Life, Biomes, and Environmental Sciences are the themes for cultural lessons. A fun geometry job involved shapes that changed postions with slides, flips, and turns that were labeled as transitions, reflections, and rotations. Presentations were also given for metric liquid measurements and for fractions relating to percentages. Third graders are learning about parts of a sentence (subject and predicate), second graders are practicing recognizing conjunctions, and first graders are labeling adverbs. Everyone is moving along with spelling words so remember to check their Google Classroom page for updated lists and to practice new words for Thursday tests. Have a safe and enjoyable weekend.

April 9, 2021

 My, my, how time flies. The 3rd quarter ended, we had Spring Break, and the school narrowly survived a tornado since the last post. The students did reviews and finished cultural studies and have now started new lessons on biomes, liquid measurement, circles, and persuasive writing. They continue to practice division, plurals, and reading charts. Third graders will be taking standardized tests next week. This is their first experience so we want everyone to be calm and help them use this time to see what tests are like without a lot of pressure. Everyone take care and have a safe and enjoyable weekend. 

March 8-12, 2021

 As we wind up the third quarter, everyone is working hard.  We also work hard to keep our voices low and our movement contained during work time so everyone can focus. Students will be choosing a woman in science to research and a state or country to find natural resources and crops. They also answered a reading comprehension activity about ocean waves. We continue to practice charts and graphs. Our poem style this week is acrostic and plural lessons are extending to -ys and -ies rules. Remember to practice memorization of math facts including all four operations as we give lessons on division. Hopefully the warm weather will stay with us for a while. Have a nice weekend.

March 1-5, 2021

 I guess Mr. Groundhog didn't see his shadow and he didn't go back to sleep for six more weeks because it seems like spring is here with the weather we have had this week. It is especially nice to end the week with warm weather and to go outside for recess. We even enjoyed popsicles on Thursday to celebrate Read Across America Week and our character parade. The students are very involved with life cycles in science, stamping economic geography symbols on a map of Alabama, and learning about important women in history. Our poetry study was kicked off with "I Am" poems last week and diamante poems this week. Looking forward to continued good weather and good work. Remember to come to the Book Fair next week.

February 22 -26

What a beautiful day on which to end February. YEAH!   Everyone worked hard to finish their jobs. We had some new lessons on economic geography in Alabama, the water cycle, and African-American artists. First graders were introduced to prepositions. Second graders wrote sentences with adverbs. Third graders were introduced to interjections. Measuring angles has been fun remembering to use the inner or outer row of numbers starting from zero to get an accurate degree. Even though it wasn't a Leap Year, Ms. Genie gave a little lesson about how an extra day is added to the calendar once every four years and that is her birthday so we had doughnuts. Hopefully Spring is on its way and we can get outside more and more.