June 8, 2009

Third Grade Weekly Newsletter

Dear Parents and Students,

It's really here-the last days of school! I will do my best to give you a sense of what these last days will be like in our classroom.

There is NO mass on Tuesday.  Our final "All School" Mass will be held on Wednesday at 8:00 am.

There will be Ice cream sundaes for those who preordered and available to purchase for $2 on Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. in the courtyard. This event is sponsored by the future 8th grade class.

Dismissal on Wednesday is at 11:00 a.m.

We will spend a big portion of Tuesday cleaning up our classroom, lockers, etc. If possible please send a bucket and rag with your child. A roll of paper toweling would be greatly appreciated as well!!!!

Curriculum Highlights for the week;

Reading/Language Arts-  Perform mini-plays for fluency, and share commercial scripts  Grammar- Writing-Writing a letter to the 4th grade teacher and an Advice Booklet to next year's class.

Spelling-  There are no more words for the year!!!

Religion- Learn about items in a church worship space.  

Math-Math games if time permits.

Science-Wrap up unit on Insects

Social Studies-Wrap up unit on Government

Art- Father's Day craft

                                            Bonus:JOKE OF THE WEEK.     

Earn an extra credit point by reading this newsletter and trying to answer the following joke/riddle; Email or write your answer to me for Monday.

Here are the answers to last week's riddle;Why is the letter A like a flower? A bee always follows it!

Here are some goofy book titles and authors for summer reading. (just kidding!);

Learn to Swim in Thirty Seconds, by Bea A. Fish

Beach Vacations in the U.S., by Yul B. Sandy

The Cookout Cookbook, by Burntoo A. Crisp

How to Treat Poison Ivy, by I.M. Itchy

                                                   Have a Great Summer                

                                                           Mrs. Parks   

20 words from the list of 100 most commonly misspelled words

1. because

2. there

3. again

4. they

5. where

6. were

7. our

8. know

9. you're

10. friend

11. really

12. then

13. people

14. through

15. beautiful

16. about

17. first

18. family

19. pretty

20. favorite

words in orange are vocabulary words