The Wonderful World of Third Grade – Final Edition!

5-29 through 6-1

It is with a heavy heart I write my last newsletter of the year.
I have cherished each and every day that I have spent with your children,
And appreciate the trust and faith that you placed in our school and in me.

The children have grown both socially and academically this year.
I am so proud of their achievement and progress.

My time a Sts. Peter and Paul school has been a truly amazing period in my life.
I thank you all for letting me be a part of your family over the past six years.
Although my life is transitioning into a new phase,
I will always hold close the time I have spent here in the Third Grade and the
six classes of children I have been honored to teach.

You will be missed,
 God Bless…

Kimberly Bryant


Our week, short but sweet:

Tuesday – Field Day – Please dress appropriately for our day.  Tennis shoes only, not tank tops, and shorts must be no shorter than 4 inches above the knee. 

Wednesday – We will have our awards ceremony for the school at 9:30.  Students in Third Grade will be given awards in class on Thursday afternoon from me.

Friday – Mass & 10:00 dismissal.

I will be passing out report cards and an end of the year gift on Friday.  Please make sure that your child is in attendance, as I want to spend my last few days enjoying all my students to the fullest.

In reading we will be focused on National Geographic Explorer.  We will be reading and completing the smart board lessons that compliment the articles.  Please keep the reading habit continuing throughout the summer.  Students need to continue to read to help avoid the dreaded “summer slide”!  Twenty minutes a day is ideal.  I will send home a few incentives from Scholastic and Book It to help motivate.  Also please do not forget about the summer reading program at the Doylestown Library.



In math we will be reviewing multiplication and division with some learning games.  I will also be introducing a new game from Scholastic at www.kakooma.com. 
Students will be bringing home a flier.  Also please remember that IXL is available for all the students through the summer.

Students will review Pentecost and the Rosary in Religion.

In Science we will be completing our Simple Machines project on Wednesday and presenting them to the class on Thursday.

In Social Studies we will have our final payday and shopping of the year.  Students will wrap up their economics unit by Thursday.

In Language Arts we are finishing Tuck Everlasting.  Students will watch the movie and compare and contrast the book to the movie version.

Have a Blessed week and a wonderful summer!

The Wonderful World of Third Grade

5-21 through 5-25

REMEMBER
We will be celebrating a First Communion Mass on Monday.
Students must be dressed for Mass.
NO SHORTS and NO DRESS DOWN PASSES ALLOWED!

We will however have a missions dress down day on Friday  -- Students can dress down for a $1 missions donation.

A HUGE and special thank you to the parents who
Spent Friday afternoon working at our Wacky Olympics.
It was a wonderful, energetic and fun learning experience. 
Again, thank you for your hard work and effort in helping to make it a great day for our students!! We couldn’t have done it without you!


•    We are entering our last full week of school.  Wow, it is hard to believe that our year is coming to an end.  What a wonderful year it has been, learning, faith, fun and friendship, who could ask for more?  I understand that we are all very busy this time of year so I am working very hard this week to send home little to no homework.

•     I will be doing Simple Solutions Science and Grammar with the students during class, those books will not be coming home again.  I will be trying to get through the math also, however you may see that book come home with a little work left to finish. 

•    In Math we will be finishing chapter 14.  The quiz will be on Friday.  Students will also have two more chances to pass the 6-minute multiplication timed-test. Memorizing these facts is imperative to their future success in math.  We have been working on this for so long, I am hoping this will be the week that it all comes to fruition.  Please spend a little time on those flash cards!   IXL this week is not required but will be counted as extra credit in math if your child wishes to complete thirty to sixty minutes.

•    Reading Journal will be required as my wish is that nightly reading is a habit that has been instilled in my students, rather than a chore!  In reading we will be reading about the Titanic.  Students will focus on sequence of events and summarizing.

•    In Language Arts we will be working with figurative language.  Students will be focusing on idioms this week. 


•     In Science we will be working with inclined planes, friction and simple machines.  Students will be working in groups to create marble mazes that contain the 5 simple machines we have been working with.

•    In Social Studies we will be reviewing map skills and students will also be introduced to State of Ohio facts with a coloring book from the state. 


Have a Fantastic Week!

The Wonderful World of Third Grade

5-7 through 5-11

Remember that there will be no school for students on Friday!  Enjoy!


If your child has a summer birthday I will send an email letting you know what day
we have marked off for them to celebrate!

Simple Solutions this week are lessons 101 through 104!  We will not take the
corresponding tests this week.

Spelling this week is Unit #30 and the words are posted on Spelling City.  This is a
review unit and the test will be on Thursday.

Students have selected their books for the biography/autobiography reports.  The
reports will be done in the form of a poster.  Students who have finished their
books have been given the posters.  As soon as the others arrive in the mail you
child will bring home their copy.  Students will only be given one poster, please
help your child hang on to it!  Final reports will be due on Friday May 17th.

In Math this week we will be working with lines, angles and shapes.

In Science we will be reviewing Life Cycles.  Our caterpillars went into the
chrysalis stage this week.  We hope to have six Painted Lady Butterflies in about 12
days.  We will also be watching a Praying Mantis pod hatch. 

In Language Arts students will be applying all of their knowledge of language and
words to create cards and poems.

In Reading students will enjoy a story exploring if animals think or not.  It is an
interesting selection that really causes a debate among the students.  This
correlates well with our movie Chimpanzee.

Our field trip to the Magical Theater is on Thursday.

Students will be working with the fourth grade to create posters for their country
in the Olympics unit.  Thank you to our parent volunteers, more information will
follow.  If you would like to help there is still time to let us know!

Have a wonderful week!

The Wonderful World of Third Grade

4-30 through 5-4

Wow, I can"t believe that we are entering our last month of school.  How time
flies when you are having fun!  We still are working hard and I have a lot I would
like to do, so plan for your child to get the most out of our school year right up
to the very end! 

Tomorrow students will be walking to the park to run their mile with the 8th grade
class.  Students will wear regular school uniform and change into gym clothes before
they depart.

In Religion students will finish Chapter 17, and take the quiz on Wednesday.  Mark
your calendar, as Third Grade will be participating in the Mass on Friday, May 18th.
If your child has a summer birthday please pick a day within the next three weeks
that you would like to celebrate!

Simple Solutions this week are lessons 97 through 100!

Spelling this week is Unit #29 and the words are posted on Spelling City.

For the month of May we will be writing a research report on a biography or
autobiography of your child's choice. Our library has a nice selection and we
will check books out on Thursday.   We will work on these a little in class, but
some will also be done at home.  The book or books your child reads will be their
May Accelerated Reader requirement.  Final reports will be due on Friday May 17th.

In Math this week we will be finishing our Chapter 7 on probability and data.  The
test will be on Thursday.

In Science we will be finishing our unit on Volcanoes and we will explode them on
Friday. (If all goes well!)

In Language Arts we will be working with Figurative Language.  Students will be
creating flipbook learning about Consonance, Assonance, Alliteration, Onomatopoeia,
Simile, Metaphor and Personification.

In Reading we will be finishing our Unit with a “Time for Kids” about
J.J. the whale.  We will review generalizations and also cause and effect.

Have a wonderful week!

                                            The Wonderful World of Third Grade

                                                       4-23 through 4-27



Field Trip permission slips are needs ASAP.  The Chimpanzee Movie I need by tomorrow
and the others as soon as possible.  Thanks you, I know it is a lot at one time!

Spelling unit is #28, the words are on Spelling City and the test will be on Friday.

Remember that 30 minutes of IXL is due by the end of the night on Friday each week.

Students are required to read and pass the test for one chapter book of their choice
for the month of April.

This week the students will be introduced to finding generalizations.  We will be
reading a story about the Blue Whale and focusing on generalizations and sequence of
events.

We are continuing to focus on language and poetry throughout the month on April.
Students are learning about many different styles of poetry.

In math we will be working on probability.  Students will be creating tree diagrams
and working through probability experiments.

In religion we will continue to focus on the Easter season.  Students will be
exploring the Resurrection.  We will also be doing a few mission projects this week.

In science students will be introduced to different types of landforms and the
forces that change them, both quickly and slowly.  Students will also be looking at
diversity and life science
as we get ready for the Chimpanzee movie on Thursday.

Students will be creating volcanoes on Friday for our science lab.

Social studies this week will introduce a Summer Olympics unit the students will be
starting.  Our economics unit will be continuing through the end of the school year.


Please remember as the weather (hopefully) gets warmer, that no shorts are allowed on
Mass Days.



                                 May you have a blessed and peaceful week!

The Wonderful World of Third Grade

4-16 through 4-20

Happy Earth Week!

Our Week:

If you are ordering from Scholastic this month the orders are due tomorrow.  There will be one more Scholastic order in the month of May.

Thursday will be a Missions dress-down day to celebrate Earth Day.  Third Grade will wear the Earth Day shirts we created last week. 
All of the donations will be donated to a Parish family that lost many items in a house fire due to smoke damage.

Students will be learning about the rain forests through books and movies as we pledge to take care of our wonderful planet earth!

Third Grade finished our fifth Chapter book of the year, Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIHM, as a class!  We will be watching the movie version this week to compare and contrast the book with the film.

This week’s Simple Solutions are lessons #89 through #92.

Spelling Unit #27 is posted on Spellingcity.com and the test will be on Friday.

In reading we will be finishing the National Geographic Magazine for the month of April.  Students will read focus on vocabulary and comprehension. 

In language arts we will be continuing our celebration of National Poetry month.  Students will hear many poems and work on creating their flipbooks.

In Math we will finish Chapter 6 with our test on Thursday.

In Religion students are finishing Chapter 16, with a quiz on Wednesday.

In Social Studies we are continuing our economics unit.  This week students will choose how to use their flexible income.

In Health we will begin our unit on development and the body systems.  This week students will create a timeline and review the lifecycle.

The Wonderful World of Third Grade

4-9 through 4-13

Remember that students will need a white t-shirt and a donation (if possible) of fabric paint for our Earth Day shirts – I am hoping to have all that we need by Wednesday the 11th so that we can paint on Thursday the 12th!  Thank you!


Our Week:

This week’s Simple Solutions are lessons #85 through #88.

Spelling Unit #26 is posted on Spellingcity.com and the test will be on Friday.

We will have a Science Test over chapter #6 on Thursday.  This week we will review our science chapter, create Earth Day shirts and we will also be creating animal track fossils for a science lab.

In reading we will be focusing on vocabulary, comprehension and sequence of events with our National Geographic Magazine.

In language arts we will be celebrating National Poetry month.  We will be reading Hate that Cat, and creating a flipbook that will introduce the students to many different types of poetry.  This week students will be learning about Haiku, Couplets, Cinquain, and acrostic poems.

In Math we will be working with line plots, graphing and ordered pairs.  Students will also continue to sharpen their multiplication and division facts.  Those students who have yet to master their multiplication tables through 12 will need to do so quickly.  Please continue to drill and practice at home, as memorization is the key.

Students will need to take and pass on AR test for the month of April.

In Religion we will be celebrating the Easter Season.  This week we will examine Jesus’ victory over death.

In Social Studies students will be working with their checkbooks, learning about fixed expenses, and learning to stay within their personal budgets.

In Health we will be finishing Chapter Five by learning about food safety.

I hope you all had a wonderful Spring Break
and
a very blessed Easter!