Apr
Week 30 Recap
Posted in Classroom, Field Trips, Home Projects | No Comments »Hi Everyone! There is important field trip and SAGE information below! Please read carefully and mark your calendars!
Happy April! Hope you all had a great Easter and Spring Break! I’m going to start with all the important updates and reminders as we will have an eventful week back from Spring Break.
Upcoming Week:
*Please return all white colored permission slips for the Hill Aerospace Museum by Wednesday at the latest. I have extras if your child misplaced it.
Tuesday- Class pictures and Spring pictures. If your child wasn’t here at the beginning of the year they need to get their picture done for the yearbook. If you wish to purchase your child’s school picture that is up to you. Also, if you want to your child to get Spring pictures taken this is also that opportunity. At 2:20pm our class will get their class picture done. This is a picture that won’t need to be purchased it is for the yearbook.
Wednesday- 3rd grade parents! This is our first SAGE testing day. It will be the ELA test and it will be in the Library from 12:00pm-3:00pm. Students are not timed on their tests. Please help me by helping them understand that they can take their time and if they need breaks or don’t finish they can pause their test and pick back up on another day. This is true if your student happens to be absent on this day. There will be makeup dates. The nice thing about this year is that I don’t have to proctor the tests. Ms. Megan and Mr. James will be monitoring most of the tests so the teachers can stay back with the 1st and 2nd graders.
SAGE testing dates are as scheduled for our class:
- SAGE ELA- April 11th 12pm-3:00pm Library
- SAGE Writing- May 1st 9:00-12:00pm Computer Lab
- SAGE Math- May 7th 9:00-12:00pm Library. *I will not be here on this day.
Our class has a 3rd grade privilege and that is to have breakfast on the day of testing. Since our first one isn’t until noon, we will focus on the other 2 tests that are in the morning. If any of the 3rd grade parents (or even 1st and 2nd grade parents too!) would like to help contribute to the breakfasts and help cook on those mornings, please let me know. I make scrambled eggs for the 3rd graders, but the other items are needed for donation. As we get closer to the May dates I will get “menu ideas” from the 3rd graders and we’ll get a sign up ready!
Please make sure you 3d grader gets a good night’s sleep Tuesday night and has a good breakfast. Students may pack a snack to have during testing and they may bring their water bottles.
Thursday- Spring Trash Pick Up Outing! I need a few parents to help chaperone students (email me and let me know) around the school property and nearby neighborhoods. The Fall pick up was a great success and rain or shine we will do our Spring pick up Thursday afternoon. If you are looking to help chaperone please be at our classroom at 12:45 at the latest. This will give us the time to make sure both our class and Ms Steph’s class are divided and ready to go. Groups will return back to MMA at 2:30 and put their trash bags away and restore their classrooms.
*Please pack weather permitting attire just in case! Umbrellas, rain boots, sweaters, gloves, hats, and a waterproof jacket may be needed!
Friday- Hill Aerospace Museum day! Please let Katie James (misskt2558@yahoo.com), our room mother, know if your child needs a ride. We are meeting at the Aerospace Museum at 9:30am. Those who have made carpools or are driving their own child can meet us there at the museum, but please let me know if you are choosing this option and who you have with you so I know who not to wait around for at MMA. If your child does need a ride, please let Katie know if you have an extra seat and can take a child. Carpools made through our room mom who need to meet at MMA need to be in the North Shore parking lot at 9:15am at the latest. We will be out at 9:30am to make sure everyone can find their ride. Parents, please let Katie James know your child’s ride situation by Wednesday 5pm at the latest. This will give me the time to look over who is going with who. Students who choose to come back to MMA after the field trip is over will be leaving the Museum at 1pm.
*Please pack weather permitting attire just in case! Umbrellas, rain boots, sweaters, gloves, hats, and a waterproof jacket may be needed! A sack lunch is also needed as we will be eating lunch at the Museum.
April’s Project: This project is an in class project on a seed experiment. We will be talking about kindness and again and how there is power is kind words and negative words. We will be testing out how a plant can grow when it receives kind words vs a control plant that won’t receive any kindness at all. The students will be watching their level’s plant over April and partly into May. Students will log observations and do a writing piece in the end. This is the last project of the year! Students who don’t keep up with their in class work on this project will have to finish up at home.
Looking at April and May calendaring: 3rd grade Upper El shadowing dates TBA.
*May Spirit week and end of school activities TBA
April 10th- Class pictures 2:20pm
April 11th- SAGE ELA 12:00-3:00
April 12th- Spring trash pick up 1:00-2:30
April 13th- Hill Aerospace Museum 9:30-1:00
April 19th- In school presentation: Scales and Tales bird show after lunch
April 20th- Early Release 1pm
April 26th- Discovery Gateway Museum and Planetarium Field Trip. UTA train will be rode.
May 1st- SAGE Writing 9:00-12:00 and 3rd grade breakfast. Breakfast from 8:20-8:50
May 3-7- Ms. Kaley out of town
May 7th- SAGE Math 9:00-12:00 and 3rd grade breakfast. Breakfast from 8:20-8:50
May 10th- 3rd Grade Party 1:30
May 11th- Eat lunch with Steph’s class
May 17th-21st- Ms. Kaley out of town
May 18th- Eat lunch with Steph’s class
May 22nd-24th- PTC 1pm Early Outs
May 25th- Last day of school for students Early release 1pm
Have a great rest of your Sunday and upcoming week!
Ms. Kaley